Jack Del Rio appears to have escaped a tumultuous week with his job as Washington Commanders defensive coordinator intact.
Moving forward, it appears that the 59-year-old will be keeping his political takes to himself, as he's deleted his Twitter account.
After initially discussing the matter on Twitter, Del Rio drew a false equivalency between the protests that emerged after George Floyd was murdered by police officer Derek Chauvin and the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol when meeting with the media.
"Let’s get right down to it, what did I ask?" Del Rio said when asked about his Twitter activity last Wednesday. "A simple question: Why are we not looking into those things? Because it’s kind of hard for me to say I can realistically look at it, I see the images on TV, people’s livelihoods are being destroyed, businesses are being burned down -- no problem.
"And then we have a dustup at the Capitol, nothing burned down and we’re gonna make that a major deal. I just think it’s kind of two standards."
Del Rio was later fined $100,000 for referring to the insurrection – which left several dead – as "a dust up." The money will be given to the U.S. Capitol Police Memorial Fund.
Before deleting his Twitter account, Del Rio did issue an apology.
Additionally, head coach Ron Rivera said in a statement that "our organization will not tolerate any equivalency between those who demanded justice in the wake of George Floyd's murder and the actions of those on Jan. 6 who sought to topple our government."
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