TAMPA (106.7 The Fan) -- The Washington Redskins defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 16-3, at Raymond James Stadium in Week 10 of the season.
Cornerback Josh Norman was asked about the Redskins playing better on the road. Here's his response, in full:
"I feel like we play better on the road, I'm not gonna lie. Gosh, man. It seems like our true fans, they're really with us on the road and we feed off of that. When we go into the home stands, it seems like (sigh) an open bubble or something. Like the other team's turf or something. You hear more of them than you do us. Then, if something bad happens, they sulk. They sit back in their seat and they boo. I don't know.
"It started to be this year that we started to see that. It's kinda crazy because the first couple of years I've been here, you would see sellouts and all happy and excited and all for the Redskins, but now you go around see the whole NFC East teams – the Philly's, the Giants and even Dallas --- they sold out. People in the seats, they're cheering for their team. Regardless good, bad or indifferent they still showing up each and every week going hard. Even the Giants, when they was 1-6, hell they had a sellout crowd. They was all in there packed still!
"We come back to our home and guys…they just don't really care. They just boo everything. They're not really behind us. We don't really feel that. I'm tired of it. I really am. We can play all our games on the road if you ask me, but at the end of the day the people who are going to be for you, the fans that are really going to have your back? They'll be there. The other ones, man? It is what it is. Can't really speak on them. They're gonna talk about what they're gonna talk about anyway. They all keyboard warriors anyway."
Norman followed up that statement to the media with this tweet:
This will obviously upset a lot of fans. It's also not wrong. The best way to make everyone happy? Show up in numbers on Sunday and have the players put on a performance worth cheering for. The Redskins are 6-3 and atop the division.
