AP

Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin pretended to drop his pants Sunday night.

But he was apparently showing his rear well before then.

According to Peter King of Sports Illustrated, Baldwin approached him during practice last week with a weird rant about the perceived lack of respect for the Seahawks receivers. King was the pool reporter at Seahawks practices assigned by the Pro Football Writers of America, thus the only reporter present for the entire workout.

“You’re into this mediocre receiver s—, right? I read your s—,” Baldwin said, directly to King, who indicated he knew not what Baldwin was talking about.

“You’re one of them!” he said. “I read your s—.”

Apparently, Baldwin had s— on his mind all week, and not just while celebrating.

To run the risk of painting with too broad a brush here, it’s easy to draw a conclusion about Baldwin’s antics and the result of the game.

The Seahawks as a group let their emotions get the better of them at several junctures, including the embarrassing end-game fight (and getting drawn into an encroachment penalty which allowed the Patriots to take an easy knee).

They’re a very good football team. But they’ve played the swaggering bully card for so long, that they didn’t respond well when someone finally punched back.