Cowboys’ Mike McCarthy pushes back on NFL offseason schedule overhaul: ‘I hope it doesn’t happen’

FRISCO, Texas — The NFL Players Association proposed the league remake its entire offseason calendar on Monday with the big change being the elimination of voluntary spring workouts and organized team activities (OTAs).

Instead, the NFLPA would like to see “an extended, OTA-style ramp-up — strength and conditioning, non-padded work, etc. — straight into training camp without a six-week break/de-escalation in between” prior to training camp in the middle of June or at the beginning of July. That would erase their responsibility to show up at their teams’ facilities in May and early June. On the flip side, both the players and NFL coaches and staffers would then lose the six-week break they receive from June up until training camp in late July, a period many who work for NFL teams use to spend time with their family, especially their children, since school is out for summer. 

“Hypotheticals are what they are. That’s a hypothetical I hope it doesn’t happen,”  Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy said Thursday. “I think any coach would feel that way. At the end of the day, I don’t know the nuts and bolts of it. Just like everything with the league and the union, when they interact, there’s a lot of studies and education that goes into it. I’ll be curious in the why.”

McCarthy views that six-week break he and the players receive between June and July as a crucial rest and recovery period. Under the NFLPA’s proposal, there wouldn’t be the same gap between the lighter, noncontact team workouts and training camp, when the helmets and pads return along with full-contact practices. 

“When you look at all the variables of training your football team and getting ready for a season, there is undulation in your training. Rest and recovery is part of it. The reality of the current state that we’re in the CBA, you have to have the involvement and understanding that your players are gonna have…

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Author : Garrett Podell

Publish date : 2024-05-30 22:59:15

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