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Peter King did a story on the Redskins’ training camp, and there’s one snippet from his article that I think even a non-fan will find interesting…

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Dodgeball with Jason Campbell and Colt Brennan

He’s a stickler for doing things the right way every time, as most longtime quarterback coaches are. On Thursday, Zorn set up a drill that looked totally bizarre. He had three of the four quarterbacks on the roster get in a circle, with Campbell in the middle holding a football, poised as if he was about to pass. The quarterbacks on the perimeter took turns firing Pilates exercise balls at Campbell. “Dodgeball,” it’s called.

Said Zorn: “I want the quarterbacks not to just move their bodies slightly. I want them to move a lot, to get used to a rusher coming at them.” You kind of figured Zorn, a heady sort, would come up with things like this.