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  1. https://www.audacy.com/thefandc/sports/washington-commanders/commanders-unable-to-produce-evidence-of-their-popularity

     

    Commanders were unable to produce evidence of their popularity in stadium talks

    The Washington Commanders are losing support, from fans and politicians, as they look to chart out the destination of their next stadium.

    That's according to one Virginia state senator, Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax), who has withdrawn his support for a bill that would help finance a new stadium in the commonwealth.

    One of Petersen's primary concerns is that the team is trending downward in popularity in the region, something that makes him worry about the long-term viability as a whole when considering whether taxpayers should be making a long-term investment by funding a stadium.

     

    In an interview with 106.7 The Fan's Brian Mitchell and JP Finlay, Petersen divulged that the Commanders were unable to produce objective metrics proving their popularity in the area, furthering his skepticism about the team's apparent dwindling fan engagement.

    Essentially, if Petersen — a former Washington Redskins season-ticket holder — was seeing fans wearing Commanders gear in public regularly, he could live with the lack of metrics proving the team's popularity footprint. But he's seeing neither the numbers proving their popularity nor that real-world engagement, a double red flag, in his view.

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  2. 4 hours ago, Est.1974 said:

    Clearly not from the area, but my guess would be that a stadium build project would include significant investment in surrounding infrastructure and transportation links.

    Born and raised in Gaithersburg, MD. Lived in the area my whole life. The “significant investment” in infrastructure needed for this to work is in the billions and VA already said they are looking to spend no more than $350 million 

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  3. Is there a team that hates its fans more than the Commanders? Terrible site. No metro or public transportation access of any sort. Perhaps the worst traffic in the region. This is all but ceding MD fans to the Ravens.

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  4. 13 minutes ago, actorguy1 said:

    Keim Podcast Nuggets:

     

    -Possible reason for releasing Matt I- He and some of the other linemen fought against the style coaching from  Coach Mills and they wanted to break up that group and get some new faces in that would listen to Mills teaching style. The team was surprised by his agent's reaction.

     

    -Flowers probably overvalued himself.

     

    - it won't take very much for Wentz to outplay his quarterback predecessors and maybe that relieves a little bit of pressure on him that he would have had in any Indianapolis. It was also cool for Young to reach out to him.

     

    -As far as FA, hey, will try to bring in some defensive lineman depth.

     

    -At linebacker they are interested in some players, but Bobby Wagner is out there price range. Some really good inside linebackers in this year's draft and they could really get a good starter from that. They would like to pair three young linebackers together and have them all grow together. 

     

    -They would also like to fill the buffalo nickel position but as far as the Honey Badger he is too small. That player needs to be able to play linebacker and safety. He's too small to play linebacker. Again, there are players in a draft that could possibly fill that role or if they get a speedy enough linebacker, they might not need to use that position very much

    This reads like ideally they would want to get Hamilton in the 1st round and perhaps a LB like Harris or Muma in the 2nd.

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