Waterloo Region Record

RG3 blasts Moss for his ‘betrayal’

- Scott Gleeson USA Today Sports

Robert Griffin III said Tuesday on Twitter that former Washington Redskins teammate Santana Moss lied and betrayed him after the now retired receiver claimed Griffin gloated about Mike Shanahan’s firing.

Griffin tweeted Tuesday morning: “Santana Moss, I treat you like a brother & have always had your back. To openly lie about me is a betrayal …

“Been lied on a lot over the years.”

In an interview with Chad Dukes of 106.7 The Fan earlier this week, Moss said Shanahan was “robbed of having more years” to coach in Washington and felt it was unfair that the franchise chose Griffin over Shanahan when the quarterbac­k and coach “weren’t seeing eye-to-eye.”

He said Shanahan’s 2013 firing, after the coach benched RG3 for the final three games of the season, was a message from Griffin to the rest of the locker-room.

Moss said: “I’m not sure if that was his whole plan, but when the whole thing went about, we hear that Mike Shanahan’s not coming back the next year, then we hear the quarterbac­k like, ‘Hey. Mm hmm.’ Like, basically saying that you got me out of here not playing last year, the last few games, then that’s what happens. You get fired.

“You can’t do that. One thing I just shared with you, God don’t like ugly. The little credit that (Griffin) did take for saying, ‘They didn’t like what I was doing’ or ‘They benched me and not allowing me to play,’ that’s what happens.”

Griffin, selected second overall by the Redskins in the 2012 National Football League draft, was released by Washington at the end of the ’15 season.

He then signed with the Cleveland Browns but was cut after a season plagued by injuries and inconsiste­nt play, and now remains a free agent.

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