The second day of joint practices between the New York Giants and the Detroit Lions was almost as wild as the first, with feisty play and multiple fights marring and interrupting the action.
One incident saw Giants star rookie wideout Malik Nabers take a swipe at Lions safety Kerby Joseph after an incompletion, leading to some fisticuffs.
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“It’s hot. We’re competing,” Nabers said after practice. “Stuff like that is going to happen. It’s football at the end of the day.”
Nabers was running back to the huddle after Lions rookie cornerback Terrion Arnold broke up a pass attempted for Nabers. On his return, he took a poke at Joseph, who had apparently made a comment.
“He did, but I’m not going to repeat it,” Nabers said when probed about what Joseph said.
After the pass breakup, Nabers tapped Arnold on the helmet, which may have been misinterpreted by Joesph.
“That’s the competitor in me and Arnold, we talk almost every day about just competing, how great we want to be,” Nabers explained. “So, it’s nothing against him. He’s my brother, so I’m going to give him the work he needs. He’s going to give me the work I need. But I was just tapping him on the helmet, good play. That’s all it was.”
Then, Nabers said, Joseph had something to say.
“And that was that,” he added.
End of story.
Asked what he got out of his first experience playing against another NFL team, Nabers was complimentary.
“I got nice, good work from these guys at Detroit. Just some great work of just not going against your teammates. You get to go against somebody else. Having that mindset of getting back into that football mentality, that was great,” he said.
“Like I said, I can compete with these guys in the league. That was just the main thing. Just going against somebody else before the season starts. Let’s see what I need to work on. Getting my plays down. That’s really about it. Just continue to be me. That’s all I can say is I have talks with myself, ‘Just continue to be me.’”
Nabers was clearly problematic for the Lions’ secondary this week to the point of frustrating them. He was asked if he enjoyed doing that.
“No. At the end of the day, it’s all about me. It’s not even about them. It’s about what I do when the ball is in the air and what I do…
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