What to Expect as Training Camp Opens

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With the rookies and veterans hitting the field running today, football season is finally just around the corner.

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Slightly off topic but I figured this was as good a place as any to post it - Jim Donaldson of the Providence Journal has a column (dated tomorrow?) in which Bill Belichick speaks about the change in training camp today versus when he first started coaching.

Jim Donaldson: Belichick remembers when training camps were a real grind | New England Patriots | projo.com | The Providence Journal

But Belichick’s memory is long. He remembers vividly when he went to his first NFL training camp with the Baltimore Colts as a “special assistant,” just a few months after graduating from Wesleyan.

“When I came into the league in 1975,” he recalled, “we started camp July 5 and our first regular-season game was September 21, so it was two-and-a-half months of training camp. We had three scrimmages against the Redskins, and I don’t know how many two-a-days. It had to be 30. It was forever.

“It was all of July, all of August, and half of September. We played six preseason games. It was like a full season, and then a regular season.

“So, has training camp changed? They (the players) have no idea."