WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — London Fletcher went off Sunday on his former coach, calling Jim Haslett — for whom he played four seasons in Washington — a “clueless” defensive coordinator, and a backstabber.

“The Washington Redskins, and Jay Gruden in particular, better watch his back and get Jim Haslett out of the door,” Fletcher, now an NFL analyst, said on CBS Sports Network’s That Other Pregame Show. “Jay Gruden better get him out of the door because he’s probably backstabbing Jay Gruden like he did everybody else; like he did to Scott Linehan in St. Louis, and like he did to Mike Shanahan in Washington.”

Later in the day, Fletcher defended his comments on Twitter to Haslett’s son, Chase.

Monday morning, 106.7 The Fan radio host Eric Bickel called Fletcher “classless and disrespectful.”

“Regarding London, he may very well be right,” he said at 6:53 a.m, knowing full well Fletcher was scheduled to appear on the show later in the morning. “I’m not gonna argue that Jim Haslett shouldn’t go. I think that’s fine. We need a new defensive coordinator, no question about it. I think he was classless and disrespectful, the way he attacked the guy, who all he did was say great things about London Fletcher. And particularly in that final year, where London Fletcher’s play completely dropped off, and all he did was protect him.”

“I think London Fletcher is a disrespectful phony and I’m gonna tell him at 9,” Bickel would say later.

As scheduled, Fletcher called into The Junkies at 9 a.m., and Bickel proved true to his words.

“Why’s this all coming out now?” Bickel asked Fletcher. “And I’m EB. I’m the guy that’s been killing you on Twitter for the last 24 hours, London. I think that if you have a problem with Jim Haslett, and he should be replaced, that’s fine; I don’t think you’d find five people that would disagree with you. But you went to war with that guy for four years, he protected you when your play fell off, and you have been chomping at the bit to take this guy down ever since you hung it up.

“I honestly believe you’ve completely changed my opinion of you, London. As a person, I think you have no class, I think you’re a phony, and I think you’re a backstabber. I’m just completely put off by the way you have attacked Jim Haslett, personally.”

In response, Fletcher prefaced, “I can appreciate your opinion of me as whatever.”

“People are gonna feel however they feel about my statements,” he said. “For four years, I supported him, personally, inside the building and outside the building, unlike him, with all the players — whether it’s players, coaches — when he hasn’t done the same thing. And people who know, they all agree with me. So you can feel however you want to feel about what I said, but one thing you can’t do is say it’s not true. And he can’t say it’s not true.”

“Yeah, but can’t you …” Bickel jumped in. “Go ahead, London. I want you to finish.”

“Yeah,” Fletcher said. “So, it just came to a point where I was watching that Colts game, and continued to see guys running wide open. There was, what? Four or five times where there was nobody in the vicinity of a receiver, play after play. And you continue to hear the same stuff over and over again. One minute it’s the change to a 3-4 defense; next minute, it’s salary cap; next minute, it’s injuries; next minute, it’s Mike Shanahan; next minute, this. At what point in time do you say, ‘You know what? It’s me. I need to do better.’

Of players drafted by the Redskins on the suggestion of Haslett, Fletcher said, “One minute he’s their guy, next minute he’s bashing them behind closed doors.”

At one point in the interview, Fletcher was asked why even would have bothered re-signing with the Redskins in 2012 if he knew it meant playing for an incompetent coach. “I really thought hard about it, but then they paid me $11 million,” he said, before clarifying he was joking.

“Did you treat him with this same lack of respect in the building for four years?” Bickel would ask.

“No, I treated him with respect,” Fletcher said. “I wish he would have showed the same respect to everybody else.”

“So why change now?” Bickle asked.

“What I’m doing is speaking up for all the players and the coaches that he’s [disrespected] for the last 20 years,” Fletcher said.

“So what you’re saying is the Jim Haslett that steps to the podium is a way different Jim Haslett that walks around the offices of FedEx [Field] and Redskins Park?” John Auville said.

“Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes,” Fletcher repeated over and over. “Yes. Yes. Yes.”

“I’d say the London Fletcher that steps to the podium is a way different London Fletcher, too,” Bickel said.

It was a contentious interview which lasted nearly 20 minutes. You can listen in full below.

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