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Offseason Workouts begin today but not for the Dolphins

It doesnt matter when we start since all teams have the same amount of practice time
 
Miami Dolphins Monday notebook: Offseason program begins on April 10

1. The 2012 season officially begins on April 10 (kinda).

The games won’t be played for another five months, obviously. But the Dolphins will officially return to the field for the first time in 2012 on April 10 for the start of the offseason program, which will last through mid-to-late June.

The Dolphins won’t be strapping on the pads or even doing much X’s and O’s work with their coaches. But most of the players will be back in Davie for the next few months, working out and building camaraderie together for four or five days a week under the watchful eye of the team’s training staff.

Technically, the Dolphins and the five other teams with a new head coach could begin the offseason program today, a week before the rest of the league, but the Dolphins opted to start next week at the normal time.

A team spokesman said the rest of the offseason schedule has not been finalized yet, but the Dolphins will hold 11 Organized Team Activities (essentially non-contact practices), a mandatory three-day mini-camp and a mandatory rookie mini-camp between now and the end of June. We do know that the Dolphins will hold their Fins Weekend — the annual golf and fishing tournaments — on the weekend of May 19.

While the offseason program was reduced in the new collective bargaining agreement — cut back by five weeks, with OTAs reduced from 14 to 10 — the six teams with a new head coach are allowed an extra OTA workout this summer, which the Dolphins might squeeze in before the draft is held on April 26-28.

And this summer’s offseason program won’t be easy. Linebacker Karlos Dansby admitted last season that he came to training camp 26 pounds overweight following that summer’s NFL lockout, in which the players weren’t allowed to have any contact with the team’s training staff. The Dolphins say they won’t allow that to happen again.

“I don’t think our players were in tremendous shape coming out of the lockout, and I think we’ve got to do a better job this year, and we’ll make sure that that happens,” GM Jeff Ireland said at the Senior Bowl.

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I'm glad not all South Florida writers are trying to make something out of nothing.
 
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