Gurgeh

I don't think either side (the players and the coach) are helping the other, but I would say that if some of the calls look odd to us, then they will definitely look odd to the players. Now if the calls were working that wouldn't be a problem, but in general they aren't and that is going to make the players mistrust the calls. Doing something that you don't believe will work is never going to be a recipe for success.

There's a difference between having an agenda and having evidence. If a newspaper has evidence of foul play then they either suppress it or publish it, based on their "agenda" i.e. the wishes of whoever owns the paper. In either case, the evidence still exists. The agenda just determines whether you get to hear about it now, or years later. Now if you say papers either distort facts or just make stuff up to suit their agenda, then that happens a lot too. But if you're trying to say *in this case* that the Post is making stuff up then there's a lot of explaining to do about the statements of dozens of witnesses, the physical existence of a video, and several people coincidentally losing their jobs or quitting when the stories started to be published. You're free to choose not to believe any of it just like you're free to decide that grass isn't green, the sky isn't blue and up is in fact down, no matter what people with a gravitational agenda tell you.

I would think that whoever took those videos without consent would be committing some sort of crime?

What does a billionaire have to do before they are held accountable?

It reads like they made complaints but they were ignored, and the HR was pointless because of the toxic culture. Are the NDAs that these ex-employees all seem to be under usual practice, or are they related to making sure these allegations didn't come out?

I guess it could it be some kind of gambling thing, like winning a bet on how many penalties were given in the first quarter. Incredibly stupid if that's the case.

A common trait amongst successful businessmen is that they assume that level of success will translate into any venture they undertake. "I made billions in trading frozen concentrated orange juice, therefore I will be the most successful NFL owner in history." When it doesn't work out, these people take it personally, even though they rarely accept the majority of the blame themselves. This about Snyder's ego, not the team. He would like to be successful and loved, he would be comfortable with being successful but hated, but what he can't abide is being a complete failure as an NFL owner. The easiest route for success has always been for him to step back and stay back, but that misses the entire point of him buying the team. So my best guess is right now he feels trapped. He can't walk away without being branded a failure, but he can't figure out how to be successful and get most of the credit. He's being forced to change the name, the press coverage remains unremittingly hostile, and the fans are staying away. And yet, there's a voice in his head telling him "Just one more year, Dan, and you'll turn it all around."