Subscribe
Follow Us
The Buffalo Bills are going to hold some joint training camp practices with the Carolina Panthers, and they're looking forward to it. It can get pretty hot at Carolina's facility during the summer, and that's exactly what they want.
Speaking to the media recently, Bills general manager Brandon Beane said he thinks the hot practices will help prepare them for the blistering heat of September NFL action.
“Sometimes we play some September games that are hot,” Beane said, per Mark Gaughan of the Buffalo News.“It can be quite humid in New Jersey when we play there in Week 1 and 2. It usually is hotter there than here in terms of humidity.”
Besides the weather, Beane also thinks it'll help shake things up to get out of New York for a while.
Article Continues Below
“I think change of scenery is a benefit,” he said. “These guys will have been going at each other all spring. We’ll be about two weeks in with camp and will have played a preseason game, so to go against a new opponent will be an opportunity for our units to go against theirs. Their strengths on offense are different from our strengths, so it’s something different for our defense to see. It’s just a good opportunity to compete against guys who you haven’t seen all the time and don’t know all your moves.”
In addition to the joint practices, these teams will also play each other in a preseason game on August 16th. Both teams are heading into big seasons, and it should be interesting to see Josh Allen and Cam Newton square off against each other in practice.
Brawls often breakout when teams get together for these practices, but Beane isn't expecting any of that.
“We’re going to care about their players and they’re going to care about ours. Rivera is not going to allow melees to happen at practice, and we know Sean won’t either. So we’ll have a professional practice. Tempers might flare, but it won’t be anything crazy that takes the fun out of them,” he said.
