Doug Baldwin: Sideline spat with Tom Cable was ‘100 percent my fault’

Doug Baldwin got physical with a member of the Seattle Seahawks coaching staff during Sunday’s win over the New York Giants, and the star wide receiver later took responsibility for what happened.

With Seattle trailing 7-0 midway through the second quarter, Baldwin was caught by television cameras shoving offensive line coach Tom Cable. The two were later shown having a friendly exchange, and Baldwin said after the game that he apologized to Cable.

“I lost my cool. It’s 100 percent my fault,” Baldwin told reporters, per ESPN’s Brady Henderson. “At that moment, I was really frustrated with the offense as a whole. Not the coaching staff — the players. Again, it goes back to our X’s and O’s. We had the playcalls. We just didn’t execute. Whether it was passing the ball, blocking, catching, jumping offsides, false starting, 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.”

Animated sideline discussions can sometimes look a lot worse on camera than they actually are. Still, Baldwin understands that shoving a coach is never a good look.

“Y’all know I love Cable to death,” the receiver added. “Me and Cable have one of the best relationships from coach to player. That was 100 percent my fault. I already apologized to him. He knows how I am. It’s just at that moment, the players needed to realize it’s the players — it’s not the coaches.”

Things got much better for the Seahawks after the heated sideline discussion, and they went on to cruise to a 24-7 win. Baldwin caught nine passes for 92 yards.