When a football team wins a game, the time on the practice field may be the primary reason for the positive performance. Coaches will decide how much time to practice based on the time of the year, the team's recent performance and whether new plays are going to be introduced.
Football teams spend their most time at practice during summer training camp. At the college and pro level, double sessions occur regularly. Teams often practice for 90 minutes during a morning or early afternoon session and then come back and practice for up to two hours in an evening session. Modern coaches are more concerned about practicing in the middle of a summer day than they were generations ago.
Former Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith would cut practice short in training camp when temperatures exceeded 95 degrees or the humidity was high. Teams often spend two hours on the field at practice during the early season.
The first priority of the day is to eat breakfast. I was always so tired and sore from the day before that eating breakfast felt like a chore. Oatmeal, eggs and lot of juice become the early-morning answer before rushing off to the training room for mandatory treatment on all reported ailments and injuries. The team trainers keep tabs on every bruise, strain or ailment reported, and players become obligated to attend treatment sessions during the few windows of downtime that exist during the day.
This serves as a great incentive for guys to not report any injuries that are otherwise manageable. After treatment, it was time to head over to the gym for an hour of weightlifting. Lifting weights in training camp was always difficult to get motivated for. The body feels like it has been in a car accident and is incredibly worn out, yet you have to find a way to push through the stiffness, strained backs and, of course, bruises.
As torturous as this felt in the moment, once you got your body going you could feel the benefits of the lifting session instantly. A team meeting usually starts us, which is relatively brief and is led by the head coach. Afterward, the players remain seated for a special teams meeting. The only guys who can leave at this point are the quarterbacks, who head off to their own meeting. From there we break up into offensive and defensive meetings, which will go on for another hour or so before we are sent to our lockers to get ready for our first practice of the day.
Typically, there are two practices averaging just under two hours each. The first involves more mental preparation, such as walking through the plays we just discussed in the earlier meetings. Under current rules, these practices are generally in helmets only, but when I played they would alternate between full pads and helmets every other day.
When this practice ends, players are given a few hours of leisure time, which includes eating lunch, taking a short nap, getting more treatment on injuries or socializing with teammates. These are a few hours of freedom around noon that just so happen to be when time moves the fastest.
Before long, you have to head back to the locker room to put your gear on for the second practice. Clubs are allowed to carry a man roster to begin camp.
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