Coach Belichick always told us a story before we’d go on that last break after the mandatory minicamp in June. It was about Bernie Kosar. The conditioning test is a series of sprints, and depending on what position you play, it could be 40, 50 or 60 yards. The quarterbacks had to do 50-yard sprints and he’d talk about how Bernie Kosar was one of the slowest quarterbacks in the history of the NFL, but every year he passed the test. He’d tell us if Bernie Kosar could pass that test, anyone in the room could pass it. You could train specifically to pass the conditioning test by running the test two to three times a week in the last few weeks before training camp.
5 rookies failed physicals today, which means some of them probably failed this conditioning run.