BEREA, Ohio: There were only a few more team periods left on Friday afternoon, but Joe Judge and Kevin Stefanski had seen enough. It was a hot day and the Giants and Browns were getting more and more voluminous, so the head coaches stopped the joint practice and got their respective teams separated by large groups.
“I just wanted to make sure we finished it strong and finished it smart,” Stefanski said. “Joe did the same with his team. The boys get it. It was hotter today. Viouslybviament, in the red zone, there is condensed space so that the intensity increased. That’s all right. It’s football. It’s a physical and exciting game, but I liked how the boys controlled it. “
Well, almost.
After completing the practice, harsh words provoked a few punches between Giants receiver Sterling Shepard and Browns corner Troy Hill. The two were separated and Giants receiver John Ross picked up Shepard to take him away from Hill.
Earlier, Hill drove his shoulder towards Shepard after a reception on the right side. Shepard walked away, finished the play and then came back, got in Hill’s face, hit him with a helmet and then left.
Shepard did not address the altercation afterwards.
“Friendly competition,” Shepard said. “That’s why we came out here. It’s competition, it’s going to be a talking match, it’s going to be physical, that’s football. This is what we do. They understand that in turn, we understand it here. “
Thursday was tidy and quite polite and the Giants wanted to increase their intensity a day later.
“I think [Thursday], speaking for me personally, but also just with the feeling of practicing, it made me feel like people were feeling each other, feeling the outline, feeling like it was almost like the first day of pills in the camp, just because the first time we go against a different competition, “said defender Leonard Williams.” And today, I felt like we wanted a little more, a little more confident of what kind of readings ‘I look like him and he allowed me to play a little faster. “
During the second week of training camp, the judge read to his players the riot report – and then simply ran them to the ground – after a fight that hampered a training session. He wouldn’t allow this to happen against the Browns and Stefanski, a friend of the judge of his day playing high school football in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
“The coach’s judge had clear instructions from the start and wanted to make sure we played hard, but we kept between the whistles and thought we did,” quarterback Daniel Jones said.
Shepard said increasing energy was a definite goal for the second day.
“It simply came to our notice then [Thursday] but we didn’t really have the juice we had today, “Shepard said.” That’s what it’s about. That’s why we went down here, to work well. I felt like that was what we had. “
And, a little more than that, right after finishing the practice.