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LOS ANGELES – Chris Petersen is not given much to silliness. So it was not surprising when he stopped, midway into a sentence, when he spied something amiss. Across a hotel ball room, Washington quarterback Jake Browning was wearing a bright blue squid hat and twirling a hula hoop and slowly gyrating for a slow-motion camera, for some reason, drawing laughter from those watching – and slight unease from his coach.