The day after a game is considered an Off Day, so there are no physical football activities, no practice. But players still come in, some of them come in to work out, some of them come in to work with the training staff on injuries and some of them come in for game film or bull sessions with their position coaches. Every once in a while the coach tells them take the full day off - meaning you earned it, take a break. But after the Carolina game, you can bet that every player on the Lions team game in to work on something. With Thursday games that recovery/rest day is taken away and game prep gets cut down to two days and the road team has to travel on the 2nd day or the day of the game. It's a joke and it needs to stop.