Washington Commanders

Redskins bust out 'salty' meme to fire shot at critics (who have motivated team)

Published Dec. 23, 2015 2:04 p.m. ET

Brett Smiley

Head coach Jay Gruden has found that naysayers and early criticism of the team — suggesting that Washington was destined for more doom, gloom and bottom-feeding mediocrity — has proven to be a nice motivational tool as quality bulletin board and press-conference material.

Gruden could have pointed toward yours truly or any Washington sports radio show for snippets of that kind of prediction, but according to a couple reporters at Gruden's Wednesday press conference, he singled out a couple outlets:

And then @ProFootballTalk responded, and the @Redskins answered right back with some Internet gold:

Gruden specifically called out @espn and @ProFootballTalk for the disrespect towards the #Redskins, and admitted its motivation.
— Anthony Raposa (@AnthonyRaposa) December 23, 2015

Redskins coach Jay Gruden reminded everyone that some people picked them to be the worst team in the league. So... https://t.co/koyhE6a8sj
— John Keim (@john_keim) December 23, 2015