After Fight on Team Plane, Dolphins Suspend Keith Traylor For Season Finale

This seems like a fitting end to a one-win campaign. Dolphins' first-year head coach Cam Cameron suspended Keith Traylor for the season finale because the 340-pound defensive tackle can't play nicely with others. Specifically, Traylor got in a fight on the team plane after the Week 16 loss to the Patriots.

According to two sources, the fight was with offensive linemen Rex Hadnot and Vernon Carey. Traylor, 38, did not practice last week, and the team listed him on its injury report with an ankle ailment.

Cam Cameron met with Traylor on Monday, they argued, and the coach kicked him off the team, one of the sources said.

I don't know if this qualifies as "thugs and hoodlums"-type behavior, but Traylor's inability to keep his hands to himself and the fact that he's 38 could mean that his Dolphins career is over.

And although Cameron is neither a thug nor a hoodlum (if anything, Cameron's the anti-thug), he could be looking for work soon too.

According to the Sun-Sentinel's Ethan Skolnick, Miami kept Traylor on the roster for yesterday's game to avoid a public-relations problem and to keep Traylor from signing with another team. Teammate Vonnie Holliday stuck up for his soon-to-be former teammate:

"The one thing about Truck, say what you want to say about his attitude - a lot of people say he's a mean guy - the guy is a great football player ... And every week, he's a guy you want to go to battle with, because you can count on him. For 15 weeks, Keith lined up week in and week out, good, bad, indifferent, and played his butt off at a very high level for us."

There's a good chance Traylor is back in the NFL in 2008. Sure, he'll be older than Brett Favre, but there's always a market for fat guys who can clog up the line of scrimmage. I'd just suggest giving Traylor his own row on the team play to avoid any Passenger 57 silliness, though.