Kicking, pushing and shoving, Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt was involved in a minor skirmish Wednesday, while there was more of the same Thursday in Englewood. “It was competitive,” Texans’ head coach Bill O’Brien said. That’s all. “Two teams going at it.”

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Kicking, pushing and shoving, Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt was involved in a minor skirmish Wednesday, while there was more of the same Thursday in Englewood. “It was competitive,” Texans’ head coach Bill O’Brien said. That’s all. “Two teams going at it.”

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ENGLEWOOD – Nobody got hurt Thursday in several skirmishes that broke out during team drills between Denver’s record-shattering offense and Houston’s swaggering defense.

Texans’ talkative safety D.J. Swearinger once again was in the middle of the biggest fracas. Tempers flared when running back Montee Ball was shoved after the whistle. Several players ended up on the ground in all the pushing and shoving that followed, including Denver receiver Emmanuel Sanders.

Texans’ head coach Bill O’Brien took exception to the notion the joint practices were chippy, saying, “I’m from Boston, so when chippy was used that was with the old big, bad Bruins in the ’80s. Chippy was a hockey term, not a football term. It was competitive. Two teams going at it.”