Tomase continues to dissect Dillon

[pats1]

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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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[marty]

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1)Operation Freezeout???? WTF is that!! Sorry, that's just a little to juvenile for me.

2) I've always loved Scar, the man is just amazing!

 

[CrazyDave]

"Operation Freezeout"? Many were expecting? I did'nt expect anything of the sort.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

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.

It is quite possible and becomming more common to see guys that age in very good shape, despite the overall trend to obesity by fat lazy ass Americans in general.

What I used to love about training camp at Smithfield was you could stand on the sideline right next to guys like Weis. Like the Tuner before him, Weis was a consummate wise ass and scathingly funny in his ongoing monolog player critiques. The Gillette training camp experience though worthwhile, pales in comparison.

 

[LloydBraun]

28

What is Tomase's problem with Dillon? This is crazy. Tomase and Felger appear to be entering shock jock material as journalists.

Perhaps Tomase hates Dillon simply because Dillon hates the media. These clowns will eat their words when 28 runs wild.