Former Redskins Running Back Says Head Coach's Christian Beliefs 'Split the Locker Room'

A former player for the Washington Redskins NFL team said in a recent interview that the team's head coach reportedly "split the locker room" by being outspoken about his Christian religious beliefs.

Clinton Portis, a former running back for the Washington Redskins, said in a recent interview with ESPN 980 this week that head coach Jim Zorn split the unity of the players by repeatedly professing his Christian faith while in the locker room.

 "Coach Zorn lost the locker room because he split the locker room between Christians and ballplayers," Portis in the recent radio interview. "So if you didn't believe in what he believed in, if you weren't Antwaan Randle El — I'm saying it, I'm going to talk, I'm on the radio — if you weren't Antwaan Randle El, if you weren't the guys who sat and prayed with him and did everything the way they thought your life should be, you kind of got, 'Well, you're not doing right' speeches directed toward you."

Portis went on to suggest that he found Zorn's attitude to be "phony" and judgmental.

"I'm grown," Portis continued. "I can do what I want to do. I don't have a police record. If I don't get in no trouble, don't assume the way that I live my life. Don't preach to me about what's right [...] Because you're not right, you're phony. You're sitting here in my face telling me one thing, and then you go behind my back and say something else."