The Cowboys and Saints turned a Tuesday joint practice into a full-on brawl, with multiple fights breaking out and punches flying as the session spiraled out of control.
One clip from the workout appeared to show a Saints player throwing a punch at running back Javonte Williams, and things only escalated from there. Cowboys edge rusher Donovan Ezeiruaku was among the players swinging, and another video captured more chaos as the teams continued to scrap.
“Another fight. This is absolutely out of control,” Nick Underhill of NewOrleans.Football wrote.
The chaos didn’t stop there. Caelen Carson was later involved in another scuffle with a Saints player, and the scene had plenty of pushing, shoving and takedown-style wrestling mixed in. One sequence even drew a “German Suplex” comparison in the clip description.
Another video showed more pushing and shoving between the teams after a tackle on Javonte Williams earlier in practice. In that instance, there didn’t appear to be any punches thrown.
Ezeiruaku was already on notice for his temper. Earlier in training camp, he was kicked out of practice for throwing a punch at right tackle Terence Steele.
“He’s an incredible play style guy. He plays the game the right way, but at the same time we have to have a plan,” head coach Brian Schottenheimer said of Ezeiruaku. “He gets hot and when he feels his temperature rising, what is the plan?"
"He and I discussed a couple different options," Schottenheimer added. "I think we’ve got a good thing in place, but again, I don’t [want to] take it away, the edge that he plays on, but when you throw a punch, you’ve gone over the edge."
Whatever plan was in place didn’t keep Tuesday from boiling over.
Joint practice scuffles can get overblown, but this one clearly crossed that line. The Cowboys and Saints are set to meet again in preseason Week 3 on Friday, Aug. 28, and it’ll be worth watching to see whether any of that bad blood shows up when the games count more than the drills.
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