Notes From Training Camp 2025

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(07-24-2025, 09:53 PM)007BengalsFan Wrote: Driving downtown today I saw several crews of construction workers throughout downtown with the sun beating down on them with many of these guys being older and obviously not in the best physical shape.  If these guys can work outside 8 hours a day, I would hope young athletes in the prime of their life would be able to handle the same weather.  If these athletes have not prepared for this type of weather, they lose the right to say being a football player is a year around job they have to work at because they obviously were not putting in the effort to get ready for training camp.  My guess is a bunch of these guys did little to no conditioning to get ready for camp.

OMG.... this conversation has gone from silly to ludicrous. For starters, every construction crew I have ever seen has one guy working and 8 standing around waiting to rotate. And these athletes are not just distance running at a set pace for a set distance, they are going from full stop to top gear as fast as they can, and expecting their leg muscles to not only go from 0-100, but also to stop on a dime, cut, then accelerate again. It's not even the same ballpark.