PHILADELPHIA — A sideline-clearing brawl erupted between the Philadelphia Eagles and Indianapolis Colts at Tuesday’s joint observe, slicing the consultation scale down.

The melee used to be sparked when Eagles heart Jason Kelce blindsided Zaire Franklin on the finish of a play games, shedding the Colts linebacker to the garden. Kelce looked as if it would pluck umbrage with Franklin getting difference bodily with working again Kenneth Gainwell on consecutive performs.

Kelce took possession of his movements in a while, calling his clash on Franklin a “cheap shot.”

“We try and keep things civil on the field, and I pride myself on being a guy that sustains the emotions and level of play out there, and I let my emotions get the better of me,” Kelce mentioned. “That certainly doesn’t belong out there on the field, and a little ashamed that it got to that level.”

Kelce mentioned that he didn’t catch up with Franklin following observe to handle the status as a result of “probably tensions are a little bit too high for that right now.”

“When you have joint practices against other organizations, sometimes your speed ain’t their speed,” mentioned Franklin, a Philadelphia local. “People get offended — that’s life.

“Rising up in Philly, gazing [Kelce] for an extended week — bundle of recognize for him. Talked to him a tiny bit then we performed them terminating while. I believed the OGs would no less than glance me within the visual sooner than [hitting me], but it surely’s all excellent. I would possibly get a probability to appear him within the visual Thursday, so we’re moving to be OK.”

The Eagles and Colts play each other Thursday night in the preseason finale for both clubs.

The joint practice grew chippy as it wore on. A scuffle broke out near the Colts sideline when Eagles defensive end Derek Barnett knocked the ball out of rookie quarterback Anthony Richardson’s hand.

For head coaches Nick Sirianni and Shane Steichen, there is plenty of history with the teams they were facing off against. Sirianni, the Colts offensive coordinator from 2018 to ’20, took exception to Indianapolis firing his mentor Frank Reich last November, and he called it “candy” to beat the Colts later that month at Lucas Oil Stadium, dedicating the victory to Reich.

Steichen was the offensive coordinator in Philadelphia in 2021-22, helping the Eagles reach Super Bowl LVII last season.

Sirianni dialed up a trick play Tuesday, as Gainwell got the handoff and then threw it down the field to tight end Grant Calcaterra for a long completion. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts revealed that it was a play Steichen installed when he was with the Eagles last season, but the team never ran it.

Hurts expressed displeasure with the fact that the fight ended practice early.

“It’s a aggressive sport, and I like the contest of it,” he said. “That is what I am getting paid to do — to play games soccer, so I sought after to observe.”