NFL coaches were allowed to return to facilities last week but players might not report for minicamp this year due to COVID-19.
As of now, Broncos coach Vic Fangio is not expecting players to report to UCHealth Training Center until late July for training camp.
“Right now, we won’t be on the field until training camp,” Fangio said on June 2. “If that changes between now and then, then we will adjust. So our meetings will continue to be virtual. We won’t be behind any more than anyone else is. It’d be different if half the teams were shut down and half weren’t.
“It’s even-steven, and luckily me and a bunch of the other coaches have had experience with the lockout in 2011. From a football standpoint, it’s very similar to that. I’m not too worked up or worried about where we’re at verses where we could be. It so happens that in 2011 I was with the Niners then and we were a totally new staff where everything was new. We hadn’t even met our players and we didn’t meet our players until training camp started, and we did fine that year. I don’t see it as a big issue.”
Following the lockout, San Franciso went 13-3 in the regular season and advanced all the way to the NFC Championship Game in the playoffs. The 49ers then lost to the Giants, who went on to win the Super Bowl.
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