"The Washington Commanders first noticed the cameras along the walls of the meeting rooms when they returned from their bye week. They saw the trailer that popped up next to the practice field. Then the NFL Films camera crews roaming the sidelines. For the first time ever, "Hard Knocks" had come to Washington. A new season of HBO's behind-the-scenes series will premiere Tuesday at 9 p.m. and run through the remainder of the season,"
""The onus is no longer on one team to fill 52 minutes or whatever it is a week," supervising director Steve Trout said Monday afternoon of the franchise's new approach. "The cool creative thing is once you start getting into divisional games ... and you see both sides of game-planning, it's really fascinating. So there's a logistical challenge, but I think creatively, it outweighs that.""
"It's a frantic sprint to the finish each week, he said. And the fact that the New York Giants wouldn't play until later Monday night only added to the chaos. ("We're still figuring out what the presence [in the premiere] will be of the Giants' game," Trout said Monday evening.)"
Hard Knocks arrived in Washington for the first time, placing cameras in meeting rooms, a trailer by the practice field and NFL Films crews on the sidelines. HBO's in-season series will premiere Tuesday and follow quarterback Jayden Daniels, coach Dan Quinn and the Commanders through the remainder of the season while spotlighting the NFC East. The production shifted to covering an entire division, enabling stories that show both sides of divisional game-planning. The expanded scope creates logistical challenges and a frantic weekly turnaround, complicated further when teams' game times are staggered across the week.
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