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FOXBOROUGH -- The Patriots have moved their practice inside the Dana-Farber Fieldhouse today due to rain in the region.

"We always prefer to go out on the grass," coach Bill Belichick said at his morning press conference (10:50 a.m.). "But we'll go inside today. We've been inside plenty of times before, so we'll be all right."

To this point of the season, the Patriots have not had an indoor practice on a Wednesday, Thursday or Friday leading up to a game.

"Weather-wise, it's been good," Belichick said. "Some of the weather that hasn't been as good has been on the weekends, or times when we really weren't involved in practice situations. It's a good facility. Certainly, it's a huge improvement from what we had when I came here and we were on the tennis courts, or whatever it was. The quality is practice is so much better than what it was practicing in the old bubble. It's not a big difference, just less wind, less weather conditions. But we can crank the noise up louder."