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August 1, 2007

Seeing yellow

For the second day in a row, officials worked practice today. They made liberal use of the yellow flags they carry with them.

The officials called a number of penalties, most on the defense and several of those on Rodney Harrison, who obviously is back to being his aggressive self.

``You try too hard sometimes and you make mistakes or you get out of position, you get tired and you make dumb penalties,’’ Mike Vrabel said before heading back to the locker room. ``That will cost you in the regular season, it will cost you in practice. The type of effort we had today probably wasn’t one of our better ones.’’

Other features of practice included more good work from Jabar Gafney.

The wideout, who was singled out by coach Bill Belichick earlier in the day for having a good camp, caught three touchdown passes in a 10-play stretch as the Pats worked on their goalline offense. He had others, too, from both Tom Brady and Matt Cassel as the Pats worked in pads in 11-on-11 drills.

Tedy Bruschi on new linebacker Adalius Thomas:

``Versatile,’’ Bruschi responded when asked about Thomas. ``In three downs when a guy’s got his hand down, then he’s playing linebacker stopping the run and then he’s dropping back into coverage. You don’t see that type of player a lot. That’s what he brings.’’

``I think he’s a great locker room guy,’’ Vrabel said when asked about Thomas. ``I get along great with him

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