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Seahawks LB Derick Hall says he and teammates have made up after fight shown on HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks’ 30%

By WTOP Staff42%

8/5/2026, 5:37:38 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Optimism Bias, and Hasty Generalization, with Self-Serving Bias as the most egregious example at 11.8% saturation with 62 hits. Analysis detected 465 faulty-reasoning hits from 526 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 33.4% and a BS Rank of 30% (20,334 of 28,846 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 70.50% of the article peer group.

RENTON, Wash. 
(AP)  The defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks are being featured on the HBO series “Hard Knocks” for the first time in franchise history, and it didn’t take long for some someone to stir the pot. 
Last Friday, Seahawks linebacker Derick Hall put offensive lineman Bryce Cabeldue into a chokehold and body-slammed him during a fight in practice that was shown on the first episode, which debuted Tuesday night. 
Cabeldue and linebacker Tyrice Knight shoved one another before Hall brought Cabeldue to the ground. 
Following Wednesday’s practice, Hall acknowledged that things got out of control, but he said he and his teammates have since made up. 
“At the end of the day, we all love each other,” Hall said. 
“We’re a team. 
We are a brotherhood. 
At the end of the day, it happened out here. 
We go in the locker room, you know, ‘Hey man, I apologize, that was beyond the line of where we’re trying to go, where we trying to get.’ 
And we move forward.” 
During the episode, defensive coordinator Aden Durde revealed to coach Mike Macdonald that fullback and special teams captain Brady Russell had egged Hall on. 
According to Durde, Russell said Hall, who signed a $42 million, three-year contract extension in June , had changed because of his new deal. 
When asked if the players involved in the fight have smoothed over the situation, Macdonald said they had. 
“Yeah, the guys have been great,” Macdonald said Wednesday. 
“The guys have been awesome.” 
Macdonald said he is proud of his team for the way it has handled itself and was presented in the episode of the long-running docuseries, barring a “couple of fun exceptions.” 
Hall agreed with the coach. 
“I think it shows who we are as a unit, as a team, right?” 
Hall said. 
“Things happen out here on the football field, obviously, as you saw in the episode.” 
Hall was also featured off the field. 
He arrived for the Seahawks’ first day of training camp in a souped-up truck that he modified himself. 
The 6-foot-3, 254-pounder drove his truck over an HBO camera, smashing it. 
“I ran (it) over and they were like, ‘D-Hall, did you feel something when you rolled in?’” 
Hall said. 
“I’m like, ‘No.’ 
And then they showed me the camera and it was just smashed. 
So, I was like, ‘Dang, I apologize.’ 
I know it’s unique, it’s authentic, but I did smash the camera.” 
Much like that incident, Hall is moving on from the fight. 
Even though he was captured during a tough moment, he has enjoyed being part of the show. 
“I love it. 
I love it,” Hall said. 
“I think that’s a big piece of what they’re trying to do. 
Again, it just shows who we are as a team. 
What guys do outside of football. 
A lot of people see us in this limelight as professional athletes, and what we do on the field, and these media sessions, different things like that. 
So, I think it’s pretty cool.” 
AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL 
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526 words analyzed.

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3speakers64%attributed speech187writer words
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Aden Durde

50%flagged-word coverage
48 attributed words14% of attributed speech81% writer coverage
0%25.0%50.0%Biased Writer Voice+50.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Aden Durde: 50.0%50.0%Unattributed Quote-9.1 ptsWriter: 9.1%Aden Durde: 0.0%0.0%

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