{"id":293368,"date":"2016-06-21T16:54:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T20:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=293368"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:32:28","slug":"with-fumbles-proving-costly-nfl-teams-use-beeping-footballs-to-teach-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=293368","title":{"rendered":"With fumbles proving costly, NFL teams use beeping footballs to teach technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBURN \u2014 Amid the hooting and hollering during the Washington Redskins&#8217; minicamp, there was a different sound in the air during running back drills.<br \/>Coaches whack at the football with Matt Jones carrying it, and it beeps. Then it beeps longer.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a good sign.<\/p>\n<p>The Redskins are one of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/jun\/21\/nfl-teams-beeping-footballs-fumbling\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/jun\/21\/nfl-teams-beeping-footballs-fumbling\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"With fumbles proving costly, NFL teams use beeping footballs to teach technique\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBURN \u2014 Amid the hooting and hollering during the Washington Redskins&#8217; minicamp, there was a different sound in the air during running back drills.Coaches whack at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908765,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293368\/revisions\/1908765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}