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Post by jeffcardinalfan on Apr 1, 2024 9:01:20 GMT -7
Does anyone know actually when draftees get a copy of the playbook? I was just thinking that if I were a draftee I would want the playbook put in my hands right after I was drafted because I would be eager to get started. So I'm curious as to what the time frame is on that? And I would also wonder would it be the same time frame for free agent signees?
Unless there's some legal reason for them not to get playbooks right away I would insist that they took one with them the day the contract was signed or right after they were drafted.
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Post by Dry Heat on Apr 1, 2024 9:31:48 GMT -7
I believe it’s at camp.
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Post by jeffcardinalfan on Apr 2, 2024 4:44:54 GMT -7
to me that makes no sense at all particularly for quarterbacks. Again unless there's some compelling reason why not to I would at the very least put the playbook in the hands of rookies as soon as they sign the contract and let them know they were expected to have a working knowledge of it when camp started. From the players perspective, I absolutely know that if I were an NFL draft day I would demand the play book as soon as I can get it..
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Post by End Zone on Apr 2, 2024 9:34:11 GMT -7
Does anyone know actually when draftees get a copy of the playbook? I was just thinking that if I were a draftee I would want the playbook put in my hands right after I was drafted because I would be eager to get started. So I'm curious as to what the time frame is on that? And I would also wonder would it be the same time frame for free agent signees? Unless there's some legal reason for them not to get playbooks right away I would insist that they took one with them the day the contract was signed or right after they were drafted. bleacherreport.com/articles/2076186-welcome-to-the-nflheres-your-first-playbookThis Bleacher Report article has been around since 2014. But the suggestion about teaching teamwork from the playbook beginning at OTA is still spot on today. Like at all sports, the good things are taught in layers. Some guys will ignore the playbook at their peril. The guys that have great athletic talent and ignore the playbook usually don't survive September cuts.
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Post by jeffcardinalfan on Apr 2, 2024 16:55:30 GMT -7
Does anyone know actually when draftees get a copy of the playbook? I was just thinking that if I were a draftee I would want the playbook put in my hands right after I was drafted because I would be eager to get started. So I'm curious as to what the time frame is on that? And I would also wonder would it be the same time frame for free agent signees? Unless there's some legal reason for them not to get playbooks right away I would insist that they took one with them the day the contract was signed or right after they were drafted. bleacherreport.com/articles/2076186-welcome-to-the-nflheres-your-first-playbookThis Bleacher Report article has been around since 2014. But the suggestion about teaching teamwork from the playbook beginning at OTA is still spot on today. Like at all sports, the good things are taught in layers. Some guys will ignore the playbook at their peril. The guys that have great athletic talent and ignore the playbook usually don't survive September cuts. I should have been lots of players who's a careers never got off the ground because they didn't prepare properly. But I still think that if I were in that situation I would demand to playbook because I was going to show up at the first day of rookie camp known as much as I can possibly know just by studying The playbook and I would be driving my position coach crazy by calling him every day with questions. I mean here you have a young man who just signed the contract in some cases is a instant millionaire with the vast majority of players play for less money and especially those that have to work their tails off just to make a roster it doesn't make any sense to me at all that they would not want to be as prepared as possible to have a chance of becoming a millionaire later.
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Post by Dry Heat on Apr 2, 2024 20:19:40 GMT -7
to me that makes no sense at all particularly for quarterbacks. Again unless there's some compelling reason why not to I would at the very least put the playbook in the hands of rookies as soon as they sign the contract and let them know they were expected to have a working knowledge of it when camp started. From the players perspective, I absolutely know that if I were an NFL draft day I would demand the play book as soon as I can get it.. Agree. I’m sure they want to have strict control to make sure things aren’t leaked, and they may not even have the initial playbook completed by OTA’s. I wonder if they have some form of “start-up” info fo the rookies that includes some of the playbook info.
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Post by End Zone on Apr 3, 2024 2:29:15 GMT -7
bleacherreport.com/articles/2076186-welcome-to-the-nflheres-your-first-playbookThis Bleacher Report article has been around since 2014. But the suggestion about teaching teamwork from the playbook beginning at OTA is still spot on today. Like at all sports, the good things are taught in layers. Some guys will ignore the playbook at their peril. The guys that have great athletic talent and ignore the playbook usually don't survive September cuts. I should have been lots of players who's a careers never got off the ground because they didn't prepare properly. But I still think that if I were in that situation I would demand to playbook because I was going to show up at the first day of rookie camp known as much as I can possibly know just by studying The playbook and I would be driving my position coach crazy by calling him every day with questions. I mean here you have a young man who just signed the contract in some cases is a instant millionaire with the vast majority of players play for less money and especially those that have to work their tails off just to make a roster it doesn't make any sense to me at all that they would not want to be as prepared as possible to have a chance of becoming a millionaire later. JFC, we are not pro football players but we know how to prepare for a difficult task or new job. Some rookie football players also know how to prepare. They will sleep with the playbook and learn everything they can from trainers, coaches, and fellow teammates. Consider also that some 'pro' athletes have horrible academic study habits since the crib. Some got through early life due to exceptional athleticism. For some rookies, a task that includes the letters 'b-o-o-k' is a lot more scary than a mean head coach named Jonathan Gannon.
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Post by jeffcardinalfan on Apr 3, 2024 13:43:19 GMT -7
I should have been lots of players who's a careers never got off the ground because they didn't prepare properly. But I still think that if I were in that situation I would demand to playbook because I was going to show up at the first day of rookie camp known as much as I can possibly know just by studying The playbook and I would be driving my position coach crazy by calling him every day with questions. I mean here you have a young man who just signed the contract in some cases is a instant millionaire with the vast majority of players play for less money and especially those that have to work their tails off just to make a roster it doesn't make any sense to me at all that they would not want to be as prepared as possible to have a chance of becoming a millionaire later. JFC, we are not pro football players but we know how to prepare for a difficult task or new job. Some rookie football players also know how to prepare. They will sleep with the playbook and learn everything they can from trainers, coaches, and fellow teammates. Consider also that some 'pro' athletes have horrible academic study habits since the crib. Some got through early life due to exceptional athleticism. For some rookies, a task that includes the letters 'b-o-o-k' is a lot more scary than a mean head coach named Jonathan Gannon. and that would be information that I would absolutely have to have about a player before I spend a high round draft pick on him. That's one of the things I did not get it all about the treatment of Murray. If he didn't want to watch film and didn't want to study then to me that was a huge issue that should have been dealt with the very first time it came up. I'll even think that if I were a GM I would insist that it be at all player contracts that they lost money if they didn't spend a certain amount of hours watching film. I realize this is a completely different situation but one of the jobs I had during my working life was managing KFC restaurants. Every prospect of applicant was shown the cooler where the raw bloody Chicken was kept and they were told if you were here you'll be handling the raw bloody Chicken. If they didn't want to do that then I couldn't hire them. If they said they would do that and I hired them and then they didn't want to do that then from my perspective they made a career decision and it was to not working kfc. I understand it be more complicated with professional athletes but I find it ridiculous that teams spend hundreds of millions of dollars on people without it enough research on them to find out if they will do what's required to be successful.
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