It’s safe to say that Josh Smith won’t be sending Butch Jones a Christmas card anytime soon.

Smith, who was just picked up by the New Orleans Saints as an undrafted free agent, shared his unfiltered opinion on the former Tennessee coach.

Here was what Smith said on The 5Star Preps Podcast:

“Just the surrounding support staff [at Tennessee], it just didn’t feel like family to me,” Smith said. “I’m just gonna be honest. I had multiple meetings with Coach Jones, and he knows how I feel. He was … I just never felt like he was himself. I always felt like he put a front on. I mean, he was in such a hard position that I probably would, too, honestly, so I can’t really say anything too bad about him. I do respect him for all the hard work he put into UT, but I honestly wanted the real him.

“I wanted just to be able to, like, laugh, and, like, have a conversation with him, and I just felt like I couldn’t ever do that, or anybody ever could. It was just always too serious, or we were in trouble. I just never felt like it was a complete family, and I think it’s just such the opposite in the NFL.”

Those are interesting, but not totally surprising comments from Smith. He’s certainly not the first person to suggest that Jones was “putting on a front.”

Smith, who dealt with injuries throughout his career at Tennessee, will turn his focus to trying to make the roster in New Orleans.