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Dan Campbell announces joint practice with the Colts

Dan Campbell announces the Detroit Lions will have joint practice with the Indianapolis Colts prior to their preseason game

Head Coach Dan Campbell announced in a presser ahead of Saturday’s rookie minicamp that the Lions will conduct joint practices with the Indianapolis Colts ahead of their pre-season week two matchup. Joint practices were something coach Campbell later admitted was a rookie mistake not scheduling them earlier into the season.

Joint practices are an excellent way for teams to get good reps throughout the week against other NFL schemes. These practices also give rookies a good first taste of NFL physicality and allow the coaching staff to see what they truly have with the talent on their roster.

There is typically a ton of chippiness in these practices, which makes for some good battles for many people fighting for roster spots.

It has yet to be announced if there will be other joint practice opponents, but the Colts possess a physical, power-run offense, with a versatile, stour defense which should help set the tone for the 2022 season.

Highlights from Packers’ first joint practice with New York Jets

Follow along with all the highlights from the Packers’ first joint practice with the Jets on Wednesday.

The Green Bay Packers are hosting the New York Jets for a pair of joint practices over the next two days.

Two years ago, the Packers and Houston Texans created two highly competitive days of practice before a preseason game. The Packers and Jets will attempt to do the same on Wednesday and Thursday.

Follow along with Packers Wire. Here are all the highlights from the first practice, via reporters in Green Bay:

Report: Packers to host New York Jets for joint practices in mid-August

The Packers will welcome Robert Saleh’s New York Jets to Green Bay for joint practices during training camp in August.

The Green Bay Packers will welcome a few familiar faces to Wisconsin for a pair of joint practices during training camp.

According to Connor Hughes of The Athletic and Brian Costello of The New York Post, the Packers will host the New York Jets in Green Bay for joint practices on Aug. 18 and 19.

The Packers and Jets will then play a preseason game at Lambeau Field on Aug. 21.

The Jets are led by first-year coach Robert Saleh, a close friend of Packers coach Matt LaFleur. Saleh picked Mike LaFleur, Matt’s brother, to be his offensive coordinator.

Other connections include Jets quarterback James Morgan, a Green Bay native who wears No. 4 in honor of Brett Favre, and former Packers kicker Sam Ficken and former Packers guard Greg Van Roten. Also, former Packers safety Marquand Manuel is now the Jets defensive backs coach.

The Packers last held joint practices with the Houston Texans before the 2019 season. The team was scheduled to have joint practices with the Cleveland Browns last summer before the COVID-19 pandemic changed the NFL’s entire training camp plan.

Interestingly enough, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was a vocal critic of the joint practices following the 2019 session with the Texans, the team’s first joint practices with another team since 2005.

“I wouldn’t mind if they didn’t do it for another 14 years,” Rodgers said.

Two years later, the Packers will have more joint practices.

Rodgers is currently in a standoff with the organization over undisclosed issues, and it’s unclear if he’ll be reporting to training camp with the Packers in late July.

While the Packers might be starting the Jordan Love era, the Jets are transitioning to the Zach Wilson era. A standout at BYU, Wilson was the second overall pick in the 2021 draft.

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Broncos won’t have joint practices with Bears this summer

Due to new mandates from the NFL, the Broncos won’t be allowed to host the Bears for joint practices this summer.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a memo to teams on Tuesday that all clubs must hold training camps at their own facilities (opposed to traveling to a different location). The memo makes an exception for teams that are not allowed by local government to hold practices at their facility.

Goodell and the NFL Players Association also announced that there will be no joint practices this summer.

“We believe that each of these steps will enhance our ability to protect the health and safety of players and your football staffs and are consistent with a sound approach to risk management in the current environment,” Goodell said.

The Denver Broncos had hoped to hold joint practices with the Chicago Bears leading up to their Week 2 preseason game. Denver also considered practicing with the Jacksonville Jaguars but that plan was scrapped (Jacksonville isn’t among the Broncos’ preseason opponents).

To view the Broncos’ complete preseason schedule, click here.

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Jags’ joint practice session with Bucs called off by NFL

The Jags and Bucs (neither will any other teams) have joint practice sessions this year as the NFL sent out a memo that prohibits them.

The Jacksonville Jaguars have had consecutive joint practices for several years now but that streak will end this year. The league sent a memo to the whole league Tuesday stating that joint practices will be prohibited this year due to the complications caused by the coronavirus.

The Jags had plans to travel to their in-state rivals, the Tampa Bay Bucs, for joint practice sessions before their Week 2 preseason matchup. It would’ve marked their second time linking up under Doug Marrone as they also had joint practices together in 2017.

The Jags used all 12 of their draft selections this April and added 18 undrafted players, so they unquestionably will be one of the youngest teams in football — if not the youngest. Eliminating their joint practice session with the Bucs certainly can’t help their situation as it provided a chance to match up with a postseason caliber team.

Teams are already missing time together and have had to resort to virtual meetings to mostly communicate. When adding in the fact that teams reportedly won’t get back to action until training camp, it appears the Jags’ young players are going to start their careers with a crash course.

NFL not allowing joint practices, hitting Saints preseason hard

The NFL banned joint practices for the 2020 preseason in light of the coronavirus pandemic, limiting how the New Orleans Saints can work.

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The New Orleans Saints have often chosen to meet up with some of their preseason opponents for joint practices after training camp, but they won’t be allowed to do that in 2020; ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported Tuesday that the NFL said as much in a leaguewide memo to its teams.

With the novel coronavirus pandemic still putting stress on America’s health infrastructure, the NFL wants to limit contact between its teams as much as possible. So the Saints and every other team will have to wait a year to share the practice field with one another.

It’s a big blow to the Saints’ usual preseason strategy. New Orleans has held joint practices with recent preseason opponents including the Los Angeles Chargers, Houston Texans, and New England Patriots, and were expected to do the same with the Los Angeles Rams ahead of the inaugural game at their new SoFi Stadium. The Saints will also scrimmage with the Texans again this summer, so it’s possible they hoped for another series of shared practices.

Sean Payton has enjoyed the benefits of these joint practices, as do many coaches around the NFL. One of them is his Rams counterpart Sean McVay, who explained last summer that, “There’s a premium on some of these practices where we’re going to get a chance to compete against the Chargers twice while we’re out here and then the Raiders twice when we go up to Napa. If we feel like we’ve gotten the work necessary, then that can [really] almost serve as the preseason work in a little bit more of a controlled setting.”

Losing these opportunities to practice at a higher speed against different opponents could mean the Saints are set to open the year a little foggier than normal. With padless practices so common these days, players simply don’t get the time to run and rehearse at full tempo like they used to.

Then again, this Saints team is moving into 2020 with a lot of continuity. Most of their starting lineup is returning from last year’s roster, and they don’t have many newcomers under bright spotlights. Maybe extra time working together before the regular season starts is what they need to avoid the slow starts that have plagued them the last few years.

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No joint practices for Browns during training camp this year

No joint practices for Browns during training camp this year thanks to an NFL ruling that all teams must stay home for training camps

The NFL issued an edict on Tuesday that all 32 teams must hold training camp at their own facilities in their home city. That didn’t impact the Cleveland Browns, who host the training camp sessions every year at the practice field adjacent to the team headquarters in Berea.

One of the ramifications of the ruling, put in place to proactively handle the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, is that there will be no joint practice sessions this summer. None were officially scheduled, but at least a few days of joint practices between the Browns and another team were expected.

The Browns traveled to Indianapolis prior to their preseason game last year for a handful of joint practices. Some of those sessions got intense, a good test for both teams.

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NFL nixes joint practices between teams for 2020 training camps

NFL nixes joint practices between teams for 2020 training camps

In 2019, the Miami Dolphins took advantage of the opportunity to hold joint practices with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the preseason to provide the team with a fresh test. During the sweltering days of July and August, emotions can run high among teammates after weeks of hitting each other — so the chance to crack pads with someone else for a few days is a welcomed breath of fresh air. But in 2020, there will be no joint practices between teams; even though the Dolphins have already been tied to a potential joint effort with the Atlanta Falcons for this year’s camp.

Why? The NFL, amid their re-opening plan amid the COVID-19 pandemic across the country, is looking to minimize team travel beyond that which is necessary — and multi-team contact over several days did not make the league’s cut for establishing acceptable guidelines to return.

The NFL sent out a memo yesterday to inform the teams.

Both the Bills and Dolphins were mentioned by Falcons head coach Dan Quinn as candidates to participate in joint practices in 2020 — but now all teams must not only remain bunkered down at their team facilities for the duration of training camp but they must also avoid multi-team contact to ensure safe procedures as the league looks to re-open and run their 2020 season without interruption.

We will continue to learn more about the NFL’s re-opening procedures and plans in the coming weeks — although the next step for the league is to re-open the team facilities for coaching staffs. The expectation is that will come sooner rather than later, potentially before the end of the week.

No joint practices during Lions training camp for first time since 2015

For the first time since 2015, the Detroit Lions will not have joint practices during training camp.

For the first time since 2015, the Detroit Lions will not have joint practices during training camp.

After initially ruling that NFL teams must run their training camps at their home facilities in 2020, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the league sent a second memo out to teams informing them “that they also will not be allowed to hold joint practices with other teams this summer”.

“In order to mitigate exposure risks,” Houston Chronicle’s Aaron Wilson reported on the memo, “we have agreed that no joint practices will be permitted this year during training camp. We believe that each of these steps will enhance our ability to protect the health and safety of players and your football staffs.”

With pre-season away games at New England and Miami — two coaching staffs with ties to the Lions via their time together at the Patriots — it was very likely the teams would have made arrangements for joint practices ahead of at least one of those games.

The Free Press’ Dave Birkett suggested on Twitter that the Lions and Patriots were hoping to have joint practices in Foxborough, after spending last year in Allen Park.

Be sure to stay tuned to Lions Wire as training camp dates and possible availability for fans to attend the practices are scheduled.

No joint practices for Packers-Browns during training camp

The Packers and Browns won’t be holding a joint practice in Green Bay

The coronavirus pandemic will prevent the Green Bay Packers from hosting joint training camp practices with the Cleveland Browns in August.

According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, the NFL and NFLPA agreed to cancel all planned joint practices this year in an effort to reduce unnecessary exposure between players.

The Packers held joint practices with the Houston Texans last August and were planning to host the Browns for two practices before the two teams face off in the preseason on Aug. 22 at Lambeau Field.

Both coach Matt LaFleur and GM Brian Gutekunst liked the idea of holding the joint practices, which can provide a more competitive practice environment for teams. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers wasn’t a fan – noting the vanilla schemes and injury risks involved – and won’t mind the cancellation.

The NFL also announced all teams must hold training camp at the team facility, a change that won’t affect the Packers.

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