Safety D.J. Swearinger, who played two seasons for Washington's NFL team from 2017-18, took to social media to share a tense text conversation he had with former head coach Jay Gruden.
In a post on Instagram, Swearinger wrote that "things went south" for him in Washington when Gruden sent him a series of texts stemming from an interview the veteran safety gave after the team's 40-16 loss to the New York Giants late in the 2018 season:
"He Wanted Me To Act Out But I Handled It Professionally & The Next Day He Told Me That Somebody Told Him That I Said Something About him in the interview but when he watched the interview he realized that person was lying & he actually agreed with everything I said.