The NFL draft is over and the Arizona Cardinals have selected six players and agreed to deals with 21 rookie free agents. Now is the official beginning of the offseason for the players.
Starting Monday, the Cardinals began the first phase of their offseason program.
All of it is being done virtually for now, as per league guidelines.
“We’ll start our virtual meetings on Monday,” head coach Kliff Kingsbury said on Saturday after the conclusion of the draft. “We won’t have a virtual workout component. Our guys are pros and we’ll have a plan and we’ll have a program in place that they can follow. We will have the Zoom meetings and start installing some football.”
The only thing they will do online is have classroom time. They will not hold workouts online. Instead, they will give them the workout program and expect they follow it.
Kingsbury, like all coaches, wants to get his players on the field to rep things, but he understands that isn’t possible right now.
Until then, they will have to be content with the players studying on their own. Hopefully, things will open up enough for it to be safe to hold training camp and the preseason before the season begins.
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