According to Green Bay Packers Head Coach Matt LaFleur, the Baltimore Ravens will be heading to Green Bay to close out training camp and the preseason.
The Packers will have joint practice with the Broncos in Denver and Ravens in Green Bay this summer, LaFleur says.
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The Ravens are no strangers to joint practices. Last season they hosted the Washington Commanders. In 2021, they traveled to Spartanburg, South Carolina, for joint practices against the Carolina Panthers. With their final preseason contest in Green Bay, they’ll be working with the Green Bay Packers.
In those recent years, both coaches and players have praised the opportunity to go up against somebody other than themselves. Last year, Lamar Jackson was appreciative of the joint practices against the Commanders and what he could get out of them.
“It was wonderful. It was good to go against someone else instead of my teammates every day. It was good to get out there with another team,” Jackson said. “Just execution. [We can] see where we are before the season starts, seeing if our timing is down pat and stuff like that.”
Head Coach John Harbaugh shared what the benefits are last season.
“Well, it’s more controlled. That’s the thing about joint practice; you still get a lot of great work without the ‘finish’ part of it. You don’t get the tackling, the sacks – those kinds of things,” Harbaugh said. “I will also say, that’s a double-edged sword, because then it becomes a gray area about how much is too much, and that’s where the pushing and the shoving starts sometimes.”