Good morning; here are your weekly Patriots news 08-21, and some NFL notes this week. Training camp this week saw some ugly actions by both the Patriots and Panthers during the joint practices prior to the team’s preseason game on Friday night.
Both day’s sessions featured bench-clearing brawls that impacted the practices, caused several players to be ejected and saw a fan get hurt as the melee spilled over into the fan section.
Head coaches Bill Belichick and Matt Rhule each gathered their teams around them and told them to knock off the extracurricular nonsense or risk ending the joint sessions.