Q. You talk about overcoming the adversity created by the weather, and how practice-time changes help prepare for the flow of a regular season, and how resting veterans is more about giving other guys an opportunity to practice and improve. I get all that. But what about this whole destination training camp thing is FUN for you?

A. I love to work to capture that which we cannot measure but we know is significant – that camaraderie, component of team, the understanding that's required to be great as a collective. I think when you're at a destination camp, it's those informal moments, the evenings on picnic tables and spending time in each other's rooms, getting to know one another. That's the value in the destination camp. The formal work, there is no difference. But there comes a point in

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