At his midday news conference, Eric Mangini made a few unmistakable points about the penalty lap he ordered his offense to run two hours into this morning's practice, detailed in my previous blog.

In general, the head coach said: "That was a combination of two or three things. I explained to the team after practice, we have all day to practice. I'm perfectly content to stay out there all day. I e… More

This morning's training camp practice was a Washington monument of sorts.

Leon Washington returned to uniform and to action after missing the previous two practices due to personal reasons. And the second-year scatback didn't look like he missed a step, especially on a dumpoff from Chad Pennington that No. 29 took darting and speeding deep into the secondary. The crowd of about 1,400 applauded.