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Bennett booted during heated Seahawks practice

Among the lessons football players have to learn in training camp - or be reminded of again - is how to properly harness their emotions to play with an edge yet still not cross a line into actions that could hurt the team on gameday.

Thursday, Michael Bennett appeared to overstep those boundaries - at least in the eyes of coach Pete Carroll - and was essentially ejected from practice about two-thirds of the way through.

Bennett has been at the center of what have become almost daily skirmishes between the offensive and defensive line and was again Thursday.

During a team drill, Bennett became enraged at the offensive line (through the haze of bodies it was a little hard to tell exactly what started things, but it appeared Justin Britt and Mark Glowinski were among those Bennett was jawing at - the play came a snap after Bennett had jumped offsides).

After the initial pushing and shoving, when other players had returned to their positions, Bennett continued to finger point and yell and circled around the line, being held back by teammates including Cliff Avril and Jordan Hill.

Bennett eventually settled down.

But when the No. 1 defense took the field again a few minutes later, Bennett appeared set to take his usual place on the line before Carroll nudged him and motioned for him to go to the sidelines. Bennett did not see action for the rest of practice.

Cowboys holding off on veteran QB, even with backup Moore injured

OXNARD, Calif. - The Cowboys are in no rush to get a veteran quarterback behind Tony Romo, even though executive vice president of personnel Stephen Jones has said they want to add one after Kellen Moore broke his right ankle in training camp.

Dallas was in on the pursuit of free agent Nick Foles a day after Moore's injury in practice Tuesday, but the former NFC East rival in Philadelphia agreed to a deal with Kansas City.

For now, the Cowboys will give longer looks to a pair of young players with no NFL experience: rookie fourth-round pick Dak Prescott and second-year player Jameill Showers, who spent most of last season on the practice squad.

Prescott ran the first team in practice Thursday while Romo took the day off.

Owner and general manager Jerry Jones said the Cowboys might even wait until the end of the month to make a move on a backup.

"We don't have to be and shouldn't be as urgent as it might look like," Jones said. "We don't know that we are void on campus with our backup quarterback at all."

Cleveland quarterback Josh McCown addressed rumors of a possible Dallas trade Thursday. He said at Browns camp that he grew up a Cowboys fan, but was keeping his focus on his current team.

And the Cowboys are curious to see what they have in Prescott, their first drafted quarterback in seven years.

"We haven't even played a preseason game yet," offensive coordinator Scott Linehan said. "You get really impatient and say, got to get him in, got to get him in. Well, we've got to get the right guy in. We're going to let Dak and Jameill get some really quality reps while we're still evaluating what we would do."

No clear-cut QB for Denver

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - The Denver Broncos knew Peyton Manning was the unquestioned starter entering the last four training camps.

A week into this year's camp, the reigning Super Bowl champions haven't named a No. 1 guy, and the battle to be the starter will likely continue at least through the first preseason game at Chicago on Aug. 11.

Mark Sanchez hasn't put distance between himself and Trevor Siemian and rookie Paxton Lynch. All three have been inconsistent, following good stretches with some poor play.

"They're all doing good stuff and then there's struggles at times," coach Gary Kubiak said after Thursday morning's practice. "It's very, very competitive. I want to put a number of throws on each one of them (against the Bears). That's going to have a lot to do with a decision."

Denver's quarterback situation took a hit in the spring when Manning's backup, Brock Osweiler, signed with Houston after Manning retired. The Broncos traded for Sanchez later in the spring and took Lynch with the 26th pick in the draft.

Siemian was the third-string quarterback for Denver last season. He was active for six games as Osweiler's backup while Manning was hurt and got into one game.

Sanchez was brought in to stabilize the position but he has not played well enough in training camp to be named the clear-cut starter.

Breaking up the bundle? Dish makes ESPN an add-on

NEW YORK - Dish Network is offering a new "skinny" bundle of about 50 cable channels that doesn't include ESPN and some other sports channels, giving people who don't care about sports a way to save money on TV without joining the ranks of "cord cutters."

Sports channels are among the most expensive for cable and satellite TV companies and are usually included in big cable bundles. That drives up the bill for all customers, whether they enjoy watching ball games or not.

Dish's new "Flex Pack" starts at $30 a month, not including fees and taxes, while a big cable bundle typically costs about $90.

Dish is not the first cable distributor to sell a smaller basic cable bundle without ESPN, however.

Comcast has done so for nearly a decade. And Dish's package is similar to Verizon Fios' "Custom TV" when it launched in April 2015. Verizon also made ESPN (and lots of other channels) add-ons to a smaller cable bundle. Then ESPN sued and other programmers protested. Custom TV was revamped in February to two core bundles, one sports-focused and one not, with fewer options for groups of channels to add.

Wire reports