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NFL announces joint practices - Who your team is playing and why

Joint practices aren’t a new phenomenon in the NFL. They essentially act as an opportunity for teams and players to go through scrimmages against different personnel.

After practicing against your own same players throughout OTAs and training camp, it is a great opportunity to move through different plays, schemes against foreign opponents.

Not all 32 teams are participating in joint practices though. Only 21 teams are will involve themselves with another organization.

New Orleans and Jacksonville were set to meet in Louisiana on August 20, but since the release of the schedule both teams have confirmed otherwise.

Teams NOT involved in joint practices this offseason:

  • Arizona Cardinals

  • Buffalo Bills

  • Cincinnati Bengals

  • Detroit Lions

  • Houston Texans

  • Jacksonville Jaguars

  • Kansas City Chiefs

  • New Orleans Saints

  • Pittsburgh Steelers

  • Seattle Seahawks

  • Washington Football Team

Some teams will engage in two bouts of joint practices; the Los Angeles Rams, New England Patriots, Miami Dolphins, Carolina Panthers, Philadelphia Eagles, and both the New York clubs (Jets and Giants).

Arguably, the most famous joint practice moment of recent memory involved then-Houston’s DeAndre Hopkins and Washington’s DeAngelo Hall getting into it. Things got interesting, real quick…

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Thankfully for DB’s everywhere their ankles won’t be tested by D-Hop until preseason at the earliest.

Full list of this year’s joint practices:

Courtesy of NFL Communications