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  1. 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).
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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    Lesson to other budding executives: if the NFL recommends you for the WFT job, run the other way as fast as you can. At some point, the owners are going to realize that they need to take out the Fredo in their midst, but apparently that lesson is slow to sink in. It'll probably take a lot more league-wide damage to make it happen.
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    It bears repeating: the SB-winning franchise QBs in this century all came into situations where the team was already good or at least on the way and well-managed. Churning through 1st round QBs until we find "the one" would turn us into the Jets, basically. None of this matters until the team is a solid organization capable of fielding a respectable team from top to bottom. As long as Snyder's in the picture, it's unlikely that'll happen. I'm less worried about the "who" and more interested in the "how"--how is the team analyzing/rating QB prospects, how they developing their guy, and how they are building a team to put around that young man.
  12. profusion
    Wow, Stafford's really lighting it up. For the Titans.
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    My sense is that Dan is more concerned about the public perception of the coaching than about the actual coaching. At this point, though, if Dan isn't aware of the 100% negative perception of him and his franchise, then I question whether he's attuned to attitudes about Ron.
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    Just skimmed the long ESPN article about Robert Sarver and the Suns. Lots of similarities, including an abyssmal record on the court for all of Sarver's tenure except the last couple years. Of course, people are accusing Sarver himself of bad stuff, where Snyder seems better at shielding himself from most of it and having underlings take the fall. I'm continually amazed at what a slippery little weasel Snyder is.
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    Don't underestimate coaches' egos. Dan seems good at playing up to that Ron will most likely quit, anyway. He seems half checked-out already.
  16. profusion
    That was just the pure essence of Kirk Cousins.
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    Oh, I guarantee they'll play like first-round picks if they ever move on from Ashburn. Meanwhile, we'd get a guy who'll end up in jail or some such.
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    Watson has a no-trade clause. Not a chance he waives it to join this disaster.
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    Most likely, but this seems like the moment for something to happen if it's possible.
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    They can issue subpoenas. Goodell or one of his flunkies will undoubtedly come before Congress to testify and spout a bunch of nothing without need for a subpoena. Congress can also subpoena the documents, and that's where the action could get interesting. I'm sure that the NFL is applying high-level pressure to congressional leaders to prevent this from happening. The owners are a bunch of rich, powerful people and know a whole bunch of other rich, powerful people. They can apply levers unavailable to you and me. The two congresspeople leading this are backbenchers who don't have a lot of influence but undoubtedly have things they want in appropriations bills and whatnot, not to mention campaign contributions.
  21. profusion
    Whether or not there was a formal "report", Wilkinson's firm undoubtedly produced memos and such for internal use. They weren't all just talking it out! And yes, the "oral report" would be highly unorthodox in any legal-oriented context. Of course, courts can order things to be kept under seal and not publicly disclosed, but having an attorney not provide a written work product to their client is not only odd, but makes it appear that there never really was an investigation to begin with.
  22. profusion
    I wanted to highlight this, because I think you may have hit the nail on the head. Think about it, too, that the WFT emails are only part of the potentially leakable info. The St. Louis lawsuit involves high-level league correspondence in terms of who decided what. That might potentially be a bigger headache than whatever Bruce and his correspondents chatted about, because owners could be directly involved. Where the league is fooling itself is in thinking that this info can be contained forever.
  23. profusion
    For the first decade, the Dan supporters were saying "he's young and learning, give him time." Well, it's been 21 years now. I think he's exactly what he's ever going to be. And that ain't much.
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    Apart from Dan, it's largely a generational thing. 50 years ago, you didn't use the first name of someone you didn't know very well. It was considered overly familiar and disrespectful. That's probably where Darrell Green is coming from with that, as he seems like a pretty formal guy. With Dan, it's just ego and power.
  25. profusion
    More likely, they didn't really care what anyone thought, since they hold the entirely plausible belief that they'll never be held accountable. Everyone with a stake in this makes far too much money off the league to want to blow things up until they're forced to. This was simply the blandest and easiest explanation they could come up with. They don't really care whether you believe it.
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