We’re up and running here at the Ministry of Pats Propaganda. With training camp opening tomorrow I’m officially excited. The Pats will be doing their conditioning test today and it should be interesting to see who doesn’t pass and who ends up on PUP.

The PUP list is always the ultimate buzz kill to the start of training camp. Suddenly you find out certain guys that you had no idea were even injured won’t be ready to go at the start of camp.

For a detailed first hand account of what the conditioning run is like check out Mike Reiss’ interview with Tedy Bruschi here.

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.

My test was three sets of ten 50-yard sprints. You had to complete each sprint in seven seconds, and you had 30 seconds in between each sprint. In between the three sets of ten 50-yard sprints, you got a break of three minutes.

Thoughts on the Jets and Asomugha coming shortly…