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Olivier Vernon was put on timeout during Thursday's joint practice with the Carolina Panthers.

A day after punching Panthers offensive tackle Michael Oher, triggering an offensive line versus defensive line brawl, the Dolphins' starting defensive end was held out of 11-on-11 work the entire day.
While Joe Philbin had warned his players fighting with the Panthers would not be tolerated in the two-day practice sessions at Wofford College, the coach insisted Thursday that Vernon's limited participation was caused by a nagging injury and not a punishment.
"A little medical situation we were just being preventive with," Philbin said.
With Vernon sidelined, second-year defensive end Terrence Fede took the first-team reps at right defensive end. Fede, a 2014 seventh-round pick, has been one of the preseason's pleasant surprises because of the dominance he's shown against the Dolphins' second-team offensive line.

"It felt good to go with the ones," said Fede, who played sparingly on defense last season but led the Dolphins to a 37-35 victory over the Minnesota Vikings last year when he blocked a punt in the end zone, producing a fourth-quarter safety. "Most of camp I've been going against the twos, sometimes the ones, so today was a great opportunity for me to get out there."

Vernon downplayed the fight with Oher, who swung him to the ground during their one-on-one drill against each other Wednesday, calling it "a little tussle."
It's unclear whether that little tussle, or Vernon's undisclosed injury, will keep him from participating in Saturday night's exhibition game against the Panthers.
While Wednesday's practice featured a few heated moments between the teams, Thursday's action was very cordial throughout the two-hour practice session.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-dolphins/fl-dolphins-news-0821-20150820-story.html
 
Sounds like these fights are getting a bit out-of-hand....maybe the NFL has told coaches to tell their players to knock it off. We all know guys on the bubble want some attention and try to make a name for themselves, but all it takes is a guy punching a big player in the face and breaking his jaw or something and then it quits being fun and games. :up:
 
Roman529 said:
Sounds like these fights are getting a bit out-of-hand....maybe the NFL has told coaches to tell their players to knock it off. We all know guys on the bubble want some attention and try to make a name for themselves, but all it takes is a guy punching a big player in the face and breaking his jaw or something and then it quits being fun and games. :up:
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No way that would ever happen. The franchise would have to be an absolute joke to have something like that happen.
 
Anyone calling that a fight obviously didn't see it... it was an illegal Hands to the face at worst...lol
 
xXwarXx said:
Did you see blind side?

I don't think I could ever root against that guy.

And his mom Sanda Bullock was insanely hot in that movie, and she's damn ear 50. :)
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Oher was furious about that movie fwiw...
 
xXwarXx said:
Why?

I remember as the years went by he was mad that it was all anyone would talk about when they met him, but did he not like the actual movie?
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the movie made him out to be one of the stupidest people ever. lol he was pretty pissed about it
 
Fintastic2124 said:
the movie made him out to be one of the stupidest people ever. lol he was pretty pissed about it
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Ya lmao, I can't imagine how much his teammates mess with him over that. Hollywood def laid it on thick with the "big dumb but nice black guy" thing. But the movie was still good.
 
xXwarXx said:
Ya lmao, I can't imagine how much his teammates mess with him over that. Hollywood def laid it on thick with the "big dumb but nice black guy" thing. But the movie was still good.
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I've only seen it once, but I remember the part when he was at practice and got distracted by balloons being let go. lol I almost couldn't handle it past that point lol
 
xXwarXx said:
Ya lmao, I can't imagine how much his teammates mess with him over that. Hollywood def laid it on thick with the "big dumb but nice black guy" thing. But the movie was still good.
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I sort of disagree with you. I didn't feel that he was shown as unintelligent in the movie. He was simply uneducated. A lot of the struggles that he was going through in that period of his life hindered him from being able to be properly educated.
 
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What? Omar Kelly with a misleading title and unfounded speculation? Nooooo, say it ain't so.

****in worthless hack.
 
He was mad that they portrayed him as not knowing anything about football in the beginning, when he had actually played and knew the game prior to arriving at that school. That's what I read at least.
 
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