Rams special teams standout and reserve linebacker Daren Bates was just days into his first NFL training camp when he posted the following tweet: “Time to get a job today.’’
Later that day in 2013, in a special teams practice, Bates backed up his words against then-special teams leader Josh Hull. The two clutched, grabbed and trash-talked and eventually needed to be separated by teammates.
Hull did not survive that year’s cuts.
“We showed that film (Sunday), just so that everybody knew,” Rams special teams coordinator John Fassel said Monday after this training camp’s first special teams practice — and the Rams’ first in pads.