Before the coronavirus pandemic turned the world upside down in the spring of 2020, NFL teams spent the first two weeks of their offseason programs in the team facility, going to meetings and working in the weight room; coaches were not allowed to run practice sessions of any kind.
Those rules remain in place. But in 2020, teams learned how to conduct virtual meetings using tools like Zoom. It’s allowed some teams — particularly the Kansas City Chiefs — to fashion some player-only workouts for their offenses.
“[It’s] more productive for the offense,” head coach Andy Reid explained to reporters (through Zoom, of course) on Monday, “because they can go out and actually throw the ball around and do that part of it.