yes, and I get all that, but you would think SOMEONE would have spoken to them early on about how to be an adult in the NFL, and life. Clearly these guys are surrounded by yes men and they get fed a bunch of placating garbage..and false info. They get in way over their head when they come to the NFL.
I think alot of this is the pandemic.
When it first happened nobody saw the repercussions coming.
Athletes get into rythums and training is different for everybody. I am sure many in the NFL try to just get well from the previous season and do not really intensify their preparations until before TC.
With all the gyrations of trying to get a handle on how to cope..many probably thought there would be no season. They were seeing all the shutdowns and I might back off my workouts to better focus on family, etc.
I think that is partly maybe even largely to blame..working out singlurly is not the same as working with trainers and coaches monitoring progress for you.
That is why the rosters were expanded to have a bigger roster to draw from if injuries overwhelmed teams.
So it's not like anybody planned it poorly. There was never anything like this before.