The NFL wants to cut the 2020 preseason in half, from four games to two. This comes after a near two-month closure of team facilities and the cancellation of spring organized team activities due to the coronavirus pandemic. Additionally, no one knows for sure what training camp, set to begin later this month, will entail.
The regular season is scheduled to begin in 10 weeks — beginning on Sept. 10 — with the players less prepared than perhaps ever (old-school preseasons used to feature weeks of full-contact two-a-days and six exhibition games).
Yet at the same time, the players are being admonished by the league and their own union for holding informal workouts on high school fields or in parks.