Drama has built between the Las Vegas Raiders organization and star pass rusher Chandler Jones in recent days. And this led to a wild, and often confusing rant from Jones on social media towards numerous members of the Raiders organization on Wednesday night.
Jones has been posting on Instagram in the past few days about his frustrations with the Raiders organization, hinting at frustrations with head coach Josh McDaniels and general manager Dave Ziegler. The posts have since been deleted.
This led to the Raiders ultimately deciding to hold Jones out of practice on Wednesday. McDaniels called the decision a “private” and “personal” manner.
#Raiders coach Josh McDaniels says Chandler Jones is not with the team today and called it a "private" and "personal" manner.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) September 6, 2023
This seems to have frustrated and angered Jones even more, as he took to Instagram to post a number of stories that are strange to say the least.
His first two stories post were religious references, followed by a picture of a woman holding a badge showing she is a part of a CRT team, better known as a Crisis Response Team.
His next post somewhat explained this, as Jones claimed that the Raiders sent this woman to him, and she reportedly told him “You need to come with us. You are in danger.”
Raiders player Chandler Jones is posting some very weird stuff to his Instagram account pic.twitter.com/0AHLeJc3Ym
— Las Vegas Locally 🌴 (@LasVegasLocally) September 7, 2023
He then posted perhaps the most confusing story, as he muttered a message about Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler that was very hard to make out.
https://twitter.com/LasVegasLocally/status/1699633292243599570
Jones continued on with a number of additional strange stories, and even leaked private text messages between McDaniels and himself.
— The Comeback (@thecomeback) September 7, 2023
It’s obviously pure speculation at this point regarding what exactly happened to cause Jones to go on this rant towards his team. Regardless, it may be an uphill battle to repair this relationship and there may be matters more pressing than football for Jones and the Raiders to attend to.
