Eagles' Saquon Barkley may have idea to limit fights in joint practices

Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk noted that the NFL doesn't fine players who throw punches or are otherwise involved in non-playing-related physical altercations during joint practices. 

"If the league ever began issuing the kind of discipline for practice fights that the league issues for fights during games," Florio wrote, "the fights would end."

Vic Fangio: Joint practices are "great"

Meanwhile, Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio seems to disagree with Barkley about the value of joint practices. 

"I love doing these things," Fangio said. "I think these things are great. I wish we would do another one. It's great to go against a new team, new schemes, new players. You learn things. You're going to get unscouted looks and plays and see how people react. These things are tremendous, and can't get enough of it."

Interestingly, Mark Daniels of MassLive mentioned that a challenge Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel shared for his players ahead of the second joint practice with the Eagles may have "sparked a physical day" on the field. 

"Basically, don’t get too comfortable," Patriots cornerback Marcus Jones said about Vrabel's pre-practice message. "You know, in the National Football League, it’s what hasn’t done for me lately, and that’s great that we did pretty good. But we had things that we needed to get right. And then we came back, and we talked about always trying to improve."

Eventually, the NFL may ask opposing players to be more comfortable and more professional as it pertains to interactions that do and don't occur during joint practices.