Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell has a name for spring football. It’s called a “pajama party.”
Campbell calls it that, because it obviously doesn’t much resemble real football, as players during OTAs and minicamp aren’t allowed full contact and they aren’t wearing pads.
It’s an absolutely fair point, and it’s something you always have to keep in mind when watching the practices over the past month or even just reading the beat writers observations.
So now that the media-covered portion of OTAs and minicamp are over, it’s time to take inventory of what we learned.