LA Rams News: 2020 season shaping up like crash course

LA Rams News: Delaying 2020 season to last possible moment is transforming preseason into a football crash course

The LA Rams have a lot to do in an ever-shrinking amount of time. We’ve shared several reports today updating various aspects of the NFL season. But perhaps nothing quite drives the point home over the frantic pace with which NFL teams must get ready for the 2020 NFL season than this twitter mention from NFL reporter Albert Beer:

Data shared to team docs in the aftermath of the 2011 lockout showed a significant league-wide uptick in Achilles and hamstring injuries. That's what the committee is trying to avoid.

So it might not wind up being 3 weeks, but there will be an acclimation period. (2/2)
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) July 1, 2020

Getting players ready for an NFL season is not just reading a brochure or a day of tossing the football around at a local park or community athletic field. It is a defined and regimented process of building a group of players into synchronized units. Each player must know his role, know the roles of his teammates, and trust everyone to do their jobs.

No margin for error

Right now, the timetable for the 2020 NFL season is pretty optimistic and very aggressive. With training camps beginning on July 28, 2020, the NFL will have approximately three weeks before preseason games begin. That is with a shortened two-game preseason.

Three weeks is not much time to train players. But don’t look for pads to go on quickly. The NFL will likely enforce a “no-pads” acclimation period upon all NFL teams. In order to prevent player injuries, teams will be forced to practice without pads or helmets to allow athletes bodies to familiarize themselves once more to the repetitious nature of football-related activities.

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That could hamper any innovations intended for the Rams this year. What the team may need to settle for is a diluted defensive and offensive playbooks. Over time, the team can put in more plays, and expand options on existing ones. But for now? Getting ready for the 2020 NFL season is quite challenging enough.

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