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LaVar Arrington, his NFL career over because of injury, blasted Hall of Fame Coach Joe Gibbs for leaving the Washington Redskins with a year remaining on his $25 million contract. Arrington said the only reason Gibbs returned to coaching at all was to get money to run his NASCAR team according to a report in the Washington Times.

"I called Joe Gibbs a coward for leaving," Arrington said. "You came in, you made some money for your NASCAR team. No one else is going to say that. I'm sure more people thought I was a [jerk] for saying that. Joe wouldn't call me because he knows. There are a lot of people who know the truth about what went down with me and the Redskins."

As for Snyder, Arrington called him after Taylor's funeral to try to heal their breach and greeted him at a luncheon last week, but to no avail, he believes.

"I think Dan Snyder is scared to death of me," Arrington said. "He won't look at me. I tried to shake his hand at that luncheon. He shook my hand and was like, 'How you doing, LaVar?' and kept moving. I'm probably the only person that's ever stood up to him and never backed down. I actually humbled myself to call Dan after Sean passed away to try to bury whatever me and him had going on between us. He called me back, and it was almost like he was reading a script. I root for the Redskins because how I feel about the fans outweighs how the organization treated me. I always take pleasure in taking jabs at Dan because people like him need that. There's got to be a person out there who's not afraid to do it."

Source: Washington Times