Titans’ Jeffery Simmons addresses his epic training-camp meltdown

Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons went viral on Tuesday morning and not in a good way.

The 27-year-old lineman found himself in the middle of controversy after he berated local radio host Buck Reising during a live broadcast from Titans training camp for some things he allegedly said on social media.

Twenty-four hours later after some reflection, Simmons owned up to his actions and addressed his unhinged behavior.

“That’s not who I am, that’s not who I want to be seen as,” Simmons said , via Titans team reporter Jim Wyatt.  “I talked to Buck, we have an understanding [of where each is coming from]. He has a job, I have a job. At the end of the day, I take full accountability of my actions … that’ll never happen again with me. I always talk about that switch, when to turn it on when to turn it off, I kind of still had it on coming off the field with the way practice went. Like I said, that’s not me, it’ll never happen again. To [the media], I apologize and not because it hit social media but because of who I am.”

Simmons and Reising were seen chatting before practice on Wednesday and the two appear to be on good terms now.

It's not clear exactly what Reising said that set Simmons off, but he wasn’t the first member of the Titans media that drew the ire of the former first-round pick.

Simmons had complained previously about how liberal some of the team reporters were with their criticism of the Titans players, and he took exception to a few of them being critical of the team’s signing of 28-year-old safety Jamal Adams.