Picture your second NFL training camp as a head coach. Now picture a video camera, and its adjoining HBO television crew, following you into team meetings, practice sessions and other private moments that could be used as crucial intel for opposing teams.
For some viewers, it’s an entertaining glimpse into the often secretive world of an NFL team’s preparation for an upcoming season. For the Detroit Lions, it’s an “honor” that they would like to avoid.
The NFL and HBO’s Hard Knocks program will record its fourteenth season this summer when teams reconvene for training camp.