I had a feeling this season was going to get out of control quickly...

... and, yes, it's pretty clear that training-camp squabbles can result in physicality.

That said:

• Yesterday, $Cam Newton and Josh Norman got into it after Norman ran back an interception in drills.  Newton seems to have a rivalry with Norman, and Newton shoved Norman.  In this case, though, the only harm or foul seems to be the media coverage and all that -- Newton even says he thinks a little push and shove might help the team...
• The same, this morning, cannot be said for the LOLJ-E-T-S Just End The Season.  Geno Smith was SUCKER PUNCHED in the jaw by 6th-round draft pick I.K. Enemkpali.  As a result, Enemkpali is done with the Jets and Smith is done for at least 2-6 weeks of the regular season, out 6-10 weeks with a broken jaw.  Not the first time Mr. I.K. has sucker-punched somebody.  He was convicted of battery on a police officer in 2011 (so what's this guy doing on the outside four years later???!?!?), yet the Jets just had to draft this joke in the 6th round.  Early word on the incident was that it was a petty squabble that got out of hand.

And this is what people want out of their football heroes -- this inane and insane bullshit which basically indicates that many of these people are either seriously brain-damaged already, drugged or otherwise assaulted the point they have little to no humanity left, and/or simply should be behind bars and not foisted on the public.

I was going to say this later this month in predictions, but I guess I'll say it now:  I fully predict an on-field NFL in-game fatality this year -- and the utter nature of Football Man is one of the reasons why.  If you've got these motherfucking ticking time bombs on the field, someone is going to snap on somebody and hit somebody in the right/wrong place, and something's going to happen.

We're lucky, frankly, it's only a 6-10 weeks broken jaw, at the rate some of this is going.