☕️ S&C Daily — The Hardest Summer

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We covered Andy O'Brien landing in Toronto yesterday. The club's own announcement since names four more alongside him. O'Brien comes in as Vice President, Sport Performance, with strength and conditioning, sport science, nutrition, injury rehab and mental performance all under him.

Jason Martin joins as head strength and conditioning coach from the Penguins' player development staff, with Josh Crouse as his assistant, in from the Halifax Mooseheads. Dr. Craig Slaunwhite arrives as director of health and performance integration, and Dr. Jordan Shallow, co-founder of the Pre-Script certification, comes in as human performance consultant.

Utah offensive lineman Alex Harrison told KSL Sports the Utes' rebuilt strength program under new head coach Morgan Scalley put him through the hardest summer of his career and left him in the best shape of it. "It was the most difficult summer workout I've ever been through but I've never felt better physically," he said. Harrison also said some of the offensive line put on roughly 20 pounds of lean mass in two to three months.

New Steelers coach Mike McCarthy opened the team's first padded practice with nobody allowed to take a teammate to the ground. "It's a risk-assessment decision," he said, per the AP. Defenders still wrap up ball carriers, they just don't finish. He says the technique still gets trained - GPS to check positioning, video review, and coaching the approach, the strike, the wrap, the finish - just without the collision. Three of Pittsburgh's most important defenders are in their 30s, and the Ravens and much of the league dropped camp tackling years ago.

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