The Falcons participated in the first padded practice of their 2020 training camp yesterday. I wasn’t personally in attendance, but if I had to guess, there was a healthy mixture of excitement and apprehension going into it. Ya know, like when you were excited to take the driving test but simultaneously deathly afraid because crowded roadways are scary places to be in a large, quickly moving metal boxes on wheels. What? That wasn’t your experience?! Stop yelling!
Back to football. On the one hand, padded practices signal the impending arrival of the regular season. But on the other hand, keeping everyone healthy during a global pandemic gets a little more when complicated the actual football starts.