Joint Practices to Bring Much-Needed Shakeup to Packers' Training Camp

Earlier this week, the Packers announced they would be hosting joint practices with the Houston Texans, leading up to the teams’ first preseason game of the season at Lambeau Field.

Not once in the Mike McCarthy era did the Packers ever hold joint practices with another team. The last time the Packers held joint practices was in the summer of 2005, when the Buffalo Bills came to town.

It’s an issue that has come up several times in recent offseasons.

In 2017, McCarthy said he and Ted Thompson had “talked about it at length,” and decided they would “never take the team out of Green Bay.” McCarthy also discussed some of the challenges associated with joint practices under the collective…