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  1. profusion
    That's a very good question, and I don't pretend to know for sure. He was going to sell anyway, wasn't he? I think if he'd dug his heels, the owners wouldn't have taken action against him. It's possible that the NFL is scared of more and worse coming out if they go after Dan, thus making it into a bigger problem affecting other owners.
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    For the owners to be spurred into doing something about Snyder, this has to stop being a big WFT story and start being a big NFL story. That hasn't happened yet. It's big news here, but not nationwide. There've been stories, but it hasn't gotten long-term traction. The other owners don't really care whether Washington has a competent football team, or even an ethically run one. They just want to avoid trouble for themselves.
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    Why would you expect boos in a Cowboys crowd?
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    Cowboys are bad. If WFT was playing a good team, they'd be behind 40-0.
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    That was a hell of a grind-it-out effort on the road. A lot of injuries coming in, and I noticed the difference in the offense as soon as Thomas was injured.
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    Griffin's accusation is just so essentially WFT. It's the Washington Football Teamiest it could be. 😄
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    I'm going to have to miss this one, alas. I'm on the road by 5:30am on Tuesday mornings, and MNF is not compatible with that schedule. Go Commander Football Wolves Team!!
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    I grew up in Portland, so I know what you mean. The NFL's notion of TV territories is somewhat odd. I mean, Baltimore and DC are 30 miles apart and yet are separate territories, while San Antonio is five hours from Dallas and yet won't get a team because Jerry Jones considers it his territory. I've read that one of the reasons the NFL isn't hotter on Portland as a prospect is the effect it would have on the Seahawks. I don't know whether that's really true. Portland's not really a football town, and to the extent it is, it's Oregon Ducks first, Seahawks second, and 49ers a distant third. Oregon State's probably in there somewhere, but it mostly only gets supported by alumni. The city could support a team economically, but the overall enthusiasm level isn't there. I think San Diego is now kind of in the same boat as Portland, in that there probably won't be a ton of enthusiasm to spend money to bring another team to town. St. Louis is the most likely relocation target now.
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    San Diego and St. Louis are the big two. Would they blow a bunch of taxpayer dollars to build Dan Snyder a stadium? At the moment, no, but five years from now if and when the current controversies are quieted it might be different. TV territories are the biggest factor. Would adding a city increase the number of people watching the NFL on TV? Milwaukee "belongs" to the Packers. Portland "belongs" to the Seahawks. San Antonio/Austin "belongs" to the Cowboys.
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    There was an argument for it back when the municipalities built the venues on their own, such as RFK and the old Meadowlands. The teams just leased them, and they were multipurpose. It was a public facility. Building a billionaire a custom stadium designed specifically around their own needs, and which they have total control over, is just inexcusable--especially given how often it's been in response to a threat of moving the team. The "jobs" argument has always been laughable. Spending that kind of public money to generate a relative handful of additional jobs is nonsense. If the modern mixed-use development centered around a stadium is economically vital, then private developers and lenders will be lining up with the cash to pay for it. It's pure corruption to have the public pay for it.
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    Well, sure, every politician loves a winner. In the unlikely event that happens, Dan will surely get his stadium. For the foreseeable future, however, Dan is toxic and the team veers between bad and mediocre. The problem for Dan is that he has to come up with a stadium solution sooner than the 2040s, when his reputation could conceivably be repaired enough so that the political class in the DMV would be willing to be seen near him. Remember, too, that the current scandal set around Dan isn't even over yet. It's unlikely we've heard the worst of it. Maybe if the climate around #metoo cools off and the wokesters start getting ignored. Right now, though, any move to even approve a stadium built on Dan's dime will get negative press and protesters etc. I get how the Nationals managed to scratch enough backs in City Hall to make their stadium happen--but the climate around taxpayer funded stadiums has cooled since then, and the Lerners weren't a toxic brand. Do we know how likely it is that Dan could get short-term renewals on the FedEx ground lease? I mean, it is income for PG County with no effort needed, so I can see the politicians approving that.
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    That Cowboys loss was excruciatingly painful and delicious.
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    Politicians wanted their name attached to the Nationals. Not so for Dan Snyder. It might have worked a decade ago, but I think that ship has sailed. He'll have to cobble together a financing package, which will limit his options for the kind of ritzy mixed-use development the NFL and local jurisdictions have been favoring lately. Jerry Jones and Stan Kroenke had a built-in advantage in also being real-estate developers.
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    Money from whom? Taxpayers? I strongly doubt that any DC politician who wants to remain in office is going to agree to use taxpayer funds to build Dan a stadium. If Dan was proposing to build the stadium without taxpayer dollars, that might change the equation.
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    Yep. Dan's brand is toxic, so I don't see governments or financial institutions handing him a bunch of money for a new stadium anytime soon. He's kind of stuck, because he doesn't have the money to fund it himself.
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    I question whether a team president responsible for the business side should be a public face of the franchise, with the blog and Twitter etc. Wright's intentions were good, but being the face of a floundering operation was always a losing proposition. You don't see that elsewhere. The general managers do a lot of talking about the football side, but the guy in charge of admin, marketing, operations, ticket sales, new stadiums etc. generally doesn't.
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    Let's see how Andy Reid blows this one...
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    Bottom line is that they really have to draft a guy. No more leftovers. The issue is whether this organization and this coaching staff can develop a franchise QB from anything less than a once-in-a-generation talent.
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    To paraphrase Spinal Tap: they're not less popular, their appeal is just becoming more selective.
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    I'm expecting a letdown game from both sides, and it'll be ugly all around. CAR - 17 WFT - 9
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    I don't think the club level ever sold well, even in the couple years before Snyder took over, and the garish yellow color of the seats made the emptiness stick out badly on TV. Other stadiums have done something similar with their seating colors, the Superdome among them.
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    If all you needed was the magic QB, then front offices would probably dump players left and right to tank at the right time. Problem is, building a winning FB team is more complicated than that. You can't just rebuild it all overnight once you have the QB, and you risk ruining him if he plays on a really bad team with no weapons and no protection.
  23. profusion
    I'm shocked, but pleased. Solid execution and a ton of heart. Too bad it took this long for these to show up.
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    OMG they converted a third and long.
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    Turnout looks decent. Might be the GOAT's last visit to DC, so understandable.
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