of Sean McVeigh, the Rams, head coach, and Zach, Taylor
the Bengals head coach talking about the fight that marred
yesterday's joint session.
All right, so, you know, the first thing I would say is we
did get a bunch of good work against these guys, over two
days,
missed a little bit. At the end thing, I'm glad about, I don't
know exactly what instigated it. I think
in some instances, you know, teams defending each other. And
fortunately, my understanding is nobody got hurt. And we'll
move on from it. So
not going to make a Bigger deal than what it is,
not going to. Look at point fingers on who did what,
but I think just like Zach would say, I expect our guys to
defend their teammates, vice versa, there are certain things
you just don't know exactly what occurred, but I am glad
that my understanding is nobody got injured and that's
the most important thing and
we'll move on. And
we'll look at we got enough stuff done to be able to
evaluate it just got a little scuffle e
and so we just called it. We were in the last period and we
got two really good days of work and
so was Worth getting the extra couple plays. No, so we called
it up and we got two good days of work in and now we'll go
play on Saturday.
No guys. The emotions run High. You've been working together
for two days now, and that's just some really competitive,
guys, get into a little bit.
I still hear the audio.
Alright. The audio is gone now
and I'm glad it's gone
because that that's inexcusable they're enabling this kind of
behavior. And from xiaomi, vases
perspective, what would we expect? What do we expect?
Let's not point fingers. No.
Because we would have to point fingers
at one of the greatest players in NFL history. Let's not hold
anyone accountable because we have to hold are entitled
accountable. We, you know, we
at least nobody got hurt,
at least nobody. So, what that? Nobody got hurt your lucky,
nobody got hurt. Imagine how much worse it would be. If
somebody got hurt, it's about avoiding the opportunity in
the occasion
for someone to get hurt
and
look.
One of the reasons I don't miss practicing law. When you engage
in litigation, what you're doing is you are
constantly wrestling with the aftermath of some sort of,
a worst-case scenario, somebody did something dumb, and it led
to somebody getting seriously injured. You're not, you're not
in court. There's nothing to fight about. There's no one to
sue, if something really bad didn't happen. So,
I spent years, connecting Behavior.
To consequence to what may happen
from behavior and part of what you do, when you advise people
on how to stay out of trouble, you project forward, what can
this Behavior lead to and it's obvious what this Behavior can
lead to?
And it's not enough to say
nobody got hurt. No harm, no foul. Let's just move forward.
Let's not point fingers, let's not bogged down in details,
so it doesn't surprise me that. Sean McVeigh
reacted, the way they did. It's still disappointing.
It's it's in character
for Most football coaches, specifically, Sean McVeigh
and Zack. Terra is being way too deferential. Now,
behind the scenes, he may have something else to say to Sean
McVeigh. But look,
he's not the coach of the Bengals without Sean McVeigh.
He's not going to bite the hand that fed him. His head coaching
job that has allowed him to have
Joe. Burrows, is quarterback and a team that will contend
for years to come. So, he's got a level of gratitude to Shawn
McVeigh and he agreed to go do these practices. Knowing
that Aaron Donald, it's a bit of a hothead.
Ed, you walked your players into this Lion's Den, so
it's kind of hard for Zack Taylor to say much about it
now, because once you start asking him questions,
The truthful answers, eventually are
I kind of knew there was, you know, a chance that Aaron
Donald was going to do some of the things we've seen Aaron
Donald do in the past.
Yeah and he also said at one point Mike that it wasn't a big
deal and I completely and totally disagree with that,
I do think it's a big deal and I do think that the NFL needs to
take steps to ensure that this doesn't happen again.
I will be interested in hearing from Bengals players. In
particular Lyle Collins. I love Lyle Collins. I dealt with him
for many years,
I think he's going to have some probably great quotes on this,
if he gets asked about it in the next few days. Now, it may
be one of those things when they don't get to talk to him
again for Several days and they've moved on to the start
of the regular season and it becomes an afterthought. But
I do think
I would like to hear from now Collins and I also want to hear
from Miles Garrett the next time that Miles Garrett talks
smart guy,
he says what he means. I just think we're going to hear from
Miles Garrett on this and I want to get his take. I want to
get what he thinks about, what Aaron Donald did and escape
with this with no penalties.
I agree with you that that would be an appropriate topic
for Garrett. I think we're more likely to hear from him about
it than we are to hear from Lyle Collins anytime soon
because
it's just, it's part of that delicate dance and its
relationship driven. That's how they had the joint practices in
the first place. That's how they had the preseason game in
the first place. There is
some discretion, the teams have as they line up their
preseason opponents like Cincinnati's going all the way
to La. Well, why? Well, I mean there is that relationship
there. Between McVeigh and Taylor.
And
I was stunned to see the video and it really is and I can
understand why. So many fans who don't follow the league as
closely as we do. Look at this and say, what's
the problem here? Why would the NFL not do anything about this?
And I hope that's what the commissioner is asking people
today.
Why can't we do something about this? Why don't we do something
about this? And if Aaron Donald the Rams and or the union have
With it, they can take it up through
the appropriate channels. So we'll be monitoring this
throughout the day are pro-football talk.com, but it
really is a big deal. I don't want to overstate it, but
I think it's important to not understate. It is the kind of
thing that could have gotten someone
seriously injured. And if you don't stop this Behavior,
Now it's going to happen elsewhere, and it's going to
keep happening until someone does get seriously injured and
it will have been completely avoidable when it finally does
happen.