Portis airs a grievance with Arrington over Taylor

One player who's been in regular attendance during the Redskins' offseason conditioning program is Clinton Portis. And he's expected to be present at the team's second minicamp this weekend, showing coaches why he deserves to start ahead of Larry Johnson and Willie Parker this season.

He spoke recently with Chris Russell of 106.7 The Fan and among his most intriguing comments were the words he directed toward former Redskin LaVar Arrington. Portis discussed Arrington's actions following the death of Sean Taylor.

"I lost a lot of respect for LaVar at that moment, speaking at Sean's funeral," Portis said. "To get up, I really thought that was, um, I don't know what you call that. LaVar ain't know Sean like that. For the people who did, seeing how LaVar was going to portray -- I remember me and Sean was going to jump LaVar, you know, for throwing pie at Sean's face his rookie year and trying to haze Sean and be the tough guy. He felt like it was a joke. We didn't like that [expletive]. For all the attention LaVar claim and that him and Sean was cool -- they wasn't cool. Sean ain't [expletive] with LaVar. Sometime, people should stop... I don't think you should do that. If you cool with somebody or you know somebody, you knew 'em. Don't go and portray. Set out an image like this is your buddy, this is your pal -- like you all hung, when you all really didn't. I don't think that's fair, man."

As for Arrington's response, he tweeted earlier this week: "he said some dumb stuff again whats with this kid? they say he hired a pr firm to clean up his image-they need to tell him my name coming out of his mouth will only make this pr firms job harder..."

"i mean really does this guy have a real man crush on me?lol i have been told im sexy lol anyways as usual hes crossed the line again..."
"if u didnt think this guy was a baphoon b4 this certainly makes a strong case and there will b no rant sorry"

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(washingtonpost.com)