AP

Houston and Washington had a fight on Saturday, but a football practice didn’t break out.

After a joint season marred by what Washington coach Jay Gruden called a “nasty brawl,” Gruden acknowledged that the day had been wasted.

“I do wish we had that practice,” Gruden told reporters. “We had some red zone, some two-minute, some great situational work we were going to do today. Unfortunately, we didn’t get it done.”

Gruden said he won’t re-think the wisdom of joint practices, but that he’ll reconsider “going three straight days in pads” against another team.

“I think against New England last year we were probably two days and then we went in shorts the day before a game,” Gruden said. “I think three days in a row is probably too much. These guys get a little. . . . The third day in shorts there is no way they can really fight cause there is no contact. . . . I know [the Texans] are sick about what happened today as we are but that happened and we just have got to move on.”

Texans coach Bill O’Brien didn’t sound very sick about it.

“It’s training camp, you know?” O’Brien said. “It’s intense out there. It’s too bad, but that’s just what happens with two competitive teams. We both got work done. We just separated the practice. It’s a good couple days, I guess two and a half. It was good.”

It was definitely good for HBO and NFL Films, since people will now have a reason to tune in to Hard Knocks, other than to see DeSean vs. The Inanimate Object.