When the Ravens convene for their 21st training camp at the Under Armour Performance Center in Owings Mills, Md., later this month, the routine will be the same:
• Approximately 80 players will take the field in full pads -- excluding those still rehabilitating injuries -- striving to implement what they have learned during the spring practice season.
• They will grunt and sweat under hot, humid, mid- to late-summer conditions, all the while toeing the fine line between expending maximum effort and suffering minimum damage.
• Players' fortunes will rise and fall, and some will be deployed in different positions, moves to be perceived as either permanent switches or mere experiments.
• Fans, impatient for a quick return to the postseason after a 5-11 season in 2015, will alternately jeer and cheer the most mundane of plays that take place during the most trivial of drills.
