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Boston Globe  Protecting the QB  Brady monitoring his throws in
preseason  FOXBOROUGH -- He says he feels 22, but Tom Brady
knows better. There's no page in the football playbook to turn
back time.  In four days, the Patriots' star quarterback and
soon-to-be father will turn 30, a reminder he's no longer the
fourth-string but confident rookie who first arrived in town in
2000. He's reached a different point in his career, and the
evidence is there for all to see on the practice fields at
training camp.  Brady is taking a step back.  "One thing I'm
doing that's a little bit different is I'm really monitoring my
throws in the preseason," he said yesterday after the team's hot
and muggy morning practice. "Before I'd come out and I'd throw
100 balls a day -- and it's 200 in two-a-days -- and you go,
'Gosh, after four days why is my arm sore?' I just try to
understand how much I'm throwing and the type of throws we're
making. Everybody has to get ready d