Eric Mangini made no excuses for the heat or for his long morning practice in the middle of it. (Did you expect him to?)

"The heat's bothering people, everybody's tired," Mangini said. "But heat, cold, rain noise, whatever it is, we've got to be able to function effectively regardless of the outside conditions."

As for the two-hour, 42-minute length, the coach explained that practice "is schedul… More