Former Buccaneers DE Simeon Rice ripped into his former head coach Jon Gruden earlier today, even going so far as to call him a “scumbag” while speaking with Pat Kirwan and Tim Ryan on Sirius NFL Radio (H/T to PFT).

Here’s what Rice had to say:

“You get what you deserve. That’s what Jon said. He got it now. Everybody gets what they deserve. . . .”

“You look at what he did when Chris [Simms] damn near died on the field he wanted to release him right when he got injured. I get hurt, my shoulder’s torn off the bone. This dude releases me. You know what I mean? I’m your guy. The list goes on.”

“Keenan McCardell, that situation was a debacle. Keyshawn Johnson, another situation [that] was a debacle. Joey Galloway, which was his man, was in the dog house all year because he got injured, broke his ankle or whatever.”

“Brad Johnson, that situation was bad. Brings Jeff Garcia in here, oh, he’s going to change things. I helped recruit him [and he] released me, kept Jeff and then put him in the dog house. Gets rid of Brian Greise, brings him, starts a controversy. It was chaotic. I’m giving you facts.”

“How I feel personally? I could tell you that, too. I think he’s a scumbag. I think he’s a scumbag personally. That’s when he’s telling you one thing and… You know what he told me? ‘Simeon you’ll be here in the next five years.’ I got injured [and] this man’s never said one word to me. I won a Super Bowl for you. I got 13 sacks, 12, 15 every year for you. I balled. I got injured [and] you let me go like it was nothing.”

Talk about piling on… first it was QB Jeff Garcia, now it’s Rice. Obviously Gruden rubbed a lot of players the wrong way during his time in Tampa Bay, and even though he did win a Super Bowl with the Bucs, it wasn’t enough to endear himself to the Bucs ownership group or to the men he coached on the field.

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