Training Camp - Day 12

Another big day at Training Camp for the Dolphins. It's a two-practice day (9am/5pm) and it's Friday. I would expect today by the afternoon practice they will start working on the upcoming Jacksonville game. I'd expect to see Chad Henne get more reps with the first team than usual starting then. The Dolphins have one 'walkthrough' practice tomorrow, and have Sunday off.

Got loads of photos for you today. First up, BrianL was back in action yesterday afternoon and sent these shots. Home SuperBowl 2010, meanwhile, is at practice this morning and is sending photos faster than I can post them, so keep checking back for new ones. Great job guys!

Pat White tries on shoes whilst talking to Parcells whilst throwing the football. Now THAT's multi-tasking!

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Put the sharpie in your sharpie holder...

From left: James Robinson, Ronnie Brown, Chad Pennington, Chris Williams.

Camarillo extends for pass from Henne in front of Karl Dorrel's watchful eye.

Pat White drops back during some work with the 1st team o-line.

• I'd love to get HSB 2010's take on practice, as Edgar Thompson is reporting that Pat White had a pretty good practice today, including finding Ernest Wilford on a fade for a TD on the final play of practice. What is Wilford doing running a fade route anyway? That's not a typical TE route, and definitely not a typical route for someone as speed-inhibited as Wilford. The Devil's in the details, and I'd like to hear if this was a goal-line play, etc.
• Brian Hartline has had an impressive camp making lots of reaching grabs and standing out amongst the rookie class, but I can't get over how pissed off Coach Sparano was with Hartline after the 'hold-onto-the-ball' drill the other day. He implied that Hartline wasn't showing he was ready yet. Basically, he didn't seem very confident in Hartline, despite his 'flashing' to spectators.
• The linebacker competition is out-of-this-world right now. If the season started today, Porter and JT would be the starters, but the backups - Wake, Moses, Anderson, and George have all been showing up to camp. Erik Walden seems to have dropped off the radar lately. But it's still early. The Dolphins aren't going to release any pass-rushers early on in this camp.
• Per Edgar: "White almost hooked up with Hartline for a 3rd TD. But Jason Allen forced Hartline out of bounds in the end zone after he made a terrific catch in traffic."

• Quick Update on the contest - the deadline has come and gone and we've had the biggest volume of entries yet! I have already done the preliminary scoring and technically, anyone of the contestants can win, though a handful are out to great starts. Due to the fact that the rest of the questions are speculative, relying on the Jacksonville game, AND the fact that on question 10 you actually LOSE points, it's possibly the person in first place now could end up in the bottom of the pile by the end of this.

• I see the Jets game is live on NFLN in half an hour. Someone get the chips-n-dip, the comedy movie is about to start.
• BREAKING NEWS!!!! MATT ROTH IS NOT, I REPEAT NOT WEARING A BASEBALL CAP AT THE AFTERNOON PRACTICE!!!
• I'm fascinated by the way the media comprehends player-injuries. If a player is hurt on a Monday, they somehow consider it big news that he's still not practicing one day later. This is not a papercut, guys, this is football. As Bengals safety, Roy Williams, so eloquently put it on the first episode of Hard Knocks, "it ain't football if you ain't bleeding". This is brought on by the whole Roth, Allen, Donald Thomas thing. The injuries have been the main focus of the mainstream media, and that's fine but it doesn't need to be day to day does it? Maybe for an illness, like David martin's food poisoning last week, but do we really need to be told every five minutes that DT is still working with the 2nd team and Shawn Murphy is still starting, and Matt Roth is wearing a pink sombrero, etc? ENOUGH - WE GET IT!!

I'll be back later to ridicule the Jets.