The joint practice between the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints was one for the history books, and not in a good way. Reaching double digits in the number of fights, both teams were fined $500,000 by the NFL.
At one point, the practice was so wild that some people were saying the teams should call it off. Those that thought such would be completely valid as well, because it was a truly wild practice, featuring moves like a German suplex to a helmet toss. It was such a spectacle that Sportscenter actually talked about the Saints for once too.
Few positives can be gained from the situation, to be honest, because that many fights is a bad look for any team. However, if there is any positive to be gained/seen, it would be the fact that anytime a Saints player got into a scuffle, the entire team would then come to their defense. Following the practice in Oxnard, New Orleans showed that they're not a team to be messed with.
Despite the fight club, the Saints still got good work in
The Saints really showed that if you mess with one of them, you mess with all of them. In every fight that we've been able to see, any Saints player that starts getting roughed up is immediately backed up by all of his teammates. What makes those fights even better, is the fact that the team also still got good work in.
Despite the less-than-ideal environment left from the scuffles, Kellen Moore said that the Saints got what they wanted. "At the end of the day, it was pretty much what we're looking for," Moore said following the practice. "For our guys, there's some edginess to football, and we get to learn from how this one navigated. I think for our guys, we got good stuff out of this."
Given the fact that there were zero fights in the joint practices with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Los Angeles Rams, the fiasco in Oxnard luckily seems to have been a one-off thing. A practice that left players juiced up, it's one the team shouldn't have happening again. Only so much team-bonding can be gained before someone gets hurt, after all.
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