But the emotions in that instant were real, and it wasn't an immediate hug-it-out.
"I think that one took a minute," Beane said. "There was still respect between the two of them, and I think as long as there's a respect, you don't always have to love and want to hang out with the same person.
"I don't think that day, I don't think they were having lunch together."
The immediate aftermath was another time when Rivera wanted to jump in. It seemed like the thing a coach does when two of his best players decide to fight in the middle of practice.
"I was getting ready to let everybody have and just kind of yell at them," Rivera admitted. "But I had a group of guys come to me and say, 'Hey, coach, we got this.' I said, 'Really?' They said, yeah, we got this, we'll take care of it. And so I didn't get the guys together. I didn't yell at the team. I didn't get after anybody. They did. They took care of it."
And Newton and Norman were together later, and decided they needed to show the world they were fine, so they posed for a picture on social media the next day.
But there was also the understanding that it might not be the last one. Picture, or fight.
"We were in the locker room and he came up to me, and he said, 'Look, man, if we've got to fight like that every day to get us better, that's what we're going to do.' And I was like, 'Yeah, I already know.'" Norman laughed. "It was just understanding where we are with you, you're a dog on your side, I'm a dog on my side, and just understanding each other's level of you know output. We heard all the noise, news outlets, and all the papers and ESPN, so we just had to take a picture. I was like, look, man, let's take a picture and get it out there because people think we don't like each other and that wasn't the case at all.
"It wasn't immediate. It wasn't, it wasn't. It did take a little minute because you got alpha males, and we have egos. It's like another dog walking in your yard. It's going to be a problem. But we saw the backlash of smoke that was getting online, it was like, look man, let's just put this to bed, and we made it right from there."