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QB takes some hits

The fun as training camp ended extended to players taking shots at quarterback Tom Brady for a photo spread in GQ magazine that has Brady posing with animals. Light and center Dan Koppen taped up clips of the photos, one of which included a baby goat. Brady said he had to listen to teammates talk to him all day in the voice of Hannibal Lecter, the villain from ''Silence of the Lambs." This harassment follows the ribbing Brady took after appearing on ''Saturday Night Live" in his underwear and in other magazines shirtless. All in all, it's been a revealing offseason for Brady. ''Coach always says just because they ask you to do something doesn't mean you have to do it, which he told us all again today, of course, referring to me," said Brady. ''I guess I'm a slow learner." . . . Brady welcomed four children to Gillette Stadium as part of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts . . . Coach Bill Belichick said the decision on who would play and for how long against New Orleans tomorrow had yet to be made. Therefore, an ESPN report that he and Saints coach Jim Haslett had made a pact to play their starters into the third quarter of the exhibition game at Gillette Stadium caught him by surprise. ''I haven't talked to Jim since the owners meetings in Hawaii [in late March], so that's news to me," Belichick said.

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