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August 2, 2006

Patriots ``grinding through camp''

Some additional exerpts from Bill Belichick's morning press conference:

Belichick's opening remarks
``We’re grinding through camp. Two yesterday. Hit one today. We’re back to two-a-days the next couple days after that. We’re starting to get into some more situational things as each day goes by, and hopefully by the end of the week, we’ll have the majority of our basic systems involved, installed, but also we’ll have covered a lot of the situational things that come up in a game, so that we’ll be kind of ready to start preparing for the next preseason game next week.''

(The Patriots first preseason game is Aug. 11 at 8 p.m. against the Atlanta Falcons at the Georgia Dome.)

Belichick was asked if the extreme heat would affect how he conducted practice this afternoon.
BB: You know the games that are scheduled we’ve got to play. So I don’t know what those conditions will be. Some will be hot. Some will be cold. Some will be windy. Some won’t be. We’ve got to play through it. So I don’t think we might do anything that will take any undue risk, but our players are well-conditioned athletes and they’ve trained and we’re going to practice.

Are you expecting Richard Seymour - who opened training camp on the physically unable to perform (PUP) list - back today?
BB: He’s day-to-day
Is the fact he hasn’t been out at practice, is that at all linked to his contract status?
BB: That doesn’t have anything to do with it. Nothing.

And with Tedy Bruschi, can you confirm that he might have had an injury to his wrist?
BB: He’s day-to-day. . . . His wrist is probably sore. I’m sure he’s got a lot of other sore body parts. Day-to-day.

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