Veteran NFL assistant coach and New England quarterbacks coach Dick Rehbein died during training camp. The 45-year-old Rehbein died of heart failure at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The Patriots said Rehbein, who had heart disease, checked himself into the hospital complaining of discomfort. Rehbein joined the Patriots in February 2000. Rehbein, who had an internal pacemaker because of cardiomyopathy, suffered an apparent heart attack and extensive resuscitation efforts failed. Rehbein coached for 23 seasons in the NFL, beginning in 1979 with the Green Bay Packers. He worked eight seasons with the Vikings from 1985 to 1991 and eight seasons with the New York Giants between 1992 and 1999. \"Dick was one of those guys who was just a prince of a person,\" Falcons coach Dan Reeves said. \"You just can\'t imagine that you lost him.\" \"He was always smiling, extremely bright, a
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