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Former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer issued an apology over the weekend after he was caught on video berating and shoving one of his high school football players.
Dilfer, the head coach of Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Tenn., was seen grabbing tight end Beau Dawson by the front of his shoulder pads while screaming in the player’s face.
Dawson is the son of former NFL kicker Phil Dawson, who is the school’s special teams coordinator.
Trent Dilfer, a Super Bowl-winning quarterback who coaches high school football, was caught on video over the weekend yelling at one of his players during a game.
Dilfer, the head coach of Lipscomb Football Academy in Tennessee, was seen grabbing one of his players by the top half of his jersey and pushing him. The player, identified as Beau Dawson, appeared to be just upset as Dilfer. The former quarterback demanded the player sit on the bench and Dilfer had to be separated from the high school player.
Dilfer released a statement through the school Saturday, addressing the viral video.
“I want to address the incident on our sideline during Friday night’s game versus Independence that has drawn a lot of attention,” he said in the statement. “First and foremost, I take full responsibility as the head coach and leader of our team for not deescalating an emotional situation with one of our players, Beau Dawson. Beau is one of our finest student athletes and embodies all the characteristics we are looking for in our Mustang players.
Former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer, in his third season as a high school football coach, spread through social media for the wrong reasons over the weekend. Now he’s apologizing and clarifying a video that shows him shoving a player down the sidelines while screaming at him.
The footage is from Lipscomb Academy’s 62-7 win at home in Nashville on Friday night during Week 2 of the Tennessee high school football season. Dilfer, who was hired in January of 2019, is seen grabbing the player inside the shoulder pads and steering him away from the team on the sideline as he yells, “sit down now.”
The player is tight end Beau Dawson, the son of former NFL kicker Phil Dawson. Dawson is the school’s special teams coordinator and played with Dilfer on the 2005 Cleveland Browns team.
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Trent Dilfer addresses video of him shoving, screaming at his HS player: ‘I should have been a better leader’
Cassandra Negley
Cassandra Negley·Writer
Mon, August 30, 2021, 10:10 PM·3 min read
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Former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer, in his third season as a high school football coach, spread through social media for the wrong reasons over the weekend. Now he’s apologizing and clarifying a video that shows him shoving a player down the sidelines while screaming at him.
The footage is from Lipscomb Academy’s 62-7 win at home in Nashville on Friday night during Week 2 of the Tennessee high school football season. Dilfer, who was hired in January of 2019, is seen grabbing the player inside the shoulder pads and steering him away from the team on the sideline as he yells, “sit down now.”
The player is tight end Beau Dawson, the son of former NFL kicker Phil Dawson. Dawson is the school’s special teams coordinator and played with Dilfer on the 2005 Cleveland Browns team.
Some were OK with the video, appearing to speculate or assume the player wasn’t taking direction from the coaching squad. Most criticized it throughout the weekend for grabbing a player in such a way and for singling him out. It was also at their home field, so scores of Lipscomb fans, teachers, administrators, athletic department personnel and board of education members saw first-hand what transpired.
The 13-year NFL veteran addressed it in a statement on the school’s website and social pages, taking “full responsibility” and praising Beau as one of Lipscomb’s “finest student-athletes.” He said that while Beau has been pinned the “culprit” of the video, “I should have been a better leader and shown greater wisdom and discernment in how I handled this incident.”
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