"...“I’ve always run a pretty hard camp,†Parcells said. “But I’d say this year’s camp was harder.†..."
http://sports.outsidethebeltway.com/2006/08/parcells-using-belichick-as-sounding-board/
"...Including their two playoff losses, the Cowboys were 8-13 in December and January under Parcells, so perhaps a soft camp isn't such a bad idea after all."
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/trainingcamp07/columns/story?columnist=mosley_matt&id=2962846
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Let's hope Parcells can be flexible on a good number of things.
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Hard and Soft camps have very little bering on major season ending injuries. Ive said this before, and will keep doing so. No correlation at all. Having a "hard" camp will do nothing to cut down on concussions, ACL teams etc. It might help in terms of smaller injuries like ankle rolls and such, but even that is doubtful.
It just gets you more used to hitting and game speed coming out of the gates. Personally, in high school my coaches always ran a moderately hard practice, with a good amount of both hitting and no-contact shorts drills, but a heavy focus on conditioning. Especially in the SoFlo heat, conditioning is a big part of the games, and I feel that should be a focus. Seeing us in some of those early games, those big lineman huffing and puffing after the first quarter was not a good feeling. Run run run I feel is more important than hit hit hit. -
u need a somewhat tough tranning camp and u also need parts of it to be soft
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I wonder if our fairly easy camp last year contibuted to the amount of injuries we had. I know a tough camp can't prevent major injuries but,... what happened to this team was beyond belief.
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Cam ran a really soft camp mostly for the vets. That's why they were gassed by the 3rd quarter come the regular season.
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I think we would ebenfit from a much tougher training camp than the spa sessions Cam provided, but not as tough as Satans where people are cursing him and hes making players cry. ha