There are no pads or contact, and even nothing resembling football activity until phase 2, but it is symbolic if nothing else.
The Buffalo Bills will officially meet as a team for the first time before the 2025 season when the activities of the volunteer team (OTA) start on Monday, April 21. With the nine -week off -season program, the voluntary rules of the collective negotiation agreement (CBA), the perfect presence is in the long term.
Nevertheless, it is the occasion for coaches staff to start implementing their plans as new faces acclimatize to the Orchard Park environment. It is also a chance for the wide receiver of free agent Joshua Palmer to build a relationship with the quarter-arre MVP Josh Allen.
Realisticly, there is little growth that can occur when players are in gym shorts because no live contact is authorized at any time during the OTA (phase 1, 2, 3).
Latopped as phase 1, the first two weeks are only composed by “meetings, strength and conditioning and physical rehabilitation”.
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In phase 2, which lasts three weeks, football activity can begin because “field training may include individual or group instructions and exercises”. Team exercises are not allowed at this stage.
Phase 3, a period of four weeks, allows clubs to hold 10 team practices which can include “exercises 7-sur 7, 9-sur 7 and 11 against 11”. The bills will be in action on May 27, 28 and 29 followed by June 2, 3 and 5.
The off-season program will end with a compulsory mini-cap from June 10 to 12 in Orchard Park.
A certainty is that the OTA go the appetite of the mafia at a time when the vibrations are raised in Orchard Park.
After having been eliminated the playoffs in the hands of the Kansas City chiefs for the fourth time in five years, the Bills built to overcome the bump as they continue a trip to the Super Bowl LX. Allen winning the NFL MVP Prize in February and a new stadium expected in 2026, fans are thirsty for football, even if only in the gymnasium without pads.
Start date: April 21
Phase 3 practices: May 27, May 28, May 29, June 2, June 3, June 5
MINICAMP compulsory: June 10-12
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