Guard Joel Bitonio said the Eagles got too close to Deshaun Watson, knocking the ball out of his hand, on Tuesday.
Man-mountain Dawand Jones got involved in some pushing and shoving to defend his teammates, and after players from both teams joined the scrum, it was quickly broken up.
As for the fight, he noted, “it’s just alpha males just going at it. When you’ve got competitors and competition going on and guys on the ground that supposedly weren’t supposed to be on the ground, some teammates might get a little heated and pushing and shoving going on, but that’s all it was. Just football at the end of the day.”
“We don’t want to fight out here,” Bitonio said. “We want to get better and when two teams are competing, things are going to get fired up. So it happens. But coach tried to calm us down and when he has the offense and their defense, we try and control those situations.“Oh yeah,” he said. “I mean that’s why you do two days because three days it’d be a blood bath the last day, so even two days gets a little bit chippy the second day.
“I mean it’s just in our practice, you protect the quarterback,” he said. “You don’t want to come close to the quarterback, you don’t want to take cheap shots, things like that where there might’ve been a couple of questionable plays both ways today.”
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