On the “well that escalated quickly” scale — say it with me in the Ron Burgundy voice — the Myles Garrett-Mason Rudolph fight on Thursday night ranks a solid nine out of 10.
A 10 would have been a fight that involved fans, something equivalent to the NBA’s Malice at the Palace.
It has been a while since we had an NFL game this severe. The last game that got there was Bengals-Steelers in 2017, another prime-time spectacle involving two AFC North squads that included so many cheap shots that even Ndamukong Suh could’ve watched it and said, “Whoa, let’s settle down guys.