Sep 3rd 2008 11:16PM by JJ Cooper (author feed)
Filed under: Titans, AFC South
Albert Haynesworth has put his days of getting kicked out of practice behind him, but now the Titans have another former first-rounder who has taken that crown.
Michael Griffin was booted by Jeff Fisher after getting into an altercation with cornerback Cary Williams. While Williams cooled down, Griffin didn’t so Fisher sent him to the showers.
“I asked him to put it behind him and he couldn’t so I sent him in,” Fisher said. “I didn’t want him to distract the rest of the team. It has happened before. He’ll be in the meetings and he’ll bounce back.”According to the , Griffin is the first Titan to be sent out of practice since Haynesworth in 2003. But it’s not the first time he’s gotten too fired up after getting into a fight in practice–he took a long time to cool down after getting into a scuffle with a linebacker during practice last year.
Eventually Haynesworth showed that a temper can be a powerful thing–if it can be directed in the right way. Griffin will probably do the same, but hopefully it won’t take him as long as Haynesworth did to figure it out.
