Hall to file official complaint

Overpaid Washington Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall wants to file a formal complaint with Roger Goodell over what he called cheap shots from Atlanta Falcons coaches as he tried to break up a scrum on the sidelines. He says that his former team’s director of athletic performance, Jeff Fish, tried to “get some licks in.” He also claims that Falcons head coach Mike Smith “cussed me out.”

“I’m going to get on the horn with commissioner Goodell and we’re going to figure out a way how to nip this in the bud,” Hall said. “It’s different with me coming in trying to break stuff up and as a strength coach, if you coming at me and you’re trying to get [expletive] licks, that ain’t how you do things.

“They need to have some repercussions and something needs to happen to them, too. I’m definitely going to get on the phone with some of my guys up there and we’re going to try to figure out a way to nip this thing in the bud.”

Redskins head coach Jim Zorn thought the melee was under control.

“I thought everybody kept it together,” Zorn said. “I thought the officials handled it very well.

“I was watching on the big screen and I knew that DeAngelo was over there and I knew that was a bad place for him to be so I tried to get over there and help the situation. But even DeAngelo coming back to me, he had a real sense of control about the situation, too.”

We’ll see what comes of this. Hall is known to be a bit of a baby, but maybe he has a point here.