If Bill Belichick training camp quotes are the NFL’s Groundhog Day, then hearing seemingly every player is in the “best shape of their lives” is like the leaves outside unofficially turning orange.
Most NFL training camps begin this week. They are an earnest grind toward the regular season designed to test elite football players’ mental and physical limits and bring them closer together before all of the action counts in the standings. Of course, after a long offseason, someone almost always professes they feel better than ever. They lost weight. They gained weight. They got stronger. They did something, anything, no one expected them to.
