After a delay to their offseason schedule due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Bills players finally have started to get on the field and hit each other. With preseason games still canceled, each day of practice held in Orchard Park is that much more important before the team’s season opener against the Jets on Sept. 13.
While importance still stands true, there wasn’t many observations from Wednesday’s practice.
With that, here are three main takeaways from Day 3 of Bills training camp practices:
Short day at the office
We’ve got a few takeaways mustered together, and we’ll tell you, we really had to dig for information on Wednesday. That’s because the Bills didn’t really practice very much at all. With the NFL’s new collective bargaining agreement with the players for 2020 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, players are being slowly moved toward full, live, physical practices to make up for the lack of football work earlier in the year.
The first two days of training camp practices this week were physical, but as Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott put it, players weren’t hitting, they would “thud up” each other. The first day teams are allowed to fully go at it is Day 4 of practice, which is Thursday for the Bills. So it appears that McDermott & Co. gave players more of a walk-through practice on Wednesday in preparation for that. According to the Buffalo News, players were going at about 50 percent effort during some 11-on-11 drills.