FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The problem wasn’t so much that Lorenzo Mauldin and Kelvin Beachum got into a fight. Granted, having your starting linebacker punch the back of your left tackle’s helmet isn’t exactly ideal, but long after it happened, that wasn’t what struck Todd Bowles.
What bothered Bowles is that, up until that skirmish, the fight was the most fire he had seen out of his team on the 12th day of training camp. After a glacial start to practice, Beachum and Mauldin collided on a play and things escalated from there: Beachum went down, Mauldin began pummeling the back of his helmet, and surrounding teammates took their sides.