June 14, 2006 on 2:02 pm
Minicamp observations, part deux
Posted by:
John Tomase
A lot of the same stuff today as yesterday. None of the injured practiced (
Rodney Harrison, Dan Koppen, Daniel Graham, Eugene Wilson),
Deion Branch stayed home, and once again
Corey Dillon looked slow. A few points:
1. We’re hesitant to make too big a deal of this, since training camp is six weeks away and the opener roughly three months hence, but Dillon looks like a guy who’s going to be handing off his running duties to rookie
Laurence Maroney. Wearing braces on both knees, Dillon did not run or cut sharply. He rounded off many of his cuts and spent most of his free time on one knee. On the plus side, he’s talking to Maroney as they move from drill to drill, so the Operation Freezeout that many of us expected hasn’t come to fruition.
2. Offensive line coach
Dante Scarnecchia is a physical freak. Wearing cutoff sleeves and looking like an all-around badass, the man they call “Scar” runs 100-yard sprints with the linemen and then sprints some more on his own after everyone else has left the field. He’s 58 going on 25. The Patriots have kindly asked us not to report anything coaches say during practice, which is a shame, because Scarnecchia could fill this blog by himself. We’d love to tell you how he refers to what he considers weak blocking as “a pillow fight,” but we’re not allowed.
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