Maybe it's a good thing to have the Pro Bowl before the Super Bowl. I was slow to accept that because I'm generally slow to accept change. It's far better to end the season with a Super Bowl like we had last week than the Pro Bowl that we had the week before. Heck, it's better to the end the season with any Super Bowl than any Pro Bowl. No matter how the NFL season ends we eventually reach a Sunday with no football. Today. This is the first Sunday without football for about the next six months. We probably need the break. The players certainly do. There's also a lot of work to do to get ready for the next long stretch of football Sundays. For the football people that do the real football work and the fans that do the fake stuff. After winning last week's Super Bowl, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said that he and his people were now five weeks behind in preparation for the 2017 NFL season. The funny thing about those comments is that he spent this past week in the Monterey area playing in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Now, he's six weeks behind. I'm sure that he looked at some film between rounds of golf and fun. Maybe he looked at it with Peyton Manning. There's a player that stepped away that's probably dying for some football film study. Anyway, Belichick deserved the break. I have no doubt that he'll put in the work to catch up with those chasing him and his team. That's what he does because he's always at least one step ahead of the competition.
No football today!
But, the Scouting Combine is less than three weeks away. Then free agency. Then Pro Days. OTAs. And the draft. Mini-camps. And suddenly training camp. Next thing we know, football Sundays are back. And we do it all over again. Hopefully it ends with the Minnesota Vikings holding that shiny trophy. In their own stadium.
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