{"id":395350,"date":"2026-08-02T09:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395350\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:04:12","slug":"cowboys-competitive-practice-leads-to-scrap-between-guyton-ezeiruaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395350\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys&#8217; competitive practice leads to scrap between Guyton, Ezeiruaku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OXNARD, Calif. \u2014 Toward the end of a two-minute drill on Saturday, left tackle Tyler\u00a0Guyton slammed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/article\/dallas-cowboys-donovan-ezeiruaku-training-camp-22369986.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pass rusher Donovan Ezeiruaku<\/a> to the ground. After the play, the two exchanged words.<\/p>\n<p>With practice nearing its end,\u00a0Guyton stormed off after the play and didn&#8217;t finish the practice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After practice, the two men walked past each other without saying a word.<\/p>\n<p>Guyton said he got hit in the neck by Ezeiruaku.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ezeiruaku understood what the process is about between the two men: Helping each other get better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love it,&#8221;\u00a0Ezeiruaku said. &#8220;We talk about it prior to [the start of the season] about our goals and our expectations from each other [and] for each other. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re here to do. We&#8217;re here to compete and push each other so that we can be where we want to be. And that&#8217;s All-Pro and Pro Bowl. But at the same time helping the team, because if we do our one-eleventh on both sides of the ball, we will be successful.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s practice, the first in helmets and shoulder pads, didn&#8217;t have any fights, but the Ezeiruaku-Guyton dust-up was close to it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re competitors, that&#8217;s all it is,&#8221; Ezeiruaku said. &#8220;I&#8217;m a hot guy, he gets hot too. We compete, we go back and forth, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going to make us great.&#8221;<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXNARD, Calif. \u2014 Toward the end of a two-minute drill on Saturday, left tackle Tyler\u00a0Guyton slammed pass rusher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,93042,124547],"class_list":["post-395350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-cowboys","tag-tp-training-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}