Fights during training camp are inevitable, but that doesn’t mean Freddie Kitchens has to tolerate them.
During Sunday’s training camp practices, defensive end Chad Thomas and tight end Pharaoh Brown got into a shoving match that briefly escalated before the players were separated.
The first-year Browns head coach had seen enough, though. He went old school to dish out his punishment for fighting.
Rather than punish just Thomas and Brown for the altercation, Kitchens had the entire Browns training camp roster take to the sidelines to run a bunch of sprints called “gassers.” They’re basically sideline-to-sideline sprints, and they don’t make for a pleasant experience in 90-degree heat.
Here was the fight:
And the aftermath:
Some fans at the camp in Berea even got in on heckling the players, and Thomas — who recorded no stats in 2018 — responded by flipping off that fan.
But hey, Kitchens clearly knows how to discourage fighting at camp. After all, nobody wants to run gassers.
