{"id":694221,"date":"2018-12-09T20:20:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T01:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=694221"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:19:12","slug":"d-j-swearinger-dont-blame-the-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=694221","title":{"rendered":"D.J. Swearinger: Don&#8217;t blame the players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LANDOVER \u2014 D.J. Swearinger has never been shy about calling out his teammates. The Redskins safety has done so in the past, questioning their preparation in practice.<\/p>\n<p>But when asked about the team&#8217;s freefall in stopping the run, Swearinger made his thoughts clear after Sunday&#8217;s 40-16 loss to the New &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/dec\/9\/dj-swearinger-says-not-blame-players-run-defense-w\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/dec\/9\/dj-swearinger-says-not-blame-players-run-defense-w\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"D.J. Swearinger: Don&#039;t blame the players\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANDOVER \u2014 D.J. Swearinger has never been shy about calling out his teammates. The Redskins safety has done so in the past, questioning their preparation in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908187,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694221\/revisions\/1908187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}