Brawls Break Out During Steelers Practice

Things got frisky at Steelers practice on Wednesday, as a fight broke out among the team.  “Practice broke out into a fight,” Mike Tomlin said in today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “You know, the competition is good, but the level of intensity has to be there if we want to get better.  You have to understand professional etiquette; that’s what we talked about after practice. These kinds of things have to happen as we develop our football team because it gives us a venue to address them, and why we do what it is that we do and how we approach what it is that we do.

“You don’t like to see it happen, but it’s a necessary evil. I’m glad that it happened, we addressed it and move on.”

The paper says that the fight involved RT Willie Colon and LB Lawrence Timmons.  Another skirmish was between tackle Trai Essex and LB Arnold Harrison.  No question that the team is showing a bit of fire early on, and to think that they are not even supposed to be having contact yet!  As long as Tomlin can control the troops for the season, these types of practice brawls could build some chemistry later on.