How Teams Practice When They Cannot Practice?

[So Be]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-teams-practice-when-they-cant-practice-1438033795

A good read on how NFL practices have changed. Would the team consider radio controlled cars like Oakland? Do we have drones flying over practice for better looks at what players are doing?

I know we are trying to leave no stone unturned unturned in frinding ways to get better. Would these ideas make the Dolphins better?

 

[Travis34]

What do the cars accomplish? i see the theory behind the planes. but what about the cars??

 

[So Be]

They take the place of players which, from what I understand, would allow more practice time.

Coaches are looking to find any way possible to compensate for the new CBA, which severely limits their real practice time. I'm sure retired players have a bit to say about today's new practice guidelines with no more two a days and the pad practices being so limited.

 

[So Be]

In Oakland, new Raiders coach Jack Del Rio is experiencing his first full off-season as an NFL head coach working under the restrictions. He was particularly mindful of how it would impede his defense’s response time.

Offenses, he said, can “run plays against the air, so that’s not a problem.” But he needed a way to get his defense to react to an imaginary offense.

“We got remote-control cars with little flags,” Del Rio said with a laugh. “We can’t have receivers or running backs running for us, so we just needed something that moved. We needed defenses to react to it.”

So on practice fields in Oakland, a post-route or a down-and-in route that would normally feature a fast, actual-human such as Amari Cooper, the team’s first-round pick, might be run by a toy car. The technique has also been used by Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly.

 

[Fins_of_Fury]

What do the cars accomplish? i see the theory behind the planes. but what about the cars??

Basically they run routes w/ the cars and use them as a tool to coach defense