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Let’s repeat that. During the 17-week regular season, teams will have a maximum of only 14 padded practices.
More specifically, teams can have 11 padded practices during the first 11 weeks of the season, with two padded practices permitted in a given week only once. Then, for the final six weeks of the season, a total of three padded practices may be conducted.
In-season padded practices would plummet under new CBA | ProFootballTalk
Consider this comment from Belichick in the early days of last year's training camp, "A big part of camp [is] going through it day by day and putting your team under stress and seeing how they react to those situations – judge their conditioning and staying power, mental and physical toughness, and durability. I think that’s an important part of getting your team ready for the 16-game regular-season schedule that we have to face."
Here are some quick-hits on how Belichick approached training camp in 2010:
1. Four of the first five days of camp featured two-a-day practices, all in full pads.
2. Joint practices with the Saints were held with one two-a-day session. Both practices were in full pads.
3. Belichick put the team through 17 straight practices (12 full pads*, 3 walkthroughs, 2 in shorts/light shoulder pads) before giving players a day off.
Eliminating 2-a-days & its effect on Pats - New England Patriots Blog - ESPN Boston
Ten years no opt out.
So the players gained nothing in the stall but time to digest the deal as agreed to...
It appears to me that the players gained getting paid for offseason workout bonus money.
I thought I heard quite a while ago that this was likely to be paid.
In the last couple of weeks there has been some discussion about whether or not dead cap money will be counted against this year's cap. Specifically, some (Jets fans, for example) have been stating/hoping dead cap money would not count against the cap based on the theory that this is a new CBA; others have assumed the status quo will continue and dead cap money will count against the cap.
Has anybody seen or heard anything definitive on the subject? There are some articles out about teams that are over the cap, but I haven't seen anything about whether or not this (dead cap money) is still the case in this new CBA. The reason I ask is that it will make a big difference for certain teams, such as the Jets.
Mo - the pdf cited elsewhere here specificly EXCLUDES dead cap proration into 2011 for players cut by March 11th. A windfall for the Jets that by strange coincidence they had taken full advantage of. Wonders never cease.
http://assets.espn.go.com/pdf/2011/0725/nfl_2011_fa_rules01.pdf
Read Section 5 b 1