Why an N.F.L. Head Coach Asked His Assistants to Take a Conditioning Test

COSTA MESA, Calif. — The Las Vegas Raiders players showed up for the first day of the offseason program this spring and could not believe what they were seeing in the film room.

Their assistant coaches stretching … and then grinding through the same conditioning test the players go through.

“The players laughed a lot,” coach Antonio Pierce said last week about the video clip shared with the players. “We had Rob (Ryan) go out there with his shirt off and belly out. We had Marvin Lewis, 65 years old, and Joe Philbin on the bike.

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“And then you had a couple of guys who played in the league thinking that they

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