Normal camp lasts about 30 days, and teams are permitted to cram 25 practices into those 30 days. However, with camp extended to 40 days with the first game being pushed back, there’s a lot more time off, which isn’t necessarily a good thing when you’ve got new everything.... staff, players, positions, injuries, virus concerns, schemes, playbooks, etc. Instead of getting into any sort of rhythm, it’s all starting and stopping all the time. Think of it like one of those drivers — you all know one, or maybe you are one — that hits the brakes way too often and you just never get going.
Extended camp leads to lulls in... everything.
