Washington Redskins safety D.J. Swearinger said Tuesday the Houston Texans "bashed my name pretty bad" after hiring Bill O'Brien as their head coach to replace Gary Kubiak.
John Keim of ESPN.com noted Swearinger, who spent the first two seasons of his career in Houston, didn't enjoy the culture change when O'Brien took over in 2014:
"Kubiak let me be myself, let me do whatever as long as I played ball. O'Brien was a control guy: 'You can't do this. You can't do that.' It came to a point where the DB coach [John Butler] took something I said wrong about the film and told coach O'Brien.