NFL teams with new head coaches are allowed to start their offseason program on Monday. Those with returning head coaches have to wait two more weeks.
Explaining The NFL’s Offseason Workouts
The new Collective Bargaining Agreement signed by the NFL and NFLPA included some tweaks to the offseason program, which starts on Monday for teams with new head coaches. The overall theme of the changes is less activity and hitting for the players.
The offseason program can be broken down into three phases, as SB Nation Bay Area has detailed. Workouts will come during the week and no player can have more than four workouts in one week. Teams with new head coaches started workouts on Monday and teams with returning head coaches can start on April 16.
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TAMPA, FL - JANUARY 27: Coach Greg Schiano of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers speaks to the media at an introduction press conference at the team training facility January 27, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images) Getty ImagesIf an NFL team has hired a new head coach this year, it can start its offseason program on Monday. For teams that don’t have new head coaches, the offseason program begins two weeks from Monday. The offseason program is basically a series of workouts during which players can finally start talking football with the teams. Until the offseason program, players can’t talk about football with their coaches.
If your team has hired a new head coach, it’s usually (but not always) because the last one failed, so this is the NFL’s effort to smooth the transition for those new head coaches.
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