Patriots' Jerod Mayo comes up with brilliant punishment for players who fight during joint practices

Jerod Mayo Comes Up With Brilliant Punishment For Players Who Fight At Practice

The 10 Fastest Players In The NFL (1:31) As we've seen over the last few weeks, fights are a part of NFL training camp and the preseason. Coaches don't like them and would rather not see them, but they often seem unavoidable, especially as tempers flare among competitive athletes.New England Patriots head coach Jerod Mayo has come up with a way to avoid fights at practice, and it's pretty foolproof.According to ESPN's Mike Reiss, Mayo told playe…

Patriots' Jerod Mayo comes up with brilliant punishment for players who fight during joint practices

Mayo isn't messing around

Jerod Mayo Reveals Patriots' Punishments For Joint Practice Fights

Sign In Jerod Mayo didn't want to see the Patriots engage in any scraps Tuesday on the practice fields outside of Gillette Stadium. Fighting comes with the territory of joint training camp practices in the NFL. It's why Mayo signed New England up for only one shared session with the Philadelphia Eagles, as the head coach noticed fighting tends to break out on Day 2 of joint practices. In any effort to prevent the P…

Jerod Mayo Reveals His Message To Players About Fights In Joint Practices

(Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)   Joint practices for NFL teams are a great idea on paper, but not so much in reality. They were supposed to give teams an opportunity to measure themselves against other competitors and ramp up their preparation ahead of the start of the season. In reality, most players take it a little more seriously than they should, and it often turns into an ‘us vs. them’ kind of thing, thus leading to multiple brawls an…