The blowback to some in the NFL and NFL media who spoke insensitively of Dwayne Haskins Jr. in the wake of his death has been overwhelming.

Adam Schefter, while reporting the news of Haskins's death, tweeted that the 24-year-old had struggled in his brief time with the Washington Commanders. Meanwhile, Gil Brandt found himself in hot water for implying that Haskins should've played another season at Ohio State so that he wouldn't have ended up dying.

On The Team 980 in D.C., host Reese Waters asked his listeners for their reactions to what was said and tweeted. Dwayne Haskins played high school football in Potomac, Maryland, a D.C. suburb.

"You don't know the person until something happens, and his real friends come out," one caller said talking about how some of the negativity has risen to the top. He summed up his thoughts on the Gil Brandt comments pretty clearly.

"All he showed was he was a bigot," he said. "I heard what he said. That's bigot talk."

Waters then took another call who said what Brandt can do with his comments.

"Gil Brandt can kiss my ass, and everybody that thinks like him," he said. He went on to say that with so much of an NFL player's legal troubles always in the headlines, Haskins kept his nose clean. The caller said he knew some of Haskins's high school coaches who spoke highly of his character.

"He wasn't out there getting locked up. He wasn't out there beating women," he said. "Youngin was a young man having fun with life...You're going to have a lot of haters come out the woodwork to poke and prod and hate on a youngin."

Reese Waters, after that call, opened it up to more reaction but offered this question about Black NFL players.

"Why is it that if you don't have success at the highest level, then all of a sudden you're fair game for us to call you everything but a child of God despite all the things you may have accomplished in your life on and off the field?" he asked.