Ex-Washington Redskins corner back Fred Smoot took time out of retirement to call Robert Griffin III a "brat" and coin a new moniker for coach Mike Shanahan. Smoot also predicted Shanahan is "working his way out" of D.C. and has already lost the locker room, the Washington Post reports.
Smoot, who played most of his NFL career in Washington before retiring in 2009, appeared on 106.7 The Fan on Monday to offer his two-cents about the Redskins' struggles.
"It's about time somebody be honest," Smooth said, via The Post. "Sometimes RGIII can be a brat, alright? ... Sometimes I'm starting to think that RGIII is really really buying into the attention. But I tell anybody this. The NFL will humble you. And I think he's going through that humbling process right now as we speak."
The outspoken ex-corner also addressed Washington's coaching situation, which he believes needs to be changed next season.
"If you're going to make a coaching change for the future, it's time to make it now," he said. "Robert Griffin III has been a Redskin now for one and a half years. If you're gonna change his coach and you want a coach to grow with him like the Bradys and Belichicks and all the great pairs of quarterbacks and coaches, you have to do it now. And right now, I think the Red Lobster's working his way outta here. I think Shanahan is working his way out of here."
Smoot cites the "rift" between Shanahan and Griffin for why the coach must leave.
"(Their relationship is) a problem that no one wants to talk about," Smoot said. "... The Red Lobster and RGIII, they're not compatible right now. And right now, you can't have one without the other. I think one thing the Red Lobster has lost this locker room. I think him and RGIII, I don't know if it's a disrespect there, but they don't respect each other like a coach and a quarterback should.
"And until you get a Cowher, a Gruden, not somebody that RG will bow down to, but he respects in a different way, I think we're going to see the same back-and-forth arguing."
Washington fell to 0-3 on Sunday after losing to Detroit. Is Shanahan already on the hot seat?
