00:00NFL news and notes to end out our opening hour, but it is a day in July, which is a month of football.
00:07In fact, exactly two weeks from this very day, we will have our first football game, albeit a preseason one of the 2025 NFL campaign.
00:18It's the Hall of Fame game in Kenton, Ohio.
00:20The Chargers sent their veterans to training camp yesterday.
00:23The first team to have the vets report in plenty of teams yesterday and on Tuesday as well, sending those rookies to training camp.
00:32Basically, by next Wednesday, DRS, six days from right now, we're going to have every team reporting to training camp.
00:41We should have an update of who's in, who's not in training camp right now, right?
00:49I know we got the Chargers updates where the veterans came in.
00:53Did we get any rookies coming today?
00:55Like, did we get any, like, who's, like, in camp so I could start, like, building that, like, you know, we're all in business now.
01:00What about today?
01:01Here we go.
01:02Let's run through it.
01:04Let's run through the rookies that have already showed up.
01:06The Ravens.
01:07Yes.
01:07The Bills.
01:07Okay.
01:08I like it.
01:09The Broncos.
01:10The Lions.
01:11All right.
01:12Today, the Raiders show up as well.
01:14Ashton Jemey, favorite to an offensive rookie of the year.
01:17The Dolphins, the Giants, the Niners, the Seahawks, and then tomorrow, the Commanders.
01:25So, we've actually got a decent amount of the league.
01:27I didn't do the quick math as I was speaking, but I'd say at least 10 to 12 teams that are already sending their rookies to training camp.
01:34By the way, also, do we lose a little bit of luster now when we had the training camp, Ben?
01:39The reason I ask that is, like, growing up as a kid, just from my own perspective, the Philadelphia Eagles, they were at Westchester University, which is just out in, like, the Philadelphia suburbs, where they would go as a team, two and a half, three weeks, four weeks, and they would play there.
01:51Then, they went up to Lehigh, and they would go up to Bethlehem, PA, you know, take over the campus here, the outdoor practices.
01:57It was almost like a rite of passage, like you saw, like, they would put the cameras out in, like, the parking lots, and, like, okay, in comes Hollis Thomas, here's Donovan McNabb, here's Javon Curse, and they could see him, like, one by one go in.
02:09And they understood, like, these mega millionaires are, like, staying, like, unconditioned, under air-conditioned, like, you know, resident halls that college football players would be in or students would be in.
02:20It was almost like that rite of passage.
02:21You go away, and you come back as a team.
02:23Some teams still do go away for their camps, but the Philadelphia Eagles, just, like, 75% at least of the NFL, they just go into their own normal facility.
02:32Now, it does make sense from a dollar standard.
02:34Like, look, we have all the best equipment here.
02:35We don't have to transform a new war room up at the camp, and, you know, the combinations are much better.
02:40I understand that, but there was something about the camaraderie of we're going away for three weeks, and we're coming back as a football team that you sort of lose out on just a little bit.
02:48And also, like, I guess they're going home to, like, their family at night, which you didn't do that in camp.
02:53You were away for three weeks.
02:54It was just you and the boys for those three weeks.
02:58Yeah, it's a good point, DRS.
02:59Not many teams kind of go to a different site that is not their facility or their home ballpark, so to say.
03:05A couple of the teams that still do, the Steelers, they make their way to La Trobe each and every year at St. Vincent College.
03:11College, you have the Kansas City Chiefs that go on their way, as I try to find it, to Missouri Western State University.
03:18Who goes to Mankato?
03:20Do the bikes still go away?
03:21Like, because remember, they used to go, like, Mankato or something like that.
03:23Dallas goes still to the, like, wine country.
03:25I know that.
03:26Dallas still goes.
03:26Not a lot of teams do it anymore.
03:27Yeah, Dallas still goes to Oxnard.
03:29Wine country.
03:30The Vikings, it says TCO Performance Center in Eagan, Minnesota.
03:34So, no, I don't believe they make their way up to Mankato, Minnesota.
03:37Man, they used to.
03:39Tough scene at that point, yeah.
03:40Eagan's pretty close to the Twin Cities.
03:42One of my good friends from Omaha, from Eagan.
03:46Great football player.
03:47Brett Nearingarten.
03:48Wow.
03:49Different story.
03:49Where do you go to college?
03:50One of the veterans, the IRS, who should show up in Ashburn.
03:53He was pretty good for Eagan back in the day.
03:55Who should show up in Ashburn, Virginia, in just a few days for the Commanders training camp.
04:02That being Vaughn Miller signing a deal with Washington yesterday.
04:0636 years old.
04:08Spent the previous three seasons in Buffalo.
04:10Has played 13 years in his NFL career.
04:13An eight-time Pro Bowler.
04:15A seven-time All-Pro performer.
04:17His last All-Pro season, 2018.
04:20His last Pro Bowl season, 2019.
04:23Is he still delivering on that level as a two-time Super Bowl champ?
04:27Maybe not.
04:28Can he make an impact for the Commanders?
04:30I'd say yes.
04:32And again, sometimes more of the impact, Ben, will come from the locker room in itself.
04:35Like, I'm a two-time champion.
04:36I know what it takes to get it done.
04:38I can teach you some pass-rushing moves.
04:39Like, hey, do you watch me in my prime?
04:40Maybe I'm not in my prime anymore, but I can certainly show you what it was like to be in my prime.
04:44And how you can use those skills.
04:45Because if anybody remembers Vaughn Miller, like, he's still a really good football player probably at the end of it.
04:50But his seasons with the Denver Broncos, he was absolutely wrecking games all by himself.
04:57One of the best to do it.
04:58Hall of Famer down the line.
04:59Still trying to chase down another ring in Washington now.
05:01And as DRS mentioned, the Commanders, despite having the rookie quarterback who won Offensive Rookie of the Year last year, the oldest team in the NFL, 27 years, 247 days, the average age.
05:15And they just got a little bit older with Vaughn Miller yesterday.
