Dolphins notes from Monday
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BY DAVID J. NEAL
• As expected, running back Ronnie Brown missed Monday morning's practice to go to an uncle's funeral.
• When the first team offense went into team drills, L.J. Shelton was at right tackle instead of Anthony Alabi, who had been working there with some difficulty while recovering from an offseason surgery. Alabi left the practice field limping, seemingly favoring his left leg. His offseason surgery was on the right knee.
• Chris Liwienski took some snaps at right tackle late in the morning practice. Though signed as a free agent to play guard, Liwienski started one game at right tackle for Arizona last season and all 32 games for Minnesota in 2001 and 2002. Should Liwienski move to right tackle, it opens a spot for guard/center Rex Hadnot. Hadnot, the starting center the last two seasons, has been taking snaps with the second team while rookies Drew Mormino and Samson Satele hold down guard and center with the first team.
• Cameron said they discovered Monday that 270-pound fullback Reagan Mauia can play tailback in a pinch, and the Dolphins will play him there sometimes in the preseason. Talk about a change of pace. In team drills, the Dolphins running backs -- 5-8, 223-pound Jesse Chatman; 5-10, 205-pound Ray Perkins; 5-10, 191-pound Lorenzo Booker -- seem willing to bounce everything outside. Looks nice in training camp, but usually doesn't work so well in games unless you've got Booker's M3 speed and maneuverability. There was something nice about seeing Mauia just take it up the gut in a full pads practice and pound it until his helmet came off on a carry in Monday's morning practice.
• Mauia's hardest contact on that carry was with safety Yeremiah Bell, back after missing Saturday's practice with a hip flexor injury suffered Friday night.
''It's still a little bit sore,'' Bell said. ``But as far as me going out there and doing what I need to do, it didn't affect me at all. It felt good enough where I felt like if I went out and got hit on it, I'd be OK.''
• To steal a term from the late Hank Stram's famous Super Bowl IV sideline chatter, there was too much leakage in the pass protection Monday morning. Confusion reigned, possibly because of how offensive linemen were being shifted around. Matt Roth raced in unblocked for a ''sack.'' Jason Taylor picked up two of them lining up in sort of a middle linebacker spot and blitzing. Jim Maxwell had one, too.
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