{"id":1515154,"date":"2022-06-14T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515154"},"modified":"2022-06-14T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:34:09","slug":"nfl-coach-jack-del-rio-apologizes-to-team-after-getting-fined-deleting-twitter-account-over-jan-6-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-coach-jack-del-rio-apologizes-to-team-after-getting-fined-deleting-twitter-account-over-jan-6-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Coach Jack Del Rio Apologizes To Team After Getting Fined, Deleting Twitter Account Over Jan. 6 Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnfl-coach-jack-del-rio-apologizes-to-team-after-getting-fined-deleting-twitter-account-over-jan-6-remarks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515154&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nfl\">NFL<\/a> coach Jack Del Rio\u2019s contrition tour continued Tuesday morning with an apology to members of the Washington Commanders for his comments last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nfl-coach-jack-del-rio-deletes-twitter-account-after-team-fined-him-for-jan-6-remarks\">comparing the January 6 riot<\/a> to the widespread rioting in the summer of 2020 following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/george-floyd\">death of George Floyd<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Del Rio, who was fined $100,000 by the team and forced to apologize last week for saying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/january-6\">January 6<\/a> riot was a \u201cdust-up\u201d and not as bad as the 2020 riots that caused billions of dollars in damage, delivered a private mea culpa to the team. The defensive coordinator\u2019s message was \u201cwell received,\u201d according to Washington Head Coach Ron Rivera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJack spoke to the team this morning during the team meeting and was very open and contrite and apologized and was open to questions,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cHe said, \u2018Guys if you have any questions come see me and let\u2019s talk about that.\u2019 It was good. I\u2019m about reconciliation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Why in the world are we treating January 6th as if it is the only riot that has ever occurred in our nation&#8217;s history?&#8221; \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClayTravis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ClayTravis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WashingtonCommanders?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WashingtonCommanders<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JackDelRio?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JackDelRio<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4vgFOltxKW\">https:\/\/t.co\/4vgFOltxKW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OutKick (@Outkick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Outkick\/status\/1536467730664148994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Del Rio ran afoul of the famously woke league when he questioned why the Capitol riot was receiving so much more condemnation than the riots of two summers ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusinesses are being burned down, no problem and then we have a dust-up at the Capitol, nothing burned down and we\u2019re gonna make that a major deal,\u201d Del Rio said Wednesday, after he\u00a0was asked about a tweet from earlier in the week where he said he would love to understand the \u201cwhole story\u201d of what happened during the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The former head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars and then Oakland Raiders went on to clarify his comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m being respectful. I just asked a simple question,\u201d he said. \u201cLet\u2019s get right down to it: What did I ask? A simple question. Why are we not looking into [the protests], if we\u2019re going to talk about [the Capitol riot]? Why are we not looking into those things?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But later that day,\u00a0Del Rio apologized in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReferencing that situation as a dust-up was irresponsible and negligent and I am sorry,\u201d he said. \u201cI stand by my comments condemning violence in communities across the country. I say that while also expressing my support as an American citizen for peaceful protest in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Rivera announced that the team had fined Del Rio $100,000, with the proceeds going to the U.S. Capitol Police Memorial Fund. A day later,\u00a0Del Rio\u00a0deleted his Twitter account, which had\u00a0nearly 100,000 followers.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera insisted Tuesday that the disciplinary action was not aimed at silencing Del Rio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not about the fact he exercised his right to free speech,\u201d Rivera said. \u201cThis is about him impacting the football team. I believe in the First Amendment very strongly. It\u2019s a very serious question and topic, but at the end of the day it did impact us and that\u2019s why I did what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL coach Jack Del Rio\u2019s contrition tour continued Tuesday morning with an apology to members of the Washington Commanders for his comments last week comparing the January 6 riot to the widespread rioting in the summer of 2020 following the death of George Floyd. Del Rio, who was fined $100,000 by the team and forced &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1890177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nfl-coach-jack-del-rio-apologizes-to-team-after-getting-fined-deleting-twitter-account-over-jan-6-remarks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}