{"id":57611,"date":"2022-08-27T01:37:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T01:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rams-to-handle-discipline-for-aaron-donald-helmet-incident-in-house\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T01:37:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T01:37:03","slug":"rams-to-handle-discipline-for-aaron-donald-helmet-incident-in-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rams-to-handle-discipline-for-aaron-donald-helmet-incident-in-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams to handle discipline for Aaron Donald helmet incident in-house"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Los Angeles Rams will be handling on their own any discipline after the helmet-swinging brawl that canceled their practice with the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A Rams spokesperson declined to specify if star defensive end Aaron Donald or anyone else would face discipline after Thursday&#8217;s wild fight in Ohio, and only said that it will \u201cremain in-house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rams and Bengals held a joint practice Thursday in Ohio ahead of Saturday&#8217;s preseason matchup between last year&#8217;s Super Bowl teams.  After a few minor incidents, a massive brawl broke out between the teams.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>[<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Set, hut, hike! Create or join a fantasy football league now!<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Footage of the fight showed one player swinging a helmet at the other team, and Donald was shoved to the ground while holding a Bengals helmet in his right hand.  Donald was later seen with two Bengals helmets in his hands.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what sparked the brawl initially.  Practice was quickly called off after things settled down.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\" style=\"max-height: 640px\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader\" style=\"padding-bottom:67%;\"><noscript><img alt=\"Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/POFVWKYIE8PbifZcGqN7Gg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2022-08\/c9a0e090-2592-11ed-bfdf-89b4cdad36cb\" class=\"caas-img\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">Aaron Donald was involved in a wild helmet-swinging brawl at the Rams&#8217; joint practice with the Bengals on Thursday.  (AP\/Jae C. Hong)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Had the incident occurred during a game, the league certainly would have handled punishment itself.  Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett was suspended for six games in 2019 after he ripped off the helmet of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph and swung it at him during a game.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL has traditionally let teams handle discipline after incidents in joint practices.  While the league could certainly hand down a punishment of its own, the Rams&#8217; internal punishment \u2014 whatever that may be \u2014 will likely be the end of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s preseason game between the two teams, however, may be a bit more contentious than usual.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Rams will be handling on their own any discipline after the helmet-swinging brawl that canceled their practice with the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday. A Rams spokesperson declined to specify if star defensive end Aaron Donald or anyone else would face discipline after Thursday&#8217;s wild fight in Ohio, and only said that it &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rams-to-handle-discipline-for-aaron-donald-helmet-incident-in-house\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rams to handle discipline for Aaron Donald helmet incident in-house<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":67349,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rams-star-aaron-donald-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-the-helmet-swinging-brawl-with-bengals\/","url_meta":{"origin":57611,"position":0},"title":"Rams star Aaron Donald doesn&#8217;t want to talk about the helmet-swinging brawl with Bengals","date":"September 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Aaron Donald doesn't want to talk about the wild helmet-swinging brawl he was involved in last month.The Los Angeles Rams star, who was seen seemingly at the center of the fight during a joint practice between the Cincinnati Bengals last month, didn't want to get into any specifics on Monday\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":67492,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rams-star-aaron-donald-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-the-helmet-swinging-brawl-with-bengals-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":57611,"position":1},"title":"Rams star Aaron Donald doesn&#8217;t want to talk about the helmet-swinging brawl with Bengals","date":"September 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Aaron Donald doesn't want to talk about the wild helmet-swinging brawl he was involved in last month.The Los Angeles Rams star, who was seen seemingly at the center of the fight during a joint practice between the Cincinnati Bengals last month, didn't want to get into any specifics on Monday\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":56402,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aaron-donald-swings-helmet-at-bengals-players-during-joint-practice-brawl\/","url_meta":{"origin":57611,"position":2},"title":"Aaron Donald swings helmet at Bengals&#8217; players during joint practice brawl","date":"August 25, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"USA TODAY Sports The NFL has never gotten involved in legislating joint practice fights, instead deferring to the clubs to punish players. 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