After Norman intercepted a pass and forced a fumble on consecutive Carolina possessions during the first half of the Redskins' win, Hall tweeted at his former teammate: “If I need to be the bad guy for you to Ball Out, damn it. I’ll be the bad guy. Keep it up.”

For Hall, being the bad guy meant calling out Norman’s performance after he was briefly benched in last Monday’s blowout loss to the Saints. In pointed comments to the Sports Junkies on 106.7 The Fan last week, Hall suggested Norman was “in love with being a celebrity right now and not necessarily being a football player.” When reporters asked Norman to respond, he called Hall’s comments “shocking” and said he had been Hollywood “ever since I came out my mama’s womb."

Hall didn’t back down from his criticism.

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“I’m not saying something and going to hide under a rock,” he told 106.7 The Fan’s Chad Dukes on Thursday. “I’m saying it and I’ll look you in your face, and I’ll see you on Sunday, because I’ll be at the game, too.”

Though Norman’s play did most of the talking, he was given another chance to respond to Hall’s criticism during Sunday’s postgame show.

“It’s all good,” Norman said. “That’s what it is. It’s part of the job description. I understand that. You gotta comment some kind of way. You gotta get on and say something. You know we hear it though. . . . I get it. We’re all a part of the media aspect, and like I said, I respect the hell out of you."

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Hall, who helped recruit Norman to D.C., then explained where he was coming from with his criticism, and argued that disagreements make for healthy conversation.

“I’m not always going to agree with you, you’re not always going to agree with me,” Hall said. “You think I was wrong, I thought maybe you were wrong, and so, I’m man enough to say, ‘Hey bro, you balled out, keep doing your thing.’ You keep doing that, and we’re going to win a lot of football games, because those guys follow you. Whether you know it or not, they follow you. So when you’re ballin’, they’re ballin'.”

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“Right, right, right,” Norman said. “We had a great game, we had a great outing. But some things that go on on the field, it’s not a statistic thing in what we do. You should know that. But at the end of the day, all those guys, they rallied behind us, and they’re all for us no matter what happens. It’s all 11 guys. It’s not one guy. It’s not one guy that makes this thing go."

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“I’m going to end this kumbaya with one more thing,” Hall said. “Nothing that I have ever said has been malicious. It has been strictly to see you shine, because I’ve sat in that room with you. I know what it takes to be great and I know you have what it takes to be great. I just wanna see you keep your foot on their throat and keep grinding, man. And I do know how hard you work. A lot of people don’t see it. They don’t see that after practice stuff you put in and all that other stuff. Like I said, if I had got that call from [Darrell] Green saying, ‘Hey, look man, you ain’t doing what you need to do, we need to see a little more out of you,' I was going to try to put on that performance that you put on today. So, hats off, my man. Way to do your thing. I’m proud of you.”

During his weekly appearance with the Junkies Monday morning, Hall said Sunday’s face-to-face meeting was productive, and assured listeners that he and Norman remain friends. If Hall plans to be the bad guy to motivate Norman ahead of the Redskins' meeting with the Cowboys, that will apparently have to wait for later in the week.

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“We were able to address a couple of things in that sit-down, and we all really cleared the air,” Hall said. “I think a lot of people felt like it looked a little awkward when we first sat down, but by the end of the conversation, it was all love. Like I said, I root for him as well as a bunch of other guys in that locker room. Like I told him, I want to see you shine, I want to see this team and this defense shine.”

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