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August 1, 2006

Morning practice notes

FOXBORO - The highlight of this morning's full-pad practice was an absolute jaw-rattling whack by Freddie Roach out of Al-a-bama on Laurence Maroney during a goal-line drill. Maroney, needless to say didn't get in.

Throughout the full-speed, full contact drill, the defense squished the offense. The first team offense ran three plays with Corey Dillon getting stacked up once, a scramble being whistled dead after Tom Brady was flushed and then Dillon just getting the ball over the line.

The second team offense with Maroney at running back got stacked up on three straight plays with Roach -- an undrafted rookie -- making the big hit in the middle.

*****

Missing from the a.m. practice today were Matt Light, Troy Brown and Jarvis Green....There are new onsides kick rules in place this year. No overloading one side or the other, coverage teams have to balance the number of guys on both sides of the ball. The Pats spent about 15 minutes working on that. ...Both Eugene Wilson and James Sanders were on kickoff coverage...Mike Wright worked out at defensive end a little bit. ... Corey Dillon is having an outstanding camp. He's been at every practice and has run extremely hard. Yesterday was no exception. ...Steve Gostkowski made eight straight field goals to end the practice.

Tom E. Curran

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