Washington commanders, defensive coordinator. Jack Del
Rio calling the January 6, Insurrection. A dust-up earlier
this week and also making the false equivalence to the riots
that happened in the aftermath of the murder of George, Floyd
and others
multiple, examples of police violence directed to minorities
in 2020 and the organic reaction to that. The president
of the NAACP said yesterday, it's time for Del Rio to resign
or be fired. Heard in
we kick this around in the lengthy discussion yesterday. Shireen
whether or not it's fair
to ask that basic question will the Washington commanders
a team
like every other NFL team that constantly makes employment
decisions about players based upon the best interest of
the team in the offseason when there are 90 on the roster,
seems like every day,
there's a guy that gets cut and a guy that gets signed guys are
being terminated all the time.
They'll go from 90 to 53 before. Week one, best interest
of the team. Best interest of the team,
you could make the argument. It's in the best interest of
the team to move on from Jack Del Rio. When you consider all
things, number one, he's not Vince Lombardi or Bill
Belichick. All due respect number two,
you've got an impact on your Stadium
funding situation, where the bill is now dead. And one of
the senators in, Virginia said that Del Rio's comments where
the final nail in the coffin. And number three, you may have,
you may have an issue.
In the locker room, although
we're going to play some sound here in a second that it
suggests otherwise. But how can you not have some guys at least
wondering
about that Jack Del Rio after he made those comments Shireen.
Well. And that's been the biggest thing to me Mike
because two things, first washing, a knew what it was
getting when it hired Jack Del Rio. I mean he's never hidden
his stance on things. We talked
about the 90/10 with Tom Brady Jack Del Rio's, not a
Afraid of conflict. He puts it out there uses his Twitter
account, probably way more than any of his team's ever would
like him to use it, but he does use it, you know, exactly where
Jack Del Rio stands, which is
the only reason that he was asked about the hearings that are
that went on yesterday
is because of his stance. That's the only reason he was
asked because of things. He has put out there on Twitter.
Nobody else in the NFL that I know of was asked those
questions this week, an immediate media availability
These. But he was simply because he's put it out there
about how he feels that's the first thing. So they knew what
they were getting when they hired him and the second thing
is
that's the deal. We've heard so many people call for his
ouster, including former players have, have criticized
him big time. Some of his own former players have criticized
him big time.
We haven't heard a single player on that defense yet and
maybe they will, but they haven't yet come out and
disagreed with anything that Jack Del Rio said or
Said, I've had a conversation with Jack Del Rio, or any of
those things. We've seen none of that so far. So, to me,
unless some of those players start to bicker about Jack Del
Rio, I don't think they're going to make a move to oust
Jack Del Rio
one player who spoke out on the issue did not complain about
what Del Rio had to say. Here's Jonathan Allen from earlier
this week on Del Rio's comments.
This is a tough one to forgive me, but I got to ask
Jack Del Rio defensive coordinators been pretty
active. His Twitter lately, some political stuff that kind
of runs counter to a lot of what players have said, does
any of that
make news in the locker room?
Not really, to be honest with you, meet personally I stay
away from it, I've heard about it but I don't get on
a specifically. So I don't have to really answer question cause
I really don't know. But in
my opinion, Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, some guys
decide to share it on Twitter. Some guys don't doesn't make
one person better than the other. And at the end of that,
you can have a difference in the pain and still respect one
another. I mean I feel like
What our country is about, that's what our team's about.
So, I mean, me personally, I don't care about his opinion,
his opinion, as long as he shows up every day and he
worked hard. I mean, that's what I want for my defensive
coordinator,
I look, I have no problem with that in concept, Everyone's
entitled to their own opinion, but as we said, yesterday,
you're not entitled to your own facts, we can have a debate
about whether or not the world is round with the World is
Flat.
And that is the equivalent of having a debate about whether
or not there was an Insurrection or a dust-up at
the US Capitol on January 6. And if you watched any Or all
of last night's hearing
with an open mind.
And a functioning brain.
You recognize that it was hardly a dust stop and
and it has a side of it too.
It's kind of hard for the players to speak out publicly.
This is more about something they'd handle among themselves
and talk about among themselves as to whether or not they have
a problem, maybe approach Ron Rivera
and say, look, you know, we're not going to air out the dirty
laundry publicly. But privately, this is maybe
something we need to deal with
well and they all have leadership councils. Most teams
do I assume that the Then maybe some other players on
a Leadership Council for the team and that's where this needs to
be addressed. And it does need
to be addressed Mike
whether they're whether they don't care about what he said
or they have a fierce
disagreement with what Jack Del Rio said, it does need to be
discussed within the team, I think, at least within
the Leadership Council by Ron Rivera to see where they stand
on this,
and I'm sure that's happening as you said,
there will be some players who talked about this, if they're
That's what Jack Del Rio said. We're going to hear something
from some of these players at some point, if they are against
it,
I suspect that Ron Rivera has been working feverishly to put
out the fire to the extent. There is one I think
the apology from Jack Del Rio on Wednesday with something that
he was told in no uncertain terms. I don't know this,
but I think he was told
you either post this apology or you pack your stuff and get out
of here. So
we'll see where it goes whether or not between the end of
the offseason program and the start of Training camp. We have
a change of defensive coordinator. That's up to. I'm
not calling for it. That's their decision. They have to
make
that decision, but if they do, it won't really surprised me
too.