Football season is back, baby.At long last we have reached training camp time with various teams reporting across the NFL. As if this weren't enough last week brought with it the release of College Football 25 and everything feels right in the world once more.Sure, baseball returned from the All-Star break and the Olympics are about to start. Before we know it the Premier League will be back as well, and hey, the Open Championship was last weekend!Football is king though and as usual we have thoughts on it all.Welcome to this week's Skinny Post. Let's begin. Patrick Mahomes made sure to keep CFB 25 a priority while beginning campRJ: As noted training camps are officially happening across the league, even if not every team is present and accounted for. If you have ever been to an NFL training camp before then you know that it can have some summer camp sort of vibes.This is true because players on some teams often stay in the same area. There aren't bunk beds or anything, but people being all together feels like Bug Juice which is somehow one of the shows from millennials' youth that hasn't gotten a reboot.Even if you are practicing football for a majority of your time things can get a little boring around parts like these which explains why Patrick Mahomes made sure he didn't miss out on the new CFB 25 video game. According to SB Nation's own Pete Sweeney, Mahomes brought a tv to camp for the first time partly to make sure he could play.Patrick Mahomes is entering his eighth training camp, and he says he has never brought a television with him until now. Two reasons that changed, he says:- The Olympics- EA Sports College Football 25 Pete Sweeney. One room to sleep in, one room to get away and take in the Olympics with his teammates. Bang. Done. Training camp cheat codes. The NFL will be utilizing a new structure for their kickoffs which should be a revitalizing change for a league that doesn't often like "new"Michael:So I'm super stoked for this change. On a one-year trial basis, the NFL will be changing their kickoff structures to mimic what the XFL league did during their 2020 and 2022 seasons.Teams will kickoff from the 30-yard line while both teams start five yards from each other on the other side of the field. The kicking team lines up entirely on the 35-yard line while the receiving team faces them on the other 30-yard line. Neither team moves until the ball has been caught by the returner.This change should be a welcomed sight for those who want to make the game safer while injecting some life into a play that hasn't seen many changes in its lifespan. What I love most about this is that there's just the singular line of defense and then the kicker. If special teams coordinators can find a way to break https://www.nevadawolfpackoutfit.com this play wide open, there could be some extremely exciting plays to be had. With the teams essentially grouped up into such a small area, teams may prioritize their best player with a combination of speed and size to squeeze through some of the gaps because that basically all it takes to break off a long return.One mistake and it's potentially. Does this not sound super cool? I think so.This is how the new NFL kickoff will look.Biggest difference from the XFL is the kickoff team starts at the 40, return team at 35 and Kicker from the 35.Think we'll like it? All conventional wisdom and thought that we have could be super valuable or it could be utterly meaningless. Outright speed may not wind up being too great of an asset as more patience and a willingness to wait for blocks to develop could be the game-changer.As a Dallas Cowboys fan one thing I am certain of is that John Fassel, Cowboys' Special Teams Coordinator if you didn't know, is going to do anything and everything in his power to capitalize on it and take advantage of our new reality. After all, he was a part of the group that presented the format to league owners and did so well enough that they voted for it.Bring it on. Jordan Love is not going to practice until he has a new dealRJ: Monday morning brought interesting news as it was reported that the Green Bay Packers will not be seeing any practice from quarterback Jordan Love before he has a brand new deal with the team. Ruh roh, Shaggy.Jordan Love will not practice until he has a new deal, Brian Gutekunst says. Love's camp informed Packers of that decision Saturday.Gutekunst says a deal could get done in the coming days, but you never know. Says big deals take time."I feel we're close." Matt Schneidman (July 22, 2024As dramatic as this sounds it ultimately seems pretty inevitable that Love and the Packers are going to get this thing done. The way that Green Bay is talking makes it sound like they want https://www.nevadawolfpackoutfit.com nothing more than to pay him an enormous amount of money, must be nice to continually find franchise quarterback after franchise quarterback.Really though, good on Jordan Love. Good on him capitalizing on his moment and cashing in. This isn't to say that I think that he thinks he can't play to a high level following an impressive debut season, but today's price is not yesterday's. He has every right to chase the bag.Michael: Yeah, there's nothing surprising about this move by Love and his camp. Even though he has just the one season of being a full-time starter under his belt, it was a pretty dang good season for him and the Packers. With one of the youngest and least-experienced receiver groups in the league, Love took the Pack to the playoffs, beat the Cowboys, and finished the year with over 4,000 passing yards and 30 touchdowns.Green Bay could not have asked for a much better season to follow Aaron Rodgers' time with the team. Expectations were probably to fall short of the postseason. Luckily for the fans the Packers didn't skip a beat with a rare first-year starter under center.I've always been a proponent that NFL teams should pay players for what they've done, not what the hope they'll do in the future, but that's just not the game this league plays. It's a "pay now or suffer the potential consequences that may last years and years" business. Someone is always willing to pay early and that forces anyone who may want to play the waiting game to pony up faster than they'd like.At the end of the day, Love played out of his mind with a less-than-stellar supporting cast and he turned into a hell of a year. Kudos to him and I hope he gets the money rightfully deserves.