Training camps and real football are finally here, and this year I am joining SI.com colleague Peter King on the first leg of his annual training camp tour to both check out some teams and learn from Mr. MMQB. As luck would have it, our first two stops were to the teams I most identify with from my playing career: the Buffalo Bills and Washington Redskins. I think of those teams often because I spent the most time with them, starting and finishing my career with the Redskins while receiving the most playing time in Buffalo. Still, I hadn’t been back to either camp since I stopped playing for those franchises, and there are a number of things about training camp and going back to my roots that jumped out at me now that I am on the other side of the white lines.

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