Ghost of

3 hours ago, Skinsinparadise said:

 

The charity stuff is just another layer.  As a business owner, he's also known to be cheap.  

 

Don't know if he's a good or bad person.  But i do know plenty who know him, talking on CNBC and other business shows, that as a boss say he often is a total A-hole, that's a pretty commonly known thing about him.   Short termpered and berates employees often. 

 

The impression I've gotten reading about Bezos over the years is he's not the nicest guy and he thinks he's smarter than everyone else.   lol, the good thing here is maybe he is indeed smarter than everyone else. 

 

I can't take the he's not a nice guy component to him as long as he is as smart as some say he is.

 

As an owner, to me my guess is what plays out is 

 

A.  He thinks he's smarter than the typical NFL owner and will be very hands on to show he can conquer football like everything else.

 

He said he had notes for the Amazon Rings of Power producers and writers and they ignored them.  Maybe that's too bad because that show sucked. I'd say he would likely try to hire the best people or those who will carry out his vision the best (which may not be great) and let them go at it, if Amazon Prime Video is any indication.

15 minutes ago, skinzplay said:

Wright gets neither s pass nor sympathy from me. He is complicit in all of this bull crap, including every letter, comma and semi-colon in these Iraqi Information Minister statements this dysfunctional FO puts out. He is what I said he was from the beginning. He tells Snyder whatever he wants to hear, but in the presence of others, speaks about how hamstrung he has been in Ashburn. Not a shred of integrity or leadership. That clean-up statement - almost as bad, but equally tone deaf as the first one - only came after the league phoned directly and asked for clarification.

Indeed. Maybe he even did think at first he'd be given the power he needed to get things done. But from the name change process, the management of leaks, lying about fan input and just some of his statements that suggest he is 1) not as talented as his recommendations suggest and 2) he is happy to collect a check and just cover his own ass as much as possible. Especially when it'll be his word against Snyder's anyway after all this is said and done.

RIP Dave. 

One of the best and very underrated. 

6 hours ago, FootballZombie said:

 

If I end up in the hospital I want everyone here to know its because you bozos keep sending blood away from my brain to congregate in another area.

There's been a lot of curious imagery and metaphors being thrown around the last couple of days.

22 minutes ago, Forehead said:

So, my wife watches a whole lot of Lifetime, TLC, trashy rom/coms with ridiculous plots, etc.  I can't help but imagine this playing out one way.

 

Rich, single, multi-billionaire playboy who is at least six feet tall with rippling abs has been secretly buying up all the minority stakes in the team, but it isn't enough.  A chance meeting at a (charity fundraiser/political dinner) is where he meets Tanya Snyder.  She is smitten, but he is distant as he has plowed through 100 women in search of something that will rekindle a fire inside that he hasn't known for years.  But there's something about her...

 

Another chance meeting, then another.

 

Finally, after 90 tv minutes of angst, they consummate with fiery passion. 

 

You can't help but imagine this? 

Interesting.  

8 hours ago, ThePackisback said:

I just wanted to say congratulations to you guys on the win. Tough loss once again, season is over for us. I’m all about good sportsmanship so hats off to you guys. We’re heading for last place and 5 wins at best. I wish you guys the best the rest of the season, your back in the thick of things.

You were like 15 when you joined right? How old are you now? 

Snyder is like Gollum and I don't mean it in a cheap laugh sense.  I mean in the spiritual and religious sense he looks like he is burdened and degraded by his sin. If he could but shed his identity as owner, give up his Precious, maybe there'd even be hope for his soul. 

It's already gone. I'm here for the atmosphere and the attitude.

I think personal and social things destroyed it, I got too busy and I also despised Jay Gruden and his forever-tenure was where I truly came to grasp the futility.

I saw this report then had to backtrack through this thread.

Just like when I found out Trent Williams stuff.  

Does ES realize reddit has thriving communities that don't constrain conversations to gigantic omni-threads? It's not 2013 anymore its ok to have a little clutter. For some thread titles are how they find out the news.  

13 minutes ago, goskins10 said:

Not sure why you all do not like those unis. I like the all black uniforms. In fairness I went to Purdue and we had all blacks and I liked them then too. 

 

Purdue's helmet, font and colors are superior to the Commanderps.

In other news I had flashbacks to the Dallas vs. Miami playoff game in Any Given Sunday.  Washington even has the W where they had that Illuminati freemason logo on the Dallas knights helmet.

1 hour ago, Conn said:

people have begun saying this almost as a disclaimer. But why do you think Rivera is a good coach? Honest question, if you had to break it down, why do you think you think that? That was also my impression when he got here despite all the losing he’d done, but I feel awake now.
 

It's hilarious to see the public perception of Snyder as impatient and trigger happy. But in reality he is patient to his detriment. 

If anything he was too early with his approach because now he's stuck with Rivera and Gruden for too long and never made the intelligent Shanahan, Jr. or McVay hire.

He just can't seem to change course fast anymore when the rest of the league has actually adopted his early method.  You don't need 5 years to build a winner in this league and you haven't in decades.  

On 9/8/2022 at 2:56 PM, ColonialWBSkinsFan said:

 

The switched-at-birth fourth member of 90's douchebag boy-band Hanson

 

 

Gotta admit, I've never seen anyone call Hanson, the singers of MMMbop, "douchebags." You sure you weren't thinking of another boy band? 

1 hour ago, Skinsinparadise said:

 

 

The way she laughs in the first couple of seconds reminds me of Russell Wilson's ex-wife on his draft day.

22 hours ago, Always A Commander Never A Captain said:

Keep in mind national media (ESPN especially) have generally been doing fluff pieces and brushing aside all allegations regarding Deshaun Watson.

 

Sometimes narratives done by national media are worth less than the time spent reading it.

 

National media dissing Wentz, which all local media seem confused about should be a telling sign that national media is just saying stuff to say stuff.  It doesn't matter.

Oh, there's a reason they say stuff and it's not just to say stuff, don't get it twisted.

I recall him playing piano in a human interest piece on him.  He was definitely fun to watch run the ball for awhile. 38 is too young no matter the cause.

I didn't remember or didn't know that Domonique Barber, from Texans, was his brother. Or that all three of the Barber brothers played at Minnesota. 

On 5/26/2022 at 9:32 AM, FLSkinz83 said:

I'm amazed at how Jack Del Rio says nothing in his press conferences, but can't wait to make comments on twitter.

The guy clearly reads ES (and my posts specifically) seeing how he tweeted "deez" at someone. That's my move,  Jack. 

1 hour ago, Koolblue13 said:

Rypien kinda sucked until Gibbs told him to just start winging the ball as deep as he can and let the WRs go get it. Pretty much what I think is about to happen with Wentz.

Rypien was one of those developmental guys the NFL used to have, he was on the 1987 SB roster. He was not great in 1988 in his starts but showed some talent. In 1989 he showed he was starter material but he was prone to dumb mistakes but threw for 3,700 yards (when that meant something) and had a 9-5 record. In 1990, the Skins made the playoffs and beat the Eagles with Rypien. But again, he had some baffling turnovers (including fumbles) against San Francisco.

Then 1991. But yes, he had a very brief peak but he was not a bad QB at all during that time.

59 minutes ago, Voice_of_Reason said:

As far as Ryan vs. Wentz, I've always liked Ryan, going back to his Boston College days.  He's been mostly clutch, and if his idiot HC and OC hadn't completely screwed up the end of the SB, he'd have a SB ring.  (He had a hand it in too, but Quinn and Kyle share 97.6387% of the blame on that complete meltdown.)

 

If you put a gun to my head and said, "in a vacuum, which would you prefer as a 1 year stop gap for 2022" I'd say Ryan.  

 

The problem is, the Commanders don't NEED a 1 year stop gap.  Or a 2 year stop gap.  They need to take chances to end this QB carousel for at least 5-7 years.  We've been looking for a franchise QB since 1986, and Joey T. was even on the decline when LT broke his leg.  We've had a couple of oases with the potential of Trent Green (but he wasn't retained because there wasn't an owner), Brad Johnson, Griffin for a hot second, and Cousins.  But we've been searching for so long.  

 

Mark Rypien says hello. Yes, his peak was brief and he made some boneheaded errors before the great 91 year but he was the closest we had, since...you know, we won a SB. In another era of playoffs we'd have gone from 89 through 92.

17 hours ago, Idaho fan said:

Makes sense why he was walking to get gas... as much as any of this actually makes any sense being that it was a senseless tragedy.  As others here have said it is very fortunate he didn't kill someone else along with himself and the girl in his car. .20 or .24 whichever it was is drunk drunk waisted.  Not trying to be disrespectful of the deceased here but Haskins was a very immature individual right up to his demise unfortunately.  

I know people will say "time and place" but Gil Brandt looking downright perspicacious now.

Such a shame he went from predicting he'd star at Ohio State as a kid at a summer football camp there to making such terrible decisions that would wreck his dreams. 

So, they slow-walked this to avoid the more intense reputation hit because the part about the woman just came from Slater initially and nowhere else. And even someone drunk who just got off the phone with their wife wouldn't have needed to "look" for gas, they would have called someone or had their wife call. As I said about Lance Briggs---this reminded me of that except instead of just leaving the car he was killed looking for gas. He was looking for gas instead of something else because he knew if he called police he'd be arrested and attention would be on the woman in the car. Getting a DUI could have interfered with his attempt to stay on an NFL roster.

Instead of taking a reputation hit and getting a DUI, he's dead now.

14 hours ago, Burgold said:

Throughout the offseason, Washington has promised to be aggressive and while they were aggressive going after the QB almost every other act was to wait and see what others teams were doing and MAYBE offering to match. As for pursuing free agents to fill holes, the team has been remarkably patient. Now, while Wentz did eat up a ton of cap we know better than most how cash cures cap so the question becomes... Does Snyder have the cash to cure the cap? We know a bunch of his businesses: Six Flags, Johnny Rockets, etc. have done really poorly. We also know that Snyder is a billionaire on paper. He also just took out a huge loan (with the league's help) to buy out his minority owners. 

 

So, what do you think... Is Snyder broke?

I posted my view that he was cash poor some time back when people thought he might be forced out and to explain some of his behavior.

He's cash poor in comparison to how he used to be for sure. Well that and he went from being a spendthrift on player bonuses to being miserly with everything. 

22 hours ago, HigSkin said:

Speed kills...LOL

Yeah what is Cooper Kupp's 40 time?

Or Jerry Rice.

Receivers that move with the fluidity of an Olave rarely fail to produce as a solid contributor in the league even if they aren't superstars.

3 hours ago, Xameil said:

So...from reading this thread the concept of Rest In Peace means nothing to many of you.

"Rest in peace" has nothing to do with the living but is a benediction issued with the hope that the departed's soul finds eternal peace in the embrace of God Almighty in Heaven. 

We could carry your view to its extreme and not try to figure out homicides (which often have salacious and unfortunate aspects to them), nor would we comment on or write the histories (including the untimely end) of notable personages. Nor would we find our souls stirred when we read about a poor boy who dies on a battlefield far from home in yet another of man's pointless killings and gain any insight into the cost of war. 

If someone used particular language that you take issue with, that's fine. But the concept of being curious about a person's end and circumstances that don't make sense---or that you don't understand that, deep down, people investigate these matters to make sense of, or grapple with, or prevent their own mortality is strange to me. Couldn't be me.

On 4/24/2022 at 12:18 AM, Wildbunny said:

Which situation Bruce Allen hasn't effed? 😂

And who!?