‘Coach Dick Jauron, an NFL defensive back in the 1970s, played in an era when players worked out on their own in the offseason or "worked if you had a job." Today, salaries are such that players don’t have to worry about a real job. The trade off with owners is giving up large chunks of their off-season to practice. Coaches now work year-round, too. But they also make a lot more money. "It’s an interesting time of year," Jauron said. "A lot of work gets done, it’s not mandatory and we have great participation from our squad. We have great work going on off the field, too, both in the classrooms and in the strength and conditioning area and in our nutrition area, so it’s very valuable for us. It’s so different from when I played the game, so significantly different. We’re so far ahead of where we were. Of course in those days training camp was unbelievably long, so you had time I guess to catch up. But it’s much better today than it was then."’