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TAMPA, Fla. -- Hue Jackson is looking for any edge he can get to turn the Cleveland Browns into winners.The first-year coach welcomed an opportunity to bring his team to Florida for a pair of joint practices with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this week, figuring its not only helpful work leading into a preseason game between the clubs, but also could prove beneficial when the Browns visit the Sunshine State again next month.It is a little hot, it is a little humid, and Im glad that it is, Jackson said Tuesday. The hotter the better because thats the way it is going to be as we start during the (regular) season against Miami.The teams will share the practice fields at One Buccaneer Place again Wednesday, then face each other in a nationally televised exhibition Friday night.Jackson wants to gauge the Browns response to the unusual training camp routine. The Bucs already have experience with the uncommon structure after spending most of last week in Jacksonville for joint workouts before playing the Jaguars.Jackson hopes the trip will help his players bond before they play five of their first seven regular season games on the road.We are going to meet with them, obviously, but Im also going to give them a chance to be around each other a little bit more in a different setting, he said. Thats important, too, because we need to know how to handle this.Dirk Koetter, Tampa Bays first-year coach, said the Bucs are benefiting from extra work against players, as well as offensive and defensive schemes, they dont face in practice every day.Cleveland is a 3-4 defense, and were going to see like eight 3-4 teams over the course of the year, so two extra days of working against a 3-4 are huge, Koetter said.And then theyre a zone-read team on offense. ... We need to see zone-read for down the road when we play teams like San Francisco and Seattle and Carolina, he added. Each team is a little bit different, but just playing and working against different guys is good.Tampa Bays revamped secondary, featuring free agent acquisition Brent Grimes and first-round draft pick Vernon Hargreaves III, is being tested this week by a talented group of Cleveland receivers led by Josh Gordon and Terrelle Pryor.Gordon sat out all of last season while serving a suspension for violating the NFLs substance abuse policy and figures to make his preseason debut on Friday night. He is not eligible to play in the regular season until Week 5 against the New England Patriots.Itd be great, Gordon said. Im working the kinks out here at practice and back at home in Cleveland as much as possible to get ready for it. ... 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Parramattas former chief executive and its ex-football manager have admitted to using merchandise sales and inflated invoices to honour under-the-table payments to the NRL clubs players.Former Eels boss Scott Seward and football manager Jason Irvine also told the NRL during its investigations that by the end of the 2014 season, $589,000 was owed to players in unwritten deals.The players are like animals you know. They feed wherever they can, Irvine reportedly told the NRL.The pair also admitted to Seward paying the money to players by way of cash, either provided directly by suppliers or after paid into Irvines credit union account.ddddddddddddeward, also said now-Brisbane recruitment manager Peter Nolan was aware of most of the deals, and had told him not to worry as people will help us out.Irvine said he had only personally paid $6000 in cash to one player, Nathan Peats, who had demanded the money and threatened he would quit playing if he did not receive it.There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing from any player. ' ' '