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    Dumfries? Might just as well go all in and move 'em to Richmond if they're going to head that direction. I think even the Sterling location is too far out, and that's approximately where I live. There's a reason why exurban football stadiums aren't on the agenda anywhere else, and leave it to dummy Dan to end up with one for his zombie franchise. edit: I hadn't seen the post above while I was writing this. Apparently I'm not the only one thinking this way!
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    My first favorite Redskin, too, when I was a little kid. RIP.
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    This is the toughest spot that Dan has been in since he bought the team. If he isn't forced out now, then sad to say he's probably not going anywhere.
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    They way you look at the Mary Jo White hiring depends on what you think the NFL is trying to do. Florio's impression that she will side with the league, if true, means that she'd be the hatchet person if the league is trying to ditch him, but also that she'd put her signature on a whitewash if not. Interesting times.
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    Maybe they'll sell PSLs to Eagles and Giants fans. This entire talk of a shiny new stadium for a team that barely draws 20,000 of its own fans to the stadium is a little absurd. I know they need a place to go after the FedEx lease expires, but a lot of this feels like "build it and they'll show up" wishful thinking. Now, if Dan goes away, we're in a different situation.
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    I'm not ready to get my hopes up yet.
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    I've never understood how Ted can be such a good owner of the Caps and such a bad owner of the Wiz. Undoubtedly a better human being than Dan, but that's a low bar!
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    The committee composition and chairs will change. It's less likely they'll vote to take action next year. I don't think that's an unreasonable prediction.
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    My sense is that it all hinges on Jerry Jones, who has an outsized influence. If Dan loses Jerry, then it'll be over. For most owners, I think the NFL is a combination of a neat toy for billionaires and a steadily appreciating asset. It's an actual business venture for Jerry, who makes money off of it with his stadium construction business, for example. He seems to be driving most of the league's decisionmaking. If Jerry thinks that Dan needs to go, then he'll go.
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    It's long been believed that all the US sports leagues show fake revenue data to their unions during bargaining.
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    We can look closer to home than that for an example. Dan Snyder owns the Redskins precisely because the NFL rejected Howard Milstein's bid as being over-leveraged. Snyder had been a minority partner in John Cooke's unsuccessful bid but then swooped in with his own bidding group once Milstein was turned down. I remember everyone thinking until after the 1999 season, "thank goodness we got a real fan as an owner and not some disconnected New York guy!" We never know what we don't know, I guess...
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    "I'm going to hire people to investigate me." Just when you think Dan Snyder's world can't get more ridiculous, he finds new levels.
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    I-95 South to Woodbridge is already a parking lot even on weekends. Putting the stadium there would make the trip to FedEx look like easy street. Plus, it's going to be harder to make that site into a "destination" outside of gameday. A lot more money floating around Loudoun County and western Fairfax that would probably support a nearby shopping/entertainment complex surrounding the stadium.
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    Everyone in Virginia should oppose this. I won't discuss the politics of it here, but governments handing taxpayer dollars to billionaires shouldn't be on any politician's agenda. What I've noticed is that places like Los Angeles refuse to pay and the stadium gets built anyway. It's the "palookavilles" out there that pay billionaires to bring their team to town. The DC region is not a palookaville. We are a wealthy, high-population area that teams should be fighting each other to get access to. If Snyder insists on public subsidy and wants to take his clownshow to St. Louis or London, more power to him.
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    You'd think that Goodell and the other owners would be sick of being Snyder's pooper scoopers, but they've been doing it for years and will probably continue.
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    This is the key, right here. At this point, hiring Ron is the one significant thing that Snyder can point to in order to say that things have changed. He needs Ron. While the stadiums negotiations are underway, I wouldn't expect any major changes.
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    Heck, let's talk about the Packers and Steelers. The Packers have had LITERALLY 30 years of uninterrupted HOF quarterback play and only two SB wins to show for it. The Steelers have had nearly 20 straight years of HOF QB play and two SB wins in that time. Both teams managed to surround their HOF QBs with at least decent talent most of those years, though we can quibble about the details here and there. That doesn't mean those franchises are bad. It means that winning SBs is really hard. Both teams have been perennial contenders and almost always in the discussion. In comparison, let's look at the Lions. They did get their franchise QB, who is playing in the SB this month...for the Rams. I see that as perhaps the closest situation to the Redskins. The Ford family is nowhere near as toxic personally as Dan Snyder, and yet their collective ineptitude stretches back to the 1960s. How can you have Matthew Stafford throwing to Calvin Johnson and get nothing out of it but misery??? That's the company that Snyder keeps.
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    And Carson Palmer before that. Maybe we have to take the Bengals out of the conversation. They're not at the Patriots/Packers/Steelers/Ravens level, but neither are they down there with the Redskins, Jaguars, Jets and Lions as the scunge at the bottom of the NFL trash can over the last 20 years. It makes me sad that the organization I grew up rooting for devolved into that. I don't see a way out as long as Snyder owns the team. He's the problem. Keim is a "glass half full" kind of guy who is going to say that finding the right QB can overcome all that. The weight of Snyder's history says otherwise.
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    Racism is the third rail of American social life right now in a way that sexism isn't. Companies are falling all over themselves to show that they are "diverse" and to disassociate themselves from speech or behavior that could even be remotely considered racist. In that environment, the league will do whatever it takes to pretend they are "enlightened"--or use it as a tool to settle scores, as they did with Mark Davis and Jon Gruden. It's kind of interesting to me that we haven't heard any real allegations to that effect about Snyder or the Redskins. However, if you listen through to the Congressional roundtable this week, one of the women said that one of her harassers used a Jewish slur aimed at gentile women--she didn't get more specific. In my experience, the good ol' boys who will treat women like garbage also tend to use racial language that is way beyond the pale today. It's part of a larger mindset. Maybe it didn't happen at Redskins Park. Even if it did, it would take someone coming forward to make anything of it.
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    Mike Brown will mess this up. Book it. The Bengals will be back to a laughingstock in a couple years. I was talking about sustained success, not a one- or two-year flash in the pan. Maybe I'm just aiming higher?
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    I'm not disagreeing with you here, or really even Keim, I suppose. Aaron Rodgers or Russell Wilson would turn the Redskins (I will never call them "Commanders") into a 10-win team next year. If they lucked out on a draft pick QB this spring and were able to develop him, the same might happen in 2023 or '24. The problems are that (a) neither event will transpire, and (b) the groundwork for those things to turn into sustained success isn't in place and won't be under Snyder. The "magical" part in my statement is thinking that a top-shelf QB will ever be playing for Dan Snyder. It hasn't happened yet, and I have no reason to think that Ron Rivera's presence alone is enough to make it happen against the weight of everything else. Snyder is the Donald Sterling of the NFL, and a couple random playoff appearances over the years shouldn't fool anyone into thinking the impossible is possible.
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    I was just giving this some serious thought--instead of doing something more useful--and here's how I see the bottom line. Keim is wrong about a magical QB fix for the Snyder problem. Sure, maybe that works for a year or two, but if you want an annual contender, a team you can enjoy rooting for year after year, you need an organization that does things the right way consistently. We have 22 years of evidence showing that will never happen under Dan Snyder. It won't. Now, about getting rid of him. There's no government solution for this, nor should we hope that the NFL will do the right thing for its own sake. It's solely about the money. What we all want is the "Donald Sterling solution." Look at that situation, though. The NBA owners knew for decades that he was a piece of garbage and a terrible owner yet did nothing about it despite him hogging valuable market share in L.A. Once he put their sponsorships and the core business at risk, he was gone within a week or two. That's the key. As long as it's just a bunch of us Redskins diehards and the occasional ambitious Washington Post reporter on the case, nothing will happen. Nothing. If it ever gets to the point where Anheuser-Busch and Ford Motor Co. go to Goodell or the networks and say "Y'know, we really don't want to be associated with an organization that includes Dan Snyder anymore--he's putting our reputations at risk", that little SOB will be gone tomorrow. If he threatens nuclear lawfare, they'll ruin him--his children will be working at the grocery store in 20 years. It's not just the owners, but associated businesses many times the size of the NFL that rely on the league for advertising and promotion. They won't let that little jerk put a kink in the money flow. So, the question becomes how we get that. That, I don't have the answer to. I suspect it involves credible allegations of racism, which we haven't seen yet.
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    There are limits to what Congress can do. They are a legislative body, not a law enforcement agency. Yes, they can subpoena documents, but if someone ignores their subpoena, their only recourse is to refer to the DOJ for prosecution for contempt of Congress. The NFL (probably rightly) believes that the DOJ will never go after a large collection of billionaires. Heck, most of Congress probably won't either.
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    Women are generally more socially aware than men, and also more practical. I'm guessing she knew what she was getting into almost from day one. Whatever else Dan was when she met him, he was a multi-millionaire. I'm not saying she's a bad person (don't know enough to know), but I doubt she's been laboring under any illusions about him all these years.
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    Coverups of this magnitude rarely work. The information is going to get out there one way or another. What the NFL's actions do is ensure that it does so in a painful slow-drip fashion. Congress can't do anything. Pressure from sponsors and the networks could, but it's going to take something bigger and splashier than what's out there now to make that happen. It may be that the slow-drip strategy ensures that there's never critical mass to the story to get those stakeholders to demand change. Once enough of the story comes out, it'll be "old news," with the media machine having moved on.
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