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Site seeing: Tuesday morning

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First, we start with a verdict regarding cornerback Kevin Hobbs, who was largely pinned for blame when tight end Kris Wilson caught a 32-yard pass. After all, Hobbs was the closest defender and the one the cameras caught looking around all flustered. Except there was a reason he was...
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Camp Mora: Day 15

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SEAHAWKS TRAINING CAMP: Day 15One practice, Open, Pads, 2 hours Moore gives more: The biggest hit of the Monday's practice came courtesy of one of Seattle's smallest players. Undrafted free agent Devin Moore collided with cornerback Kevin Hobbs, who ended up taking a seat...
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Walter Jones left practice early

Left tackle Walter Jones left practice after participating in an 11-on-11 drill. He took one knee and as the team went to the next phase of practice, walked off with the trainer.
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Seahawks' open-practice coverage on Twitter

The Seattle Seahawks' practice Monday afternoon from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. I'll be offering periodic updates via my Twitter account.
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Mailbag: You ask, we answer

Question from nellybelly, who may or may not be related to JellyBelly. Q: Whatever happened to koren robinson??? Can someone please tell me, is he still on the team or what? Read more...
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Site seeing: Monday morning

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"The Seahawks have had internal discussions about possibly being interested in adding another running back. If it were me running the Seahawks, I would be looking very hard to fill this need."   -- Michael Lombardi, National Football Post The temptation was...
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Taking a microscope to exhibition opener

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3 THINGS WE LEARNED 1. Defensive end Nick Reed has got some football smarts, which he showed by reading a pump fake from the Chargers No. 3 quarterback and falling back in position to pick off the pass. Reed also had the speed to provide pressure, registering a sack. Reed isn...
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Nick Reed-y and willing

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Who helped himself in Saturday's exhibition game? Well, how about rookie defensive end Nick Reed? There can't be any doubt about that. He intercepted a pass, shared a sack and spent the better part of Saturday night making a case for why he should be the fifth defensive end...
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Seahawks win exhibition opener

Zach Jones summarized the Seahawks' exhibition opener at San Diego: SAN DIEGO -- Jim Mora's first exhibition game with the Seahawks won't win any beauty contests, but three turnovers by his defense and an opportunistic offense were enough to secure a win over the Chargers...
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Into the great wide open

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The bounce is back in Burleson's gameBy Danny O'Neil, The Seattle TimesNate Burleson is back and some say he hasn't lost a step, which is a surprise considering he's not quite one year removed from surgery to repair a torn knee ligament. He's a frontline player...
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Exhibition game status

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Jones-ing for action: Left tackle Walter Jones practiced for the first time since the opening day of training camp. He had missed 12 days because of back spasms. He won't play in Saturday's exhibition game at San Diego and practiced with the scout team: "I don't know...
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Walter Jones returns to practice

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Left tackle Walter Jones return to practice on Thursday -- an observation passed along by Seattle Times photographer Dean Rutz. Jones had not practiced since the first day of training camp, and had been suffering from back spasms.His return allows Sean Locklear to move back to right...
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Aaron Curry's high-school coach

Has the best name ever. Milton Butts. Isn't that a fantastic name for a football coach? He coached Curry at E.E. Smith, where he played JV as a freshman and was actually a defensive end as a sophomore. A small defensive end, and by the end of that sophomore season, he lost his...
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Site seeing: Thursday morning

Chris Sencer returns to practiceBy Danny O'Neil, The Seattle Times And I thought I'd pass along some tid-bits from a future story that I'm working on regarding Aaron Curry. In college, he wanted to change his number to a single digit, but coach Jim Grobe has a hard and...
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Running diary of "Hard Knocks" season debut

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There's a butterfly in the opening montage. Why? Because it's orange and black, matching the Bengals' team colors. Then comes this cleated foot, scaring the butterfly off, which seems so very mean. Weird. Also, Coach Marv Lewis starts training camp with a tailgate party...
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Roster breakdown: The defensive version

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Defensive endsAverage kept 2002-'08: 4.7POS.2008'07'06 '05'04'03'02 DE5554544Pencil them in: Cory Redding and Patrick Kerney are the starters; Darryl Tapp and Lawrence Jackson the backups.Roster hotspot: The competition for the fifth defensive end will be...
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Lofa Tatupu, Chris Spencer return to practice

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SEAHAWKS TRAINING CAMP: Day 13One practice, Closed to the public, full pads, 2 hours, 20 minutes  Roll call: LB Lofa Tatupu returned to practice after sitting out Tuesday's workouts, same for center Chris Spencer, who was back after suffering a sprained ankle on Friday. Spencer...
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Site seeing: Wednesday morning

The wait is over for Aaron CurryBy Steve Kelley, The Seattle Times"In one afternoon, his entire way of life changed gears. In one afternoon, Curry went from a 60 mile-an-hour existence to a speed-of-light career."   -- Steve Kelley, The Seattle Times "...
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Camp Mora: Day 12, Evening Summary

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WR Nate Burleson sat out practice, resting his surgically repaired knee. OL Cory Withrow also missed practice. He appeared to injure his left leg during the morning workout. Three players returned to practice in the evening: LB D.D. Lewis, DE Cory Redding and OT Ray Willis, who have...
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Video: Camp Mora has soundtrack supplement

The Seahawks practiced with crowd noise blaring onto their indoor field:
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Mora foresees change on Tapp

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Darryl Tapp has played a wild card at times during this training camp. He's a defensive end, but there are times in the Seahawks' third-down pass-rush package that he has lined up as a linebacker, shifting between gaps at the line of scrimmage. On Monday, there was a time he...
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Site seeing: ESPN.com's "Camp Confidential"

Seahawks' new prioritiesBy Mike Sando, ESPN.com Mike Sando checked in at Seahawks' training camp at the end of the last week and over the weekend, and he provided a great synopsis of the differences between the training-camp protocol of Jim Mora and Mike Holmgren, whose tendencies...
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Seahawks' exhibition-game availability to be decided Thursday

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Coach Jim Mora said the team won't determine who will play and how much in Saturday's exhibition game at San Diego until a meeting on Thursday morning."We'll come to our final conclusions there," Mora said. "A lot of that will depend on who's available...
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Training camp takes its toll

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Camp Mora Soreness Seattle Times columnist Steve Kelley gets credit for that moniker after the Seahawks had their largest list of practice absences: WR Courtney Taylor (knee) and WR T.J. Houshmandzadeh (ankle) were back practicing, but that was dwarfed by the list of absences: S Deon...
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