NFL Joint Practices: Giants vs. Lions Fight Analysis

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00:00Here's a look at what we had yesterday, the Giants and the

00:06Lions. Players got into a scuffle during their joint

00:09practices. That time of year, says Ari Mayrov. Danny Rogers,

00:14who is the Lions team reporter, said it was the most fight she

00:18had ever seen at a single practice. So, buy or sell DRS

00:22to you. Joint practice fights are tired like they're old news

00:28at this point. Nah, sell that. You gotta have fights here.

00:31It's ingrained in society, in the NFL, in high school football,

00:35and in college football. Now, typically, in the summer camp,

00:37it's so hot and dusty out there, you just fight yourself.

00:40It's better to fight another opponent and sort of rally

00:42around but also keep in mind why these fights are starting

00:45here. The guys are trying tooth and nail to make rosters and a

00:48lot of times, it's not necessarily the starters

00:50fighting each other. It's the backups trying to show that

00:53they have heart. They're not gonna back down but also, from

00:55a Detroit Lions perspective, they're built in and ingrained

00:59with Dan Campbell's, their head coach, that they're gonna be

01:01the bullies. They're gonna beat you around. So, don't think the

01:04New York Giants coming to even day one of that practice are

01:06like, well, one thing straight. I don't know if there's gonna

01:08be a scoreboard or not but you're not gonna come in here

01:10and punk us here in our own, you know, quote unquote,

01:13gymnasium at this point. So, I don't mind the fights here

01:16because we've all been through it. It's 90 degrees. You're

01:19irritated. You just had practice for four straight days

01:22and you get a cheap shot in the back or you get held cuz keep

01:24in mind, you're not going to get fine. Like, sure, your

01:27coach could send you to the showers early from practice but

01:30it's not a regular season football game. You're not gonna

01:32get suspended and also, things go on in practice when you have

01:35those joint practice that don't go on in games. You can hold a

01:38little bit more. You can do things that a little bit shady

01:40and the other guy is going to get upset and therefore, you're

01:43gonna be throwing punches. I don't mind the fights. It builds

01:46team camaraderie as well. It's just a thing that the NFL,

01:49college football, and high school football happens.