David Irving just heard from an NFL legend regarding his claims on Jason Garrett.

Irving contends it was the Dallas Cowboys' head coach who told him to quit so he can "smoke all the weed" he wants, but now things have mushroomed to inflammatory levels. In a recent interview with Damon Amendolara of CBS Sports Radio, the former lineman claims his rift with Garrett isn't about weed or his lack of dedication to football.

As Irving tells it, Garrett is both jealous of his talent and doesn't know how to interact with African-Americans.

"Jason Garrett and I have never really gotten along," Irving said. "To be honest with you, not many people get along with this man. I wish I could put a finger on [why]. I really do.

"I don't think it's just one reason. It's not just one person that can't get along with him. It's a lot of people. If I can say anything, I feel like he needs to be more comfortable with people of color, to be honest with you.

"This is a league where there's a lot of people of color around, and you're going to have to deal with us. If you don't know how to talk to us or relate to us, I don't know. It's a tough position, but we just never got along and he's the only person I haven't gotten along with."

Irving went on to veil his unprovoked racial comments by stating he doesn't believe Garrett is a racist, instead labeling him as "socially awkward" before listing another reason he feels the Cowboys' head coach never liked him.

"I know he has a problem with me because I don't necessarily work as hard as he thinks I should work to be as good as I am at football," he said. "I feel like Jason is one of those guys — when growing up in football — he was always the second-hand man or the third-string guy. I feel like he had to work his a-s-s off to even be able to step on the field with some of these guys, whereas for me? I could roll out of the bed with a hangover and go outperform anybody.

"I don't think he likes that."

He's since attempted to walk back the comments, sort of, doubling down on his proclamation that Garrett is not racist — then followed by tripling down on just how "socially awkward" he believes Garrett to be.

One Cowboys' legend has heard enough to feel he couldn't bite his tongue any longer.

Former safety Darren Woodson, who played alongside Garrett in the Cowboys' glory days and regularly spends time at the Cowboys' facility in Frisco, TX to this day, made his feelings on the matter crystal-clear.

"I don't even want to spend the time talking about David Irving and those comments, honestly," Woodson said, via The Shan & RJ Show on 105.3FM The Fan in Dallas."...I've known Jason Garrett since 1993, and have become friends — good friends — with he and his wife. ...Not only Jason, but his father and brother [as well]. It's just hard to swallow these shots going his way when I know the man's heart and I know who he is as a person. And for people to take shots at him — I don't care if it's a current player or a former player — I know who Jason Garrett is.

"I know the man. I'm a firm believer in him and have a ton of confidence in him."

Woodson wasn't the only person close to Garrett who spoke out against Irving's claims, with former NFL quarterback Sage Rosenfels having words of his own to express.

"I’ve known Jason Garret for 15 years," he said, via Twitter. "This statement may be the dumbest and least true that I’ve ever read about him."

Duke Manyweather, an offensive line scouting and development guru that has also worked with Garrett, wasn't nearly as kind.

"Naw! [Jason Garrett] is uncomfortable around grown children who can’t wake up on their own, get to places on time, be a professional, or take responsibility even with a support system!" he tweeted. "Few of those on that defensive line! JUST STOP! This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard!"

Garrett spent time as an NFL player on five separate teams and has been either an assistant coach or head coach in the league for the past 14 seasons, and has spent an innumerable amount of man hours interacting with and cultivating talented men of color — with Irving being the singular player (former or otherwise) in Garrett's two decade NFL stretch to make such accusations. Even in the most venomous divorces (Dez Bryant, for example), no one has ever alleged Garrett had an issue connecting with minorities.

This means either Irving is the sole recipient of the alleged "social awkwardness" toward people of color, or he's looking for new ways to escape accountability.

More telling is how Irving continually ropes back to how he feel Garrett is jealous of his talent, noting consistently how he doesn't have to work as hard as others to play at a high level and because he didn't, Garrett saw it as a slight to his own playing days as a backup for Troy Aikman in the 1990's. It appears Irving never once considered how his lack of work ethic went over with fellow teammates, many of whom are also "blessed" with enough talent to be great by default, but work tirelessly to perfect their craft nonetheless — like DeMarcus Lawrence, for example — who just landed a five-year, $105 million deal with $65 million guaranteed.

Irving could've been in line for mega-money of his own following the second-round tender issued in 2018 that gave him one last chance at making an impact, but the Cowboys instead wound up paying him $2.2 million — sans his unpaid four-game suspension — for only two games of service and one sack last season.

Maybe, just maybe, that's what actually angered Garrett, along with the aforementioned list of other issues.

It appears Woodson with agree with that assessment, wholeheartedly.