The Houston Texans and Washington Redskins held a joint practice on Saturday, but it didn’t go as planned.
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He also felt they needed to get tougher. The tensions began with a large amount of trash talking during the warm ups and first drills of the day. With coaches from both squads unable to subdue their players any better than the officials with whistles, the punches flew and the piles of brawlers grew like fast-mutating blobs. Later Redskins’ DeAngelo Hall told media the fights were a result of of some heavy hitting by Washington’s Matt Jones on Friday.
“They got here out right here making an attempt to be robust guys at the moment, nevertheless it did not work”, Redskins defensive lineman stated.
These sorts of things happen when you put two opposing forces that are chomping at the bit to partake in some actual contact, and so long as nobody gets seriously injured, it’s unlikely that we’d ever see anything of serious outcome come down from the league offices after a skirmish like this. “It’s too bad, but that’s just what happens with two competitive teams”, he said. Now we’ve got a full-out brawl from a joint practice. That’s where I am today. Redskins defensive end Chris Baker said he sensed that Texans coaches were angry with their teams’ effort the first two days and instructed them to play harder on Saturday.
“I think (Gruden) was proud of us sticking together”, Roberts said of the fracas.
We’ll likely find out the truth soon about why the fight started because there’s a good chance this will all make its way onto Hard Knocks, since the Texans are this year’s team. Smith strained his groin “just a hair” but coaches are hopeful the second round pass rusher can go tomorrow. “Coach Callahan teaches that it’s all about technique and fundamentals”.
On the other practice field, where Washington’s defense was going against Houston’s offense, Redskins veteran linebacker Adam Hayward found himself exchanging blows with Texans offensive tackle Aaron Adams before a pile of players fell on top of them.
Gruden added that three consecutive days in pads probably wasn’t the best idea.
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“We thought it was invaluable work [Aug”. Things started to get chippy after Vince Wilfork absolutely destroyed a Redskins offensive lineman and blew up a rushing play in the backfield. He remains sidelined, but O’Brien said Friday “he’s going to be back at some point”. Undrafted rookie Kendall Lamm, who most of the kids and those in attendance didn’t know about (#63) jogged the length of the field to pay attention to the fans, signing some stuff and taking a few pictures, before hurrying to catch the team bus.
