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AS TEMPERATURES SOAR, TEMPERS FLAIR: FIGHT BREAKS OUT AFTER HIT - PantherFan007 - 07-28-2025
Chubba Hubbard caught a Bryce Young pass downfield only to be hit a bit "too aggressively" by second year linebacker Trevin Wallace, leading to Hubbard jumping up and swinging fists at Wallace, who returned the sentiments. Players from Offense and Defense came to the rescue and pulled the players apart.
Chubba addressed the media, saying it was "Just football" and nothing more.
LMAO at Chubba with, 'Dang, I'm on here in front of the media with an eggnog on my head?" lol
https://www.panthers.com/news/training-camp-observations-first-day-in-pads-brings-the-physical-play-chuba-hubbard-trevin-wallace-tetairoa-mcmillan
CHARLOTTE — Chuba Hubbard could only laugh when asked about the knot in the middle of his forehead following Monday's most physical practice of camp.
"Pretty boy ain't pretty no more," he laughed afterward, when asked about the lump he referred to as "an eggnog."
He was in a better mood then, but a late exchange with linebacker Trevin Wallace was one of the more heated moments of a heated day, when the Panthers put pads on for the first time.
Wallace gave Hubbard a hard shot at the end of a play, and Hubbard clearly objected because he got up and took a swing at the second-year linebacker. But by the time he had finished his post-practice routine, he was past it.
"Just a football play; he's playing hard, that's what coach preaches, so nothing to be mad about it's just football," Hubbard said. "Obviously, a lot of emotions in it, but he's playing hard and that's what we need, so I love it. I mean, football is all about emotions, obviously I got hit, reacted a certain way, but like I said, he's playing hard and I can't be mad about that.
"At the end of the day, he's playing physical, playing fast. I don't think anybody's really thinking about how you're going to hit somebody; he's just trying to make a play. I don't fault anybody for playing hard. That's what I love. I'm not going to lie, I react crazy sometimes. I love football. I'm emotional, so that's how it is. I'll go in there in the locker room, know it's all love. He knows that, though."
It's the kind of thing you see on a first day in pads, and actually triggered a secondary scrum away from the play. But there were no hard feelings afterward — Hubbard said — but it was also the kind of intense practice head coach Dave Canales was hoping to see.
"Playing football," Canales said of the play in question. "We've got to toe the line, we've got to play physical, and a lot of times, it's not personal, it's just football. So guys will respond passionately, and they don't like getting knocked on their butt, they take it personally. But you know there was a lot of physical play throughout practice, so that's going to happen."
Obviously, he doesn't want one of his team's leaders (in word and deed) hurt in any kind of scrap with teammates, but Canales didn't seem to mind the scene, shaking his head when asked if he considered calling practice short after the late-workout scuffle.
"Not at all," he replied. "As quick as I could get the music back going and feed off of that energy, I wanted to make sure the guys can have the ability to have plays, and sometimes it's going to be emotional, passionate plays. Can we go to the next one? Can we get back to football?So it was great."
The simple fact that the Panthers want to be a running team, and they're finally able to really run, made it a competitive day and one that's consistent with their personality.
Heated in more ways than one
The feels-like temperatures again pushed close to 100 by the end of practice, but there was enough breeze blowing to keep it from being unbearable.
The pads being on added a few degrees, though.
There were a couple of good push-and-shoves at the end of plays, including in one-on-ones between linemen when Damien Lewis and Tershawn Wharton extended a play into some extracurriculars.
Wharton doesn't have the kind of physical mass as Lewis and Robert Hunt (he's at least 50 pounds lighter), but he's lower-body dense and has the kind of never-stop attitude that an undrafted rookie from Missouri S&T has to have to survive and thrive in the NFL.
Coupled with Bobby Brown III returning to practice Monday morning and Derrick Brown making his way back, Canales knows he's going to have some competition in the interior lines, as well as outside with tackles Ikem Ekwonu and Taylor Moton squaring up with vets Patrick Jones II and D.J. Wonnum and rookies Nic Scourton and Princely Umanmielen.
"The battles up front with Rob and D-Lew and Turk, Bobby's going to be coming out there pretty soon," Canales began. "Ickey and T-Mo, going against DJ and Pat Jones, Princeley and Nic Scourton having to go against veteran tackles. All these matchups are going to make us who we are."