HARD KNOCKS: TRAINING CAMP
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
This is the third episode of Hard Knocks, and the two Los Angeles football teams have suffered some hard knocks indeed. One coach contracted COVID and recovered before the preseason training began, while another tested positive in the opening days of training and was sent home for a two-week quarantine – only to discover, with a second test, that his earlier test had generated a false positive. Players have spent weeks walking through plays without contact, then finally began a more physical type of scrimmage, but with plastic shields affixed to their helmets, and electronic equipment that monitored whether they were socially distanced in a proper way between plays. In this week’s episode, we get closer to the “real thing,” but with many, many questions about how, and whether, games will be played.