“There’s always drama, man,” Santana Moss said of the Redskins during the wide receiver’s weekly appearance with 106.7 The Fan’s Chad Dukes on Tuesday. “I’ve been here for 10 years and it ain’t been drama-free yet.”
Moss spent part of the bye week in Florida, where he saw his nephew play in a high school football game. He said he also saw the latest chapter in the Redskins’ latest drama-filled season unfold on Sunday’s pregame shows, watching Ryan Clark address Britt McHenry’s report that Robert Griffin III had alienated himself from his teammates on ESPN before changing the channel to Fox to see DeSean Jackson talk about his decision to stand up for Griffin.
“I think they did a pretty good job, man, just stating facts,” Moss said of his teammates’ guest appearances. “At the end of the day, it’s always going to be something. When it comes to it, we ain’t winning games, when you have a quarterback or two quarterbacks that have won for us and played a little decent, and then you have your starter, you have your guy coming back off of injury. Everyone has their own opinions, but when it comes down to our locker room, we’re going to ride with whatever coach rides with. It don’t really matter who’s out there, because at the end of the day, we’re trying to win games.”
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Moss also tried to clarify the message that Jackson delivered to the team.
“I don’t think a lot of people realize what DeSean was trying to say,” Moss said. “Basically, what he was saying is that, regardless of whatever whose opinion, if you express your opinion, then you’re expressing your opinion and that’s where it should stop. He was kind of ticked off because whatever was said got out to the media and people were saying things that maybe you and someone was talking about, or someone else was talking. That’s got to stop, man. You got these cats dry snitching and telling media in-house business. They’re gonna find out a lot of stuff. They’re gonna ask a lot of questions, so if you’re one of the guys they talk to, you can tell them a lot. But stuff that’s kept in-house, kept in that meeting room, in that locker room, you can’t go out and leak that out to sources or whoever.”
As 106.7 The Fan’s Chris Lingebach notes, dry snitching is defined in the Urban Dictionary as “indirectly telling secrets or offenses to a person of authority or any person meant to be kept away from a secret or offense, sometimes inadvertently.” Moss’ assessment of the situation and talk of dry snitching would seem to jibe with NFL reporter Jason La Canfora’s recent comments that there are always a couple of bad apples with the Redskins who are willing to share things with the media.
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Moss said he has no problem with the media doing their jobs, but that the locker room should remain a place where players can “kick back and do what we do when we’re not on the field.” He also expressed frustration with what Dukes described as the media’s fixation on Griffin.
“I’ve been irritated with it,” Moss said. “I mean, to be honest with you, I’ve been irritated with it. It has to be tough on Robert. And that’s why I say, at the end of the day, you have to look at his standpoint, when it comes down to it’s always about him. Regardless if it ain’t about him, it’s always about him. But, at the same time, being the player that he is and how he came in, it comes with the territory. So my hat’s off to him. However he handles it, my hat’s off to him because I know it’s tiring to me. … I guess until we’re winning games and doing what we’re supposed to do, then they won’t let up.”
And in the meantime, stopping the snitching — dry or otherwise — would probably help limit the drama.
Listen to Moss’ entire interview here. Thanks to @BlueShortsLIFE.
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