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Miami Dolphins unveiling radical idea for rookie minicamp
The Miami Dolphins will have their eight draft picks and 10undrafted free agents in town beginning Thursday, and rookie minicamp will gofrom Friday to Sunday. And the rookies will not touch the field at the team'straining facility once during those three days.
No pads. No helmets.
No practice during minicamp.
Brilliant!
No, really. This is happening. And it is really smart. Andradical.
Adam Gase has been planning for months as coach of the Dolphins --and for over a year before he became an NFL head coach -- how he would handlesomething that seems so mundane to the rest of the world as a rookie minicamp.And he's got ideas. And he's implementing those this week.
And they will not include actual practices on the field.
Instead Dolphins rookies will spend all their time during thisminicamp in classroom sessions learning how to be Miami Dolphins. That meansthey're going to get schooled on the schemes they're playing, theirassignments, and everything football that involves the brain.
But they're also going to get a little polished up as people.They're going to get life labs to help them with nutrition, financialplanning, sports science, and dealing with the media -- the last of which is abig part of their job believe it or not.
The point of all of this is two-fold and here is the genius part,in my opinion.
Gase wants to combat the rookie wall syndrome that seems to stopsome rookies dead in their tracks come late November or December. There is atheory these young men hit that wall because they're playing four preseason and16 regular-season games in the NFL and usually play 12 games -- maybethree more if they're the best teams -- in college.
There may be validity to that.
But this: The Dolphins understand every single one of theserookies regardless of where they went to school, just played their 2015 seasonsand as soon as that was over they began training.
The trained for the Indianapolis Combine.
They trained for their Pro Days.
They trained for the various workouts they did for teamsprivately.
And they also spent much of the past six weeks or so flying allover the United States (greatest country on Earth) to meet with the variousteam coaches, general managers and others who might be deciding whether to pickthem.
That takes a toll. So Gase believes it's time to take the foot offthat pedal for these rookies. He doesn't want to burn them out physically.
Meanwhile, Gase wants these guys more mentally ready to be afactor the next time they get on the field, which will be with veterans.Dolphins vets have been in their conditioning program for four weeks and justhad a minicamp of their own where they got coached on the playbook and such.
So Gase wants to get the rookies as caught up as possible upmentally as quickly as possible so when they get on the field, there is lesshesitation and they play faster.
So what's the downside?
More at LINK: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...iling-a-radical-idea-for-rookie-minicamp.html
The Miami Dolphins will have their eight draft picks and 10undrafted free agents in town beginning Thursday, and rookie minicamp will gofrom Friday to Sunday. And the rookies will not touch the field at the team'straining facility once during those three days.
No pads. No helmets.
No practice during minicamp.
Brilliant!
No, really. This is happening. And it is really smart. Andradical.
Adam Gase has been planning for months as coach of the Dolphins --and for over a year before he became an NFL head coach -- how he would handlesomething that seems so mundane to the rest of the world as a rookie minicamp.And he's got ideas. And he's implementing those this week.
And they will not include actual practices on the field.
Instead Dolphins rookies will spend all their time during thisminicamp in classroom sessions learning how to be Miami Dolphins. That meansthey're going to get schooled on the schemes they're playing, theirassignments, and everything football that involves the brain.
But they're also going to get a little polished up as people.They're going to get life labs to help them with nutrition, financialplanning, sports science, and dealing with the media -- the last of which is abig part of their job believe it or not.
The point of all of this is two-fold and here is the genius part,in my opinion.
Gase wants to combat the rookie wall syndrome that seems to stopsome rookies dead in their tracks come late November or December. There is atheory these young men hit that wall because they're playing four preseason and16 regular-season games in the NFL and usually play 12 games -- maybethree more if they're the best teams -- in college.
There may be validity to that.
But this: The Dolphins understand every single one of theserookies regardless of where they went to school, just played their 2015 seasonsand as soon as that was over they began training.
The trained for the Indianapolis Combine.
They trained for their Pro Days.
They trained for the various workouts they did for teamsprivately.
And they also spent much of the past six weeks or so flying allover the United States (greatest country on Earth) to meet with the variousteam coaches, general managers and others who might be deciding whether to pickthem.
That takes a toll. So Gase believes it's time to take the foot offthat pedal for these rookies. He doesn't want to burn them out physically.
Meanwhile, Gase wants these guys more mentally ready to be afactor the next time they get on the field, which will be with veterans.Dolphins vets have been in their conditioning program for four weeks and justhad a minicamp of their own where they got coached on the playbook and such.
So Gase wants to get the rookies as caught up as possible upmentally as quickly as possible so when they get on the field, there is lesshesitation and they play faster.
So what's the downside?
More at LINK: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...iling-a-radical-idea-for-rookie-minicamp.html
