Training Camp Fights
Read TheDrawPlay.com, the only site on the entire internet that depicts two huge meathead football players getting into a fight over the causes of World War 1. Stay for the puns and butts.
So a team with Dez Bryant and a team run by Jeff Fisher got in a fight. Totally unexpected, whaaaaaaaaaaaat?
This whole joint practice thing always struck me as a strange idea. Effectively you can’t practice your good stuff, because then the other team sees it. Then, because players can’t get into huge brawls in actual games due to how it would hurt the team, instead get into it in practice. Fights in camp & practice are extremely common. Almost every tell all book I’ve read about football talks in depth about training camp fights. Thankfully these days, even in social media over reactionary culture, training camp fights still seem to be largely understood as common parts of the game. Every time something like this happens I brace myself for the legions of idiots reading too much into it, prepared to sigh very heavily and to laugh at people on twitter, but it doesn’t really happen. Only when something goes really wrong and someone gets genuinely hurt (lol Geno Smith) do the overreactions happen. Honestly I bet players get punched and shoved by teammates relatively frequently, Geno just took a really bad smack.
What a silly fight….
Catalysts are what start reactions. They aren’t even arguing different ideas.
Actually catalysts merely speed up reactions already in progress.
In chemistry, you are correct. Outside of chemistry, however, I stand by my definition.
Catalysts can effectively start rxns in chemistry. Many times the rxns are so energetically unfavorable due to a high activation energy that they’ll occur at a negligible rate. Catalysts reduce that activation energy and make the rxns go forward. So Averien’s statement is correct to all but the most insufferable of didacts.
My favorite part about the fight is that apparently the punch was hard enough that it sent Dez’s earrings flying.
This is just like the Llanddarog Strike of 1970, when a group of coal miners shut down an entire pit for several weeks because a frightfully important Englishman didn’t know what a metope was.
You made Aaron Donald too tall.
Congratulations on 400 comics!
This comic would have been so great last June when we commemorated the 100th anniversary of the assassination (28 June 1914)!
I think the purpose of joint practices is so your team blows their frustrations on membersof another team. They do come with some risk, like your franchise left tackle having to delay doing team drills for the first time as he comes back from a torn ACL, but I don’t think “showing too much ” is one of the main concerns.
Also regarding training camp fights, according to Ike Taylor, fights in practice aren’t a big deal, but fights in the locker room like Geno’s are serious.
Zach Martin is about to spin Travon Austin over his head a la the opening to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Simpsons did it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBQflC5fG9Q
They’re both wrong – it’s Gladstone – if we’re taking Churchill off the table which is entirely fair.
Churchill may have been the single most overrated figure of the 20th century.
That just tells you how bad the 20th century has been for Britain.
Please. Attlee ftw.
And the inevitable escalation to WWI was the product of the elevated hostilities of both the Crimean War and the Prussian wars of expansion….
I’m a history nerd 🙁
Is it just me, or does Fisher in this comic look like 80s Mike Ditka?
which is fitting since Ditka was his coach when Jeff played for the Bears.
And your name is “mike”
The installs were finished weeks ago. It’s all about evaluation at this point, and after a while guys start to read eachother