West
08-10-2006, 11:32 PM
Source (http://www.nfl.com/teams/story/TEN/9595051)
I'm tired of rookies strutting around acting like they are hot stuff. Reggie Bush's age long contract holdout with the Saints, Leinart holding out on Arizona and flying back to Southern California, and now LenDale White fighting his own teammates in training camp. You hear of fights all the time, but rarely against their own team.
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Titans rookie White gets into camp brawl
NFL.com wire reports
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 10, 2006) -- Rookie running back LenDale White got into a brawl with a teammate at the Tennessee Titans training camp.
The rookie out of Southern California, who fell to the 45th pick in the draft overall in April, started clashing with the defense on a running play. He was walking back toward the huddle when bumped.
White walked back, and safety Donnie Nickey pushed back at the rookie with his helmet. A recording by a television cameraman picked up linebacker Keith Bulluck yelling that White had spit in Nickey's face.
A few plays later, White couldn't catch an outlet pass from Matt Mauck when hit by rookie Cortland Finnegan.
Nickey ran upfield and shoved White in the back. White elbowed safety Vincent Fuller amid more pushing and shoving. Nickey threw at least one punch before a group of players were separated, and he walked off, took off his helmet and threw it on the ground.
That prompted an angry response from coach Jeff Fisher. Practice ended a few plays later, and Fisher called the team together on the field for a brief speech before letting them leave.
"It's hot out -- last day out here," Bulluck said. "We're just getting after it."
White, who dropped into the second round after questions about his weight and inability to run before the NFL draft because of a torn right hamstring, has been working behind Chris Brown and Travis Henry in the rotation at running back.
White walked by reporters as he left the practice saying: "No comment, no comment, no comment."
Nickey, a three-year veteran out of Ohio State, also declined to comment.
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He's a second round pick! He hasn't even proved that he can play the game with the big boys yet and he's already cocky. If we're lucky, one of the Saints will smash him hard in the Titan's preseason game on Saturday and he'll remember what league he is playing in.
I'm tired of rookies strutting around acting like they are hot stuff. Reggie Bush's age long contract holdout with the Saints, Leinart holding out on Arizona and flying back to Southern California, and now LenDale White fighting his own teammates in training camp. You hear of fights all the time, but rarely against their own team.
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Titans rookie White gets into camp brawl
NFL.com wire reports
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 10, 2006) -- Rookie running back LenDale White got into a brawl with a teammate at the Tennessee Titans training camp.
The rookie out of Southern California, who fell to the 45th pick in the draft overall in April, started clashing with the defense on a running play. He was walking back toward the huddle when bumped.
White walked back, and safety Donnie Nickey pushed back at the rookie with his helmet. A recording by a television cameraman picked up linebacker Keith Bulluck yelling that White had spit in Nickey's face.
A few plays later, White couldn't catch an outlet pass from Matt Mauck when hit by rookie Cortland Finnegan.
Nickey ran upfield and shoved White in the back. White elbowed safety Vincent Fuller amid more pushing and shoving. Nickey threw at least one punch before a group of players were separated, and he walked off, took off his helmet and threw it on the ground.
That prompted an angry response from coach Jeff Fisher. Practice ended a few plays later, and Fisher called the team together on the field for a brief speech before letting them leave.
"It's hot out -- last day out here," Bulluck said. "We're just getting after it."
White, who dropped into the second round after questions about his weight and inability to run before the NFL draft because of a torn right hamstring, has been working behind Chris Brown and Travis Henry in the rotation at running back.
White walked by reporters as he left the practice saying: "No comment, no comment, no comment."
Nickey, a three-year veteran out of Ohio State, also declined to comment.
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He's a second round pick! He hasn't even proved that he can play the game with the big boys yet and he's already cocky. If we're lucky, one of the Saints will smash him hard in the Titan's preseason game on Saturday and he'll remember what league he is playing in.