LeSean McCoy and Trent Cole were just the undercard at Philadelphia Eagles training camp. Less than 24 hours after those two tussled in practice, Jeremy Maclin and Bradley Fletcher teed off the main event with a haymaker-filled tilt on Monday morning.
Eagles camp getting chippy
What happened to brotherly love?
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Bradley Fletcher, Jeremy Maclin mix it up. Several haymakers exchanged (helmets on) before they're broken up.
— Sheil Kapadia (@SheilKapadia) July 28, 2014 For starters, when are football players going to stop trying to throw punches at someone wearing a hard plastic helmet? There is just no situation in which that ends well.
Maclin, a receiver, and Fletcher, a cornerback, had been mouthing off at each other earlier in practice before it finally boiled over.
Here’s some shaky video of the aftermath, which unfortunately doesn’t catch any of the punches.
Maclin and Fletcher’s tale of the tape makes them an even matchup (both 6-feet, separated by two pounds), but McCoy and Cole, who had to be separated on Sunday, are a different story. McCoy, the 5’11, 208-pound running back, is in an entirely different weight class than the 6’3, 270-pound linebacker.
But McCoy wasn’t backing off.
“The whole camp so far, he has been touching me a little too much,” McCoy told NESN.com. “I had to let him know it’s OK if you can’t cover me.”
Head coach Chip Kelly doesn’t sound too concerned over the chippiness.
“It’s no different than sometimes little kids don’t get along very well and throw Tonka trucks at each other,” Kelly told NJ.com on Monday.
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