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05-06-2003, 01:10 AM
Universally detested by veterans who would prefer to spend Saturday morning hitting a golf ball instead of a blocking dummy, embraced by coaches who insist a team can never have enough organized offseason conditioning, the three-days of activities that transpired in most NFL precincts last weekend might be the game's most inaptly-named pursuit.
Long ago dubbed minicamps, the three days of practices in T-shirts and shorts occasionally take on maximum significance, and that was the case over the weekend at more than a few franchises.
For the most part, the most recent mini-camps offered the typical opportunity for getting rookies onto the field, and ogling them in three dimensions instead of just on a videotape monitor. But in many of the mini-camps where veterans also participated, coaches turned the sessions into on-field laboratories, as they adjusted depth charts to compensate for the usual offseason attrition and tinkered with human spackling in an attempt to patch holes.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/columns/pasquarelli_len/1549461.html
Long ago dubbed minicamps, the three days of practices in T-shirts and shorts occasionally take on maximum significance, and that was the case over the weekend at more than a few franchises.
For the most part, the most recent mini-camps offered the typical opportunity for getting rookies onto the field, and ogling them in three dimensions instead of just on a videotape monitor. But in many of the mini-camps where veterans also participated, coaches turned the sessions into on-field laboratories, as they adjusted depth charts to compensate for the usual offseason attrition and tinkered with human spackling in an attempt to patch holes.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/columns/pasquarelli_len/1549461.html