The Philadelphia Eagles struggled mightily against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC wild-card round on Monday night.
Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts didn’t look like himself in the game, which sparked former NFL coach Jay Gruden to share on social media that he was sorry if he ever put a quarterback through what Hurts was going through on the field.
“Pick up a blitz!” Gruden tweeted about the Eagles in Hurts’ defense, which earned an instant response from one of Gruden’s old players.
Robert Griffin III, the former Washington Commanders quarterback who now works for ESPN, instantly responded to his old coach with a very funny retort: “Say WHATTTT???”
Say WHATTTT??? https://t.co/TAHWqvDoce pic.twitter.com/mnuh9VafCz
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) January 16, 2024
Gruden and Griffin continued to exchange words after the initial tweet, with the former Commanders quarterback throwing some sharp barbs his old coach’s way.
You told me you didn’t know how to coach a QB who could throw and run like me, so looks like you weren’t prepared Jay. https://t.co/hrcZFXISkk pic.twitter.com/qiikYkFkpq
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) January 16, 2024
The pair never clicked while the two were together in Washington as coach-and-player, which Griffin eventually saying that he just wasn’t Gruden guy after the latter eventually switched to Kirk Cousins way back when.
However, it appears that Griffin hasn’t forgotten how things went with Gruden in the 2010s, as Gruden’s open-ended apology appears to have found a very willing taker.
