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Trent Dilfer addresses video of him shoving, screaming at his HS player: 'I should have been a better leader'

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.