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Broncos HC Sean Payton emphasized the importance of strength and conditioning during the team’s start of the off-season training program.
“We’re probably the only team that stays in Phase One for five weeks,” Payton said, via Broncos Wire. “So, I would say the most important thing we do is lift, change our bodies, run, condition. We’ll have plenty of time for football. There’s a reason we spend five weeks and we don’t even go near [football]. I don’t want them pulling into the parking lot in April thinking they’re coming to football practice. I want them coming here knowing that they’re going to get a good workout in, good lift in. So that would be the most important thing.”
Payton said he adopted this philosophy from his mentor, former HC Bill Parcells.
“I remember, I had the quarterbacks and receivers [under Parcells],” Payton said. “First week, they’re lifting, and I got them out on the field. Now they’d been with us four days. He walks to the door outside the practice field, and he’s just looking at me. He says, ‘If one of these receivers gets a hamstring [injury], I’m going to have another quarterback/receiver coach.’ And he was right. In other words, we don’t know at that moment where they’re at from a conditioning and strength standpoint. So, I would say that was him.”
Panthers WR Hunter Renfrow said his body feels good after taking time away from football.
“The first week or so just getting back into it, my body was still not sure about it, but I’ve felt pretty good,” Renfrow said, via the team’s website.
Renfrow is still getting back into playing shape but is happy with how his body has responded to football movements.
According to CBS insider Aditi Kinkhabwala, the contract talks between Pittsburgh and OLB T.J. Watt were reminiscent of where the team was four years ago with him.
“Here’s what the disconnect is,” Kinkhabwala said, via Steelers Wire. “And this is what happened the last time around in these negotiations. T.J. Watt was openly told, ‘You’re fortunate to be a Steeler.’ And his response was, ‘You’re fortunate to have me.’”
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