NFL Mini Camp Has Changed Throughout The Years I BMitch & Finlay

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BMitch and Tobi discuss the differences between NFL mini camps back when BMitch played vs today.

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00:00Have you seen a change in your time from when you were playing to where it is now

00:03in terms of the shape that guys come into training camp?

00:06Yeah, I think now guys are in shape more throughout the year.

00:11And I think when I got here, I can remember guys telling me,

00:15like Doc would tell me, like maybe when they first came into camp,

00:18they used to be in six, seven weeks of training camp.

00:21You know, they basically got in shape while in training camp.

00:23Yeah.

00:24But when I got here, I had Darren Art Monk who said that they took a week

00:28or two off, and then they got right back into it after the season was over.

00:32Start doing something, and then you're like the boxer that can be 140 all year

00:38probably has an advantage over the boxer that can have to lose all that weight

00:43to get to a point.

00:44Yeah.

00:44You know, you lose something when you're losing weight.

00:47You know, you might look better, be better in shape or whatever,

00:50but you do lose something when you drop down a lot of weight at a certain point.

00:54But what if you're walking around here at 145 pounds

00:56and you're boxing at 145?

00:59Other guy walking around at 180, he boxed at 145.

01:02You can't tell me you don't lose something when you lose 40 pounds.

01:03Yeah, you're comfortable in your shoes.

01:05So the guys today, they relatively stay in shape the whole time.

01:12Because let's be real, the way things are spread out,

01:16when do you really have an extended period of time to not do anything?

01:19It's true.

01:19It's funny, though.

01:20You see the paradigm of they're in better shape maybe year long,

01:24but then they also don't hit like they did in training camp 20 years ago.

01:28So the judges have noticed sometimes,

01:33of course, a lot of players.

01:34They're like, now you're up to you.

01:35No, you're up to you.

01:37And you're not the highest.

01:39So the judges have to take a look at them.

01:41There's another thing that they're doing with the judges.

01:43I'm the one that I have to take care of.

01:45There's another team that I'm going to talk about.

01:47You're up to me.

01:48We're in the right direction.

01:49And we're really looking forward.

01:51You're up to you.

01:51You're up to me.

01:52You're up to me.

01:53And I'm going to look in the right direction.

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