Go Inside the Huddler with Sky Sports, Neil Reynolds and Jeff Reimbold.

Yes, hello and welcome to Inside the Huddle in association with Skysports.com and NFL UK.

I'm your host, Neil Reynolds, joined as ever by my colleague from Sky Sports, Jeff Reimbold, who is in North America, up bright and early.

Jeff, how are you?

I'm doing good, Neil.

We're right at the end of training camp.

We've got one exhibition game left on Friday night, and then it's on to the season.

So it's about upon us, as they say.

Yeah, so the CFL season is about to kick off and mini camps are kicking off across the US this week.

25 teams are in mini camp. There's a slight difference between the, when you read about OTAs and the

mini camps, mini camps are mandatory for the players. They can get fined if they're not there.

You can do a little bit more in terms of competition. You can have the players in They can get fined if they're not there. You can do a little bit more in terms of

competition. You can have the players in the building a little bit longer. The New York Jets actually

last week when I was with them at Florham Park in New Jersey, they were actually in their

mini camp last week. So the players were around a lot more. Jeff it's just another just a little dialing it up

just a notch just before that break they get five weeks off soon and then training camp starts

but it's just a little rise in intensity and a chance to again have a gauge of your team well and

again especially for a team like the Jets a team like the bills bills, where you've got new coaches in there, it's really, really critical because you're trying to create a culture and every opportunity to have your team together, to be in the locker room together, to train together, to spend that time on the field, compete against one another.

It's just laying a foundation that you're going to have to have in place when you come back

to training camp because even though the NFL training camp is considered a grind by the players

for the coaches, it's a whirlwind.

And it seems like the games are calling you way too soon.

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