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One of the dangers of inviting the Hard Knocks cameras into your training camp is that the people you work with know they’re being filmed around the clock, and they play to those cameras.
That may have been what happened in practice yesterday, as offensive coordinator Todd Haley and defensive coordinator Gregg Williams got into a shouting match that will be great for HBO’s unscripted drama.
Via Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the flare-up started when a defensive player made contact with quarterback Baker Mayfield during a drill.
That triggered Haley to yell to the defense: “Don’t touch the [expletive] quarterback in practice! Good teams don’t do it!”
Williams replied: “Somebody’s gotta f-king block ’em.”
And so it went, two coordinators swearing at each other in front of God and everybody, until coach Hue Jackson broke it up.
“Oh, I like a little testy,” Jackson said afterward. “Testy’s good. I’m surprised we’re just now getting testy. No, they’re fine….
