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The_Philster
05-05-2003, 07:54 PM
Quarterback Jeff Blake spent the weekend throwing to a bunch of receivers who grew up watching him play in the NFL, and it's going to take awhile for them to fully adjust to each other, Blake said.

Blake put his arm strength on display in the three-day minicamp, throwing one pass Saturday that sailed about 65 yards into the wind. Most of his long passes wound up incomplete, although he's confident that will start to change by this fall.

"It's going to take a year for everybody to become accustomed to each other," Blake said. "Yet within that year we still have to be productive and win football games."

Blake was impressed with the receiving corps, which features just one player, Larry Foster, with more than two years' experience....
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