{"id":819465,"date":"2026-08-20T03:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819465\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T03:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:32:08","slug":"sean-payton-uses-tuesdays-tussle-to-warn-players-about-potential-ejections-from-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819465\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Payton uses Tuesday&#8217;s &#8220;tussle&#8221; to warn players about potential ejections from games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Broncos <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/bo-nix-on-training-camp-fight-with-nik-bonitto-i-love-it-its-football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">had a fight<\/a> at practice on Tuesday. On Wednesday, however, coach Sean Payton wasn\u2019t willing to use the \u201cF\u201d word.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s call it a tussle,\u201d Payton told reporters. \u201cI got a chance to watch the film. There were no punches, it was just a tussle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still a lesson to be learned from the tussle, given the rule change that allows 345 Park Avenue to trigger ejections for actions that officials missed in the heat of the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[W]e covered [it] last night,\u201d Payton said. \u201cWhat\u2019s new \u2014 from an officiating standpoint \u2014 this is our first season where they can go to replay in New York and remove a player. So with that being the case, it\u2019s going to be hard to be the guy that gets the first jab. They\u2019re going to be able to go to replay and get it right. So we discussed that and we had examples of shoving and then the officials just getting bumped, you\u2019re ejected. All of it we kind of covered, especially with the replay now being changed and it\u2019ll be the first season we have that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a great point. In the past, the second guy to throw the punch tended to be the one who got caught. Now, the league office can watch the play and take action against anyone\/everyone who did something that merits disqualification.<\/p>\n<p>With the issue being a point of emphasis this year, it\u2019s important for all coaches to emphasize the importance of not letting an NFL game become an MMA fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Broncos had a fight at practice on Tuesday. On Wednesday, however, coach Sean Payton wasn\u2019t willing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-819465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}