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  1. profusion
    A large entertainment business needs to be able to respond effectively almost immediately. Of course, Planet Dan apparently thinks a 1-person HR department is enough, so...
  2. profusion
    That's a good point. Any good corporate lawyer, however, would know that you need the boss to release something, even if it's bland and attorney-vetted. Not saying anything looks worse, and the legal department knows that. The Redskins are not a mom-and-pop business. They have high priced attorneys. The question is whether Snyder listens to them.
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    No, it certainly isn't. In fact, it's a coward's move to put the new guy out there to take the heat. I understand Dan's floating around the ocean somewhere, but a written statement of regular corporate mea culpa stuff could have been prepared in five minutes.
  4. profusion
    I extracted this out of your very thoughtful comment, just because for me it DOESN'T feel different. It's perfectly in line with everything we've known about Dan Snyder since he fired Marty and rehired Vinny. The stink has been apparent for almost 20 years. The only thing that's changed is the weight of the evidence.
  5. profusion
    NDAs are standard in corporate severance agreements. The women likely took some kind of payment to go away and stay quiet. Anybody let go from the Redskins with a severance almost certainly has an NDA.
  6. profusion
    The difference being that this will be somebody Snyder can't fire if he wants to stay in The Club. Somebody mentioned it being a high-profile good guy like Tony Dungy, but I'd expect it'll be a woman. If the NFL is savvy, that is.
  7. profusion
    I'm sure the league counsel's office parachuted some people into Ashburn this week to deal with this. This has been brewing for a while. Given the cheerleader incident and how poor Snyder's reputation is, the league might condition further support on Snyder accepting a league-picked CEO to run the business. They can all make a big show of it. Cripes, Rivera's seemingly the only guy left in the building anyway. You don't want him having to run the marketing department. Regardless, I strongly doubt this will be enough to convince the owners to sacrifice one of their own.
  8. profusion
    This isn't the NCAA. The NFL owners aren't going to unleash that kind of standard. If the Post could have reported that Snyder ordered a cover-up rather than fire the offenders, then we'd be talking a forced sale. As it is, he'll probably weasel his way out of this one.
  9. profusion
    His point is interesting, too. He's saying there was a cover-up of this behavior, which would strongly indicate that Dan knew all along and did nothing about it. As it is, Dan is barely mentioned at all in the article, with the implication being that he was merely ignorant or negligent.
  10. profusion
    The league will do no such thing. Owners don't want to set precedent that could be turned against them next time.
  11. profusion
    The others either are still with the team or signed NDAs, most likely. They could also be with other teams or with media outlets. The sports industry and its media is kind of a "small town" where everyone knows everyone, I'd imagine. I'm too cynical (and too much of a lawyer) to "believe all women"--women are a-holes, too. However, I strongly doubt 15 unconnected women are all lying. I'd be shocked if there wasn't originally more to the story, and I won't even speculate what that might have been. Perhaps the Post felt pressure to "get some story out there immediately" and withheld the more shocking stuff for further development.
  12. profusion
    Do these allegations surprise anyone who's been following the Dan Snyder Football Franchise since 1999? It's completely on-brand. We already knew it was a third-rate brofest. Even their inappropriate pickup lines are lame. I'm waiting to see what some of the reporters who hyped this on Twitter have to say. I can imagine there was going to be more but that the team managed to cut off too many of the Post's sources. If Snyder was an executive, he might be out. No way the NFL will be able to oust an owner over this. It also doesn't seem like enough for the minority owners to all want to suddenly abandon ship.
  13. profusion
    They hired a prominent "damage control" attorney to look into "workplace misconduct." The attorney confirmed it, so it's not just rumor. One doesn't do that unless something bad is about to surface. Doesn't necessarily lead to Snyder being ousted.
  14. profusion
    An alternative is that an overall sale is in the works, forced or otherwise.
  15. profusion
    Mike is a classic example of an alpha male who thought he could control an uncontrollable situation.
  16. profusion
    That's basically what I meant. Mike fits the profile of the obsessed football lifer who spends his Saturday nights designing blocking schemes till 3am. Not someone you envision out on the prowl, as it were. Now Jay, on the other hand...
  17. profusion
    He seems too irascible for the thug life.
  18. profusion
    If other teams were also bribing refs (that's in the same rumor), then Roger Goodell might want to get his own boat safely out there in international waters. 😄
  19. profusion
    The entire thing is just a recap of the last 24 hours on Twitter. I'm waiting to see the report before even thinking about the substance any further. The people who obviously know aren't talking. A bunch of Twitter randos posting rumors isn't credible.
  20. profusion
    The Post and the team have probably been going back and forth on this for at least a week. The bottom line is that few complex stories are ever 100 percent airtight. There are undoubtedly anonymous sources being used, and those sources have to be given the option of backing out. The Post has to find alternate sources if any have backed out. If the story implicates criminal misconduct, the paper has consider the possibility of getting dragged into a criminal investigation and prosecutions. Lots to deal with. Entire legal practices are built around this.
  21. profusion
    In a story with multi-billion dollar ramifications, there's going to be a long process between the Post's lawyers, editors and reporters. And yes, Jeff Bezos and his executive team. Every single word is going to be scrutinized a hundred times. Legal pitfalls mapped. PR strategies developed. Follow-up stories planned. Traditionally, Friday and Saturday were the days to release stories you wanted buried. However, we live in a perpetual news cycle now (especially we're all stuck inside all day), so I'm not sure that applies anymore. The Post could release the story in the afternoon today or tomorrow for huge online impact when the maximum number of people are online. They do risk a leak taking the air out of the balloon, though.
  22. profusion
    The Post would undoubtedly leak that a story is coming, but they wouldn't be the only ones. The reporters all have the same basic pool of sources, and they'll pick up scuttlebutt on what the other media outlets are doing. For non-Post reporters on Twitter, their interest in tweeting this is to essentially get a free ride on the hype. They help build their own brand by getting more Twitter views and followers, not to mention clicks on their own articles. As for the Post, this story verges on a bet-the-company move. Running a story that could cause a man to lose control of a multi-billion dollar business could result in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit if the story is wrong or not sourced firmly enough to be provable. The Post has to balance being first with making sure to get it right. As more of their competitors figure out the details of the story, the Post risks losing control of it, but if the story is complex and involves deep sources it may be difficult for other outlets to put together a lawsuit-proof piece themselves without the weeks or months of effort the Post has undoubtedly put in. With the Twitter hype going stratospheric, I do think there's a risk of the actual story being a letdown. Anything less than Snyder and Jeffrey Epstein running coke and underage girls between the USA and Mexico on Redskins One is going to seem anti-climactic. If I had to guess, it's probably more like Snyder knowing that certain of his underlings were engaged in scandalous and possibly illegal behavior. Now, if someone like Bruce Allen did a document dump at the Post, this might end up being "here's a whole bunch of really bad things you didn't know about Dan Snyder." In that case, he might want to stay out there in international waters for awhile.
  23. profusion
    If there's personal involvement, that's the case. The "institutional control" stuff isn't going to fly if it was just flunkies involved. The other owners aren't going to open themselves up to that standard. If he's not personally implicated, Dan claims shock and sadness, promises change, empanels a reform board, and throws some money to some activists. The memory hole swallows it in a few weeks or as soon as the next target is acquired.
  24. profusion
    The other owners aren't going to open up that Pandora's Box.
  25. profusion
    That wouldn't be enough to force Snyder out unless he was a participant, ala Jerry Richardson. If it's a #metoo thing, I suspect it's very much worse than garden variety sexual harassment.
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