Steve Cofield at Yahoo shows one of The Ultimate Fighter‘s extended clips to defend Josh Koscheck’s spat with medic/”male nurse” Brad Tate, saying Tate mocked one of Koscheck’s fighters over his accent. Full post with video is here.

That defense would be a little tighter if Koscheck hadn’t been spending so much of the season mocking Georges St. Pierre’s accent and yelling that he’s never going to lose “to a French guy.” At the end of the video, Koscheck offers a sincere apology.

The rest of the video, though, casts Koscheck in a better light. He wants to be the lightning rod for his team. He shoves his guys away from Tate, urging them to focus elsewhere. “I’ll be the bad guy,” he says.

Those scenes lend more credence to the idea that Koscheck has a method to his meanness. He wants to get in other fighters’ heads, though he’s failing miserably so far with GSP, and he wants to sell fights, an area in which he might be more successful.

Perhaps he also learned his lesson from earlier in the season, when he was more willing to help his fighters run their mouths after a rare Team Koscheck victory. If he was trying to help his team swing the momentum, he failed.

Some of Koscheck’s “bad boy” act is indeed an act, and the TUF editing can make him seem worse (or better) than he is. He doesn’t deserve the vandalism on his Wikipedia page — and Wikipedia’s editors surely deserve a break. But that act is a tough one to carry out, day after day. Does he put too much effort into it, and at one point does the role consume the actor?