The Oops! Report

Training camps are open around the NASH-unal FOOT-ball League (phonetics by the late Howard Cosell), and you know what that means: Lots of irrelevant breathlessness about how good Player X and Player Y are looking in practice.

Also, how bad Player Z is looking. 

And so we come to the training camp Oops! Report, in which various players do some wildly unimpressive things, and (in one case, anyway) are cut almost upon arrival. 

My favorite, while not exactly an Oops!, was watching Chris Hinton of the Colts dog it during gasser drills back in the day. This entailed having the offensive unit take off from the goal line, sprint the length of the field, then sprint back. When the offense reached the 50, the defensive unit would take off. This went on until tongues were hanging out.

Well. Except for Hinton, that is.

He used to lope along so slowly the defense nearly caught up with him.

Now, understand, this was in the days before mini-camps and mini-mini-camps and Not-Really-Optional OTAs. So big guys like Hinton used training camp to slowly work themselves into shape.

Also, Hinton was an All-Pro lineman. Taking it easy in a training camp exercise was going to have zero effect on how many linebackers he road-graded once the season started.

Plus, it's not like he was Andrew Mevis or Daniel Jones.

Mevis, a rookie kicker trying to make the Jaguars' roster, didn't just not make the roster the other day, he didn't make it with bells and whistles. This is because he so badly sprayed his kicks spectators on the sideline should have been wearing body armor.

One of Mevis' kicks hit former Dallas Cowboys head coach Dave Campo in the head, to list the most prominent example.

Shortly thereafter he was told to report to the head coach and bring his playbook. Or something similar.

And Jones?

The struggling New York Giants quarterback didn't do himself any favors when one of his passes hit a spectator. And not just any spectator, but a disabled kid. Sharp-eyed reporters noted that he was not the intended receiver.

Jones is already entering a season in which he either goes big or goes bust. Now he does this? Can you imagine the heckling from fans?

Hey, Danny! (Holds up picture of a kid in a wheelchair) Hit the disabled kid and win a new car!

Hey, Danny! (Points to the construction helmet on his head) I came prepared!

Hey, Danny! Was that kid you hit running a deep sideline, or an underneath slant?

And that'll just be at the home games.