The calendar may have just flipped to August, and you might have every reason to believe real football doesn’t start for another month, but there’s no denying things are getting realer with the arrival of the New York Giants to Allen Park for a week of joint practices with the Detroit Lions.
Joint practices offer a bevy of opportunities for an NFL team. For the Detroit Lions and head coach Dan Campbell, the value of these practices lie in the chance to see some different competition—and avoid falling into a routine.
“First of all, it’s what you think it’s going to be as far as the intensity goes up, you know, and the level of competition, it’s a different—it’s a fresh look at somebody else and I love that,” Campbell said on Saturday.