Teammates forgive Williams' tweet of playbook page
Teammates forgive Williams' tweet of playbook page
UPDATED: 06/12/2012

By ARNIE STAPLETON, AP Pro Football Writer

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — To his forgiving teammates, Denver LB D.J. Williams' tweet of a playbook page last week was more LOL than OMG.

"I called him immediately," Champ Bailey said Tuesday after the Broncos began a three-day mandatory minicamp. "After you really looked at it, it really wasn't that big of a deal."

Williams was blasted on social media for what many considered a serious breach of protocol and security in the supersecretive world of the NFL after he tweeted a photo of his new high tech playbook Friday that showed six defensive formations or variations of the same formation.

Some say Williams, a ninth-year pro, should have known better than to reveal propriety information, no matter how innocuous. Others have been downright nasty, suggesting he should be cut for doing what he did.

Bailey called the public reaction to Williams' tweets "really overblown, but at the same time, got to be careful about that kind of stuff because people take it the wrong way."

Williams posted a photo of his new iPad playbook sitting on a desk behind a stack of note cards, a pencil sharpener and a pencil. The picture was followed by a tweet saying his coach told him to learn a new position over the weekend and that while the Broncos have uploaded their playbook and football film onto hand-held tablets, he was still old school and "using flash cards."

The team didn't find the joke funny.

After a call from a member of the organization, Williams quickly deleted the photo but it had already gone viral and certainly was seen by other NFL teams.

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