Field Gulls
Mike Macdonald is giving his players a little bit more of a summer holiday before training camp starts.
The Seattle Seahawks were supposed to be practicing on Monday as part of voluntary Organized Team Activities (OTAs), but instead they can cool down in the warm weather ahead of their rescheduled start of mandatory minicamp.
Initially, the plan was for nine OTA workouts starting on May 27 and ending on June 12, with minicamp running from June 17-19. Last week, Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald opted to boot the last few OTA sessions to the curb and move minicamp up.
It should be noted that the Seahawks could choose to hold those remaining voluntary OTAs (slated for June 9th and 11th-12th) after minicamp. If those OTAs aren’t used then it’s summer vacation time following the 12th. Seattle already had perfect attendance last week, so that’s encouraging.
This doesn’t really affect any Seahawks fans since you’re not allowed at any of these practices until training camp, but it does mean there’s a potentially longer gap between the end of minicamp and the start of training camp, of which we’ll find out the dates for those public practices very soon.
