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  1. profusion
    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.
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    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.
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    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.
  10. profusion
    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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    Goodell and Pash probably think they can just make this go away by sending out enough pablum until the news cycle moves on. It'll be up to Congress on how far they want to take this. Of course, Snyder is going to be a continuing problem for the other owners long after this is forgotten, if they let him stick around. He's a liability. I'm sure the news media wants in on the action, but somebody on the inside will have to be willing to feed them more information for that to amount anything.
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    I dunno, it seems kind of on-brand for Danny Boy. As for the Bruce emails supposedly not being part of the Wilkinson investigation, that makes sense if you think about it. Her first priority would have been to interview everyone involved (who was willing to talk) and get the basic story. It was so atrocious that she probably wouldn't have had to go further. This wasn't done in connection with litigation, where you'd have that level of detail, and I doubt her clients (the NFL and Dan himself) wanted her to go fishing in those murky waters. If anyone's corporate emails would have been searched, it would have those of the women involved, in an effort to discredit them. Now, Bruce's emails are VERY pertinent to the litigation he's involved with, all of which also includes Dan. Not hard to connect those dots. The league DID have the Bruce emails eventually, though, since they turned them over to Mark Davis shortly before the story broke. A lot of angles on this one.
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    So, Tanya seems to be down with the damn good culture.
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    He's one of the richest owners (married into Walmart money), so I doubt he's hurting. Someone on Twitter commented that this sort of thing is Kroenke's MO. I remember that he seemed like a real piece of work in the pieces written about him back when the Rams were terrible and when they first moved to L.A., but the Rams' on-field success in recent years has taken the focus away from him. None of this applies to Snyder, per se, but it certainly provides context. The NFL is starting to look like La Cosa Nostra...with Danny Boy playing the role of Fredo, of course.
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    Denver 24 Washington 10 Denver's not very good, but probably good enough to win against this bunch.
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    No more castoffs. Draft a guy and develop him. And somebody please find a way to isolate Dan on draft day.
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    Based on that Seth Wickersham article, the league has a much bigger problem than Snyder when it comes to the St. Louis lawsuit. Jones and Kroenke really effed that one up, and the other owners are paying the price. For those who don't want to read the article, Kroenke is now threatening to stop indemnifying the other owners over their legal fees in the lawsuit (which is against a number of them personally in addition to the league), and apparently some owners are incurring fees in the eight figures over it. John Mara apparently complained that he and others wouldn't have voted for the move if they'd known that Kroenke would bail out on his end of the deal. Real gang of upright citizens, there. As for Snyder, I reiterate that he's a slippery little rodent. Gonna be tough to rid our house of him.
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    Congress can't really do anything on its own against the NFL except pass legislation. Any contempt charges or such would have to be referred to the DOJ. This isn't going to get anywhere near that level. More likely is that the media continues to get its hands on these emails for years to come, whenever it benefits someone with access to them. The information will get out there, eventually. And, of course, all it takes is one disgruntled employee with the requisite access to make it all public. That amazing list of malfeasance in the Damn Snyder twitter thread shows that he's not just another garden-variety jerk. I'm struggling to think of any team owner in any sport who was that bad for that long. Donald Sterling was probably the closest, but I don't think even he managed to be as bad--his biggest sin for most of his tenure was just being really cheap. The situation with Snyder is NOT normal, and the NFL might be advised to start making sure people know that. Right now, it looks like they're trying to protect him as just another average member of the club.
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    As callous as it is to say this, I don't think it's serial sexual harassment or even assault in Ashburn that the NFL is this obviously concerned about. If it was "just" that, then they'd hang Snyder out to dry and be done with it as soon as the news cycle moves on. Whatever it is has to implicate a bunch of powerful people across the league. Now, it could be as simple as more widespread Gruden-type "saying naughty things" stuff that would cause a bunch of cancel culture firings. Maybe the league doesn't want that to happen to that extent or all at once. However, if there's actual malfeasance involved or hinted at, since as cheating, doping, behind-the-scenes manipulation of games, etc., then you can see why the league would be sweating. Since Bruce apparently felt willing to vomit the entire contents of his mind into his email correspondence, one can only guess at what a treasure trove these emails would be for an enterprising (i.e., non-ESPN) reporter.
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