49ers’ Defense Plans On Tackling This Year

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Published: July 30, 2009

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... the practice schedule that Head Coach Mike Singletary greeted them with.

The most common adjectives those speaking to us ink-stained wretches used to describe it were "rough," "brutal," and "intense."

The adjectives they were thinking, however, would probably not be suitable for a family web site.

The most telling example I can provide that this won't be Club Med comes from ILB Takeo Spikes. He went on and on (albeit, with our gentle prodding) about the grueling training regimen he put himself through the past five weeks in Atlanta along with teammate Parys Haralson and other noted NFLers such as Osi Umeniyora and Hines Ward.

Spikes explained that he and the others worked out twice a day for all five weeks, and that the training involved open-hand boxing incorporated with specific football drills.

He said that this is the most prepared he's been for a training camp his whole career.

Yet when I told him that Singletary said in his p...

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