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Warren’s a star
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:rocker:It didn’t take Junior Seau long to learn what his new teammates already knew.
Shortly after joining the Patriots in August, Seau offered up an unsolicited opinion to old friend Rodney Harrison. “Junior called to me out of the blue, ‘This Ty Warren guy is special,’ †Harrison recalled earlier this week.
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“Ty is definitely a hidden secret,†Seau said yesterday. “He’s a guy that has been playing under the big boy, No. 93 (Richard Seymour). But when you look at Ty and you look at Vince (Wilfork), we’ve got some players here who really, really haven’t scraped what their potential is.
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Warren has elevated his game from dependable to dominant this season, sparking the Patriots to a 4-1 start.
“I’m self-motivated to be the best player I can be for myself and for the team,†said Warren, who has a team-leading 38 tackles to go with a pair of sacks and a forced fumble he recovered himself.
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While many of his teammates headed home, Warren stuck around Gillette Stadium.
It’s all part of a vow he made in the offseason to stick with his workout routine during the season. That’s meant spending time with strength and conditioning coach Mike Woicik on off days, maintaining his fitness level with resistance training and speed drills in addition to weightlifting.
“To keep the body the way it was meant to be,†said the 6-foot-5, 300-pound Warren, who estimated his body fat at about 15 percent.
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At the start of each week, the coaching staff hands every player a list of duties specific to the next game. Warren made light of the situation — but wasn’t laughing — when he said he writes that list down a hundred times to burn into his brain.