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Brown grinding out camp - 07/31/2007 - MiamiHerald.com

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Football training camps are about identifying toughness as much as anything. You see how the mind handles the physical toll, and there isn't a better laboratory in the NFL than Dolphins camp, where blasting heat and wilting humidity form sauna conditions that tell you, as coach Cam Cameron puts it, ``which guys can withstand the grind.''

The grind hit Ronnie Brown as hard as it could Monday.

He took all but one handoff with the first team, in full padding, in weather that made you want to nominate the inventor of air conditioning for sainthood. The workload melted 4 pounds off the third-year running back, and made him bend in exhaustion once, hands on knees. When the practice ended, nobody stripped off his helmet quicker to drench his steaming head in cool water.

The grind hit Brown like it meant to knock him out.

Brown hit back.

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