AP

It’s been a rocky few weeks for the Dolphins and things didn’t get any calmer this week with the firing of head coach Joe Philbin and reports of practice altercations between quarterback Ryan Tannehill and members of the defensive scout team at a practice last Saturday.

Philbin reportedly asked the scout team to go easy on the offense during Saturday walkthroughs and that Tannehill got into a shouting match with linebacker Chris McCain when that didn’t happen. Per the reports, Tannehill told McCain that he’d build a scout team trophy case for him and told another member of the team to enjoy his scout team paycheck.

On Wednesday, Tannehill admitted that things boiled over during the practice and that he made the crack about the scout team trophy case. He strongly denied saying anything about a paycheck, however.

“I said nothing about a paycheck. I hold myself to a higher standard than to say something like that,” Tannehill said, via Jeff Darlington of NFL Media. “Yeah, I’m upset. It’s slanderous to report things I didn’t say, to degrade my reputation, it’s sickening to me.”

If Wednesday’s practice with interim coach Dan Campbell, which featured the Oklahoma drill, is any indication, there won’t be any calls to take it easy in Dolphins practices for the rest of the season.