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  1. profusion
    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.
  8. profusion
    Let's see how Andy Reid blows this one...
  9. profusion
    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.
  10. profusion
    To paraphrase Spinal Tap: they're not less popular, their appeal is just becoming more selective.
  11. profusion
    I'm expecting a letdown game from both sides, and it'll be ugly all around. CAR - 17 WFT - 9
  12. profusion
    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.
  14. profusion
    I'm shocked, but pleased. Solid execution and a ton of heart. Too bad it took this long for these to show up.
  15. profusion
    OMG they converted a third and long.
  16. profusion
    Turnout looks decent. Might be the GOAT's last visit to DC, so understandable.
  17. profusion
    Okay, I lied. The house is still messy and I'm going to watch the competitive part of the game. Probably won't last too long...
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    That's what I'm hoping for. Makes you wonder if anyone in operations is off-limits for firing. I don't know if Bruce allowed anyone else to have relationships with the Big Guy; I can see him having been a pretty aggressive gatekeeper.
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    It'll be a bloodbath today. Not that I'll be watching; this house ain't gonna clean itself...
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    One question: what actual business changes have been put in place since Wright was hired? We hear a lot about what he's saying, but he's not the team spokesperson; he's an executive. What's he been executing for the last 1.5 years? The recent announcement about the club/dream seats is the only real change to operations I recall, but maybe I don't pay enough attention. The name change has been a fiasco, so far, though the initial steps were done hurriedly; I assume that was Dan trying to shift the conversation away from cheerleader videos. Lafemina was actually trying to change the way the team operated, where Wright doesn't seem to be changing much that's visible from the outside. Given the apparent culture in the operations side, it needed a housecleaning, but it's tough to say how much real authority Wright has...or maybe it isn't.
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    RIP. I got to listen to Sonny, Sam and Frank in their last really good years as a team in the early '90s. They were a highlight of being a Skins fan, and a LOT of people chose to listen to them rather than to the TV broadcast crew (unless it was Madden/Summerall, maybe). Huff was hilarious, and you always felt like he was ready to strap on a helmet and get out there and hit someone at a moment's notice, especially when he got excited about what the defense was doing. My parents remembered his playing days, and my dad got a chuckle when he learned that Huff was a color commentator (we didn't live in DC).
  22. profusion
    There are no coincidences in Ashburn. As for the suit, perhaps the NFL is so confident about it because they know that it was Snyder and his cronies who leaked the emails, not the league office.
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    The only way Snyder gets a move is if some city is desperate enough for an NFL team, any NFL team. That wouldn't happen if the league expanded. St. Louis and San Diego are the two main move candidates out there, and it's not like they've never heard about Snyder.
  24. profusion
    In 2020, he was probably banking on the combo of a popular new HC, a diverse FO, the "excitement" of a rebrand, and an emerging young QB to take the heat off of him, sort of like the way RG3 did briefly in 2012. Beyond Haskins turning into a sad joke, I think Dan underestimated how badly things have gone downhill with the fanbase since 2012. Back then there was still a reservoir of goodwill that could be drawn upon if a sign of hope showed up; people wanted to believe. In 2021, I really don't think that many people care anymore. Even the playoff year last year didn't generate that much buzz locally. Dan has completely lost what used to be one of the best fanbases in all of sports. This isn't like the other low-attendance cities. It's really quite an accomplishment, albeit a hugely negative one. Unless he's content sitting in an empty forlorn stadium for the next three decades, his choices are to sell or move. He's done here.
  25. profusion
    HIs job is to eat ****, and he's eating plenty of **** lately. He can't depart from the company line if he wants to keep his job. He's also completely new to sports administration and probably should have started at a lower level of management in a non-toxic organization if he wanted to make this his career. Say what you will about Bruce Allen, he'd been around the block many times and quickly figured out how to "succeed" with the Redskins--become Dan's fake friend and drinking buddy, telling him what he wants to hear. The guy lasted a decade with the team despite mostly abysmal results on and off the field.
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