But there's no real substitute for honest-to-goodness football action to really give players a reminder of just how fast the game can move once things get serious.
For the Dolphins, they got to experience the closest thing to real football Friday night when the team headed out to Florida International University and did an intra-squad scrimmage game in front of a crowd of over 16,000 Dolphins fans.
At first it seemed like storms in the area were going to shut down the game for everyone, and the scrimmage would have to be called off. But the storms eventually cleared out and the game went on, albeit a little later than expected.