They have 47 days. They will train; they will travel the world; they will rest and recover and ready themselves for what awaits — “the grind,” as their head coach likes to call it.
But Chuck Pagano is right. For a professional football player, training camp is the ultimate grind. It is a late-summer slog.
The Indianapolis Colts concluded their offseason program last Thursday, wrapping up an eight-week period in which new systems were installed as new coordinators went to work. Eight new coaches, including Rob Chudzinski, who’s taking the reins of the offense on a full-time basis, and Ted Monachino, here to instill some Raven-like toughness in the D, represent the biggest staff overhaul in Pagano’s five seasons in Indianapolis.