The Seahawks' offense was stagnant early in Sunday's win against the Giants, which led to frustration. That anger boiled over to the sideline, where players and coaches were upset, including wide receiver Doug Baldwin.
CBS cameras showed Baldwin shoving offensive line coach Tom Cable during a heated exchange.
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Baldwin's teammates stepped in to try to break up the fight, and coach Pete Carroll got involved, as well.
After the game, Baldwin apologized for his actions, saying it was "100 percent" his fault and that he loves Cable "to death."
"I lost my cool," Baldwin said. "It's 100 percent my fault. At that moment, I was really frustrated with the offense as a whole. Not the coaching staff, but the players. Again it goes back to our Xs and Os, it wasn’t the play calls we just didn’t execute. Whether it was passing the ball, blocking, catching, jumping offside whatever it may be, we weren’t executing as players and to me there is nothing a coach can say. We have to take accountability for that, so I got a little passionate about it. At that moment that players needed to realize it’s the players not the coaches.
"I don’t know I wish I would have done it differently, Cable and I have the same mindset, we both want the same thing. In that moment, he said what he said and I was going to say the exact same thing so I guess it worked out, but obviously I wish it would have been different."
The rest of the Seahawks downplayed the incident, with quarterback Russell Wilson saying it's "not a big deal." Carroll added that Baldwin was upset because he wanted Wilson to speak to the offense before Cable did.
“We were going to call the offense up and Russ started talking,” Carroll said. “Doug wanted to let Russ do his talking. I had told Tom to get in the middle of the offense, but Russ was ahead of us by a step and he just tried to hold him off.”
