After missing this past season due to retirement, Channing Crowder would like to return to the NFL - well, with one stipulation.

Crowder is not interested in playing for his former team, the Miami Dolphins.

"I wouldn’t go on a team with (Dolphins general manager) Jeff Ireland. I’m not very confident in him,” the 28-year-old Crowder said. “He doesn’t know what he’s doing in my opinion. He’s real disrespectful, he doesn’t know how to deal with people and the whole Dez Bryant (situation) kind of showed to the world what he’s about, but guys in the building know what he’s really about.”

Crowder's reference to the Bryant situation stemmed from Ireland's pre-draft interview with the wideout in which he asked if the now Dallas Cowboys star's mother was once a prostitute.

"He's not a good person," Crowder said of Ireland. "He has no class, and I wouldn’t choose to go back and play there. And I would have to say it’s the only team I don’t want to play for.”

The third-round selection of the Dolphins in 2005, Channing made a career-high 113 tackles in 2008, but injuries have since hampered his career.

The inside linebacker missed eight games to injury the past two seasons and has recorded 39 and 51 tackles, respectively. He was released by the Dolphins on July 29.