Several skirmishes broke out between the Dolphins and Bears during their joint practice on Friday, at least one of which Miami coach Mike McDaniel jumped in the middle of in an effort to break up the fracas.
Bart Scott joins"Get Up" to question Miami's locker room leadership and how a lack of strong culture could hurt their season. Marcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as a beat reporter covering the Buffalo Bills, before switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021.
The former Carolina Panthers beat writer for the Charlotte Observer won the APSE award for breaking news and the South Carolina Press Association award for enterprise writing in 2018., who did not practice Friday, McDaniel ran into the middle of the pack of players, yelling at them to stop."I think that's very dangerous -- we need our head coach, you know what I'm saying?" Fitzpatrick said."We don't want him to get hurt, so I appreciate it. But I think we could get 'em separated ourselves." McDaniel has made clear to players his disdain for fighting at practice, and Bears coach Ben Johnson said before practice that his players knew the consequences if they fought. "He thinks fights are a waste of time -- we're here to practice," he said."If you throw a punch in a game, you're going to get ejected. So that's how he's looking at it, and we're really the same way. We're not trying to fight, we're just trying to practice, go against each other, get some good looks and then go home."Brooks, one of the Dolphins' leaders in the locker room, is someone who holds his teammates accountable, Fitzpatrick said, and sometimes emotions might boil over. "He's another dude that's passionate about the game. He loves the game," Fitzpatrick said."Even today, he was holding people to a high standard and it becomes confrontational -- but I think that's necessary when you do anything to a high standard. "He's a guy that I appreciate playing with, and he's another guy whose energy is infectious and great for our team."
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