Rooster is angry that…the Commanders put the ping-pong table back in the locker room?

The Commanders have officially ticked off the Rooster…by putting the ping-pong table back in the locker room? Yes, if you're a Day 1 clucker, you know why Chris Russell hates this, but if not:

"About six years ago, I once said on the afternoon show on The Fan, back before 980 was owned by Audacy and was just a stand-alone station, that I thought part of the reason why the Commanders, then the Redskins, had a losing culture, losing atmosphere, sloppy play, low football IQ in some cases, just a lot of dysfunction, was because they spent too much time playing ping pong in the locker room," Rooster explained Monday. "Dan Steinberg, who was writing the DC Sports Bog, which was an extremely popular column then, wrote it up in detail and my goodness, did it explode! I mean, there was a lot of anger at your boy, but there were a lot of people that agreed with me!"

It's now back, and Matt-E-Ice, for one, doesn't think taking time out to play no worse than the 20th best sport contested at the Summer Olympics is a bad thing.

"I'm just gonna go on a limb and say I think you can have a ping pong table in a room and it's fine," Mr. Essig said, "but if you blow up the Rooster about this, I don't want to be in the shrapnel."

Rooster doesn't want the backlash, but all this time later, he still thinks 'there is absolutely nothing wrong with my opinion.'

"At the time, I can absolutely tell you, and Jay Gruden was the head coach and I've told him this, the team was too loose, too lax. It didn't mean that they were a bad football team, or that they didn't care, but it was too loose and too lax," Chris said. "There were too many guys that cared more about ping pong than about being better at their job, whether it be in their playbook, studying film, talking football, extra time on the practice field, whatever it might be. And I was right! And I will contend that I am absolutely right until my dying day."

Great, Chris, but, uh…

"The first thing Ron he did was get rid of it. Now, it didn't work out for him, the team still stunk; they weren't that much worse than Jay Gruden's teams, but they certainly were the final year, right?" Chris said. "They started 0-5 in Jay's final year, so I mean, there are some parallels. But the ping pong table, as I said back then, more symbolic of guys not busting their ass and doing everything they can do."

To Rooster, because NFL players have six months or so away from the building, when they are there, it's time to work.

"In the NFL, players are not required to be in the facility from like mid-January until one three-day period in June, and then full bore in late-July. Obviously, they should be for voluntary workouts, but that's a whole other issue that they're not required to be," he said. "We do not ask them to work that much. They're on vacation essentially five months out of the year. They're in the building, most of them, from 8 a.m. until maybe 4 p.m., and not all the time. It's not that much to ask: can we play ping pong somewhere else? Can we play video games and things elsewhere, not the locker room? I know the locker room is the players' haven, if you will, but the media is allowed in there; you wanna play, do it when the media is not allowed in there!"

And then he went nuts.

"I shouldn't see it! I shouldn't see the starting quarterback playing ping pong! I should see the started quarterback in the film room," he said. "If I see Jayden Daniels playing ping pong ONE time this year, I'm gonna have a conniption!"