BringMetheHeadofBruceAllen

Probably 'no' would have been a better answer. If anything it clearly shows that Rivera isn't calling the shots on the starting QB.

Nothing surprising to anyone on this board, but it's still worth reading... Under Dan Snyder, Washington sank from NFL elite to also-ran https://www.wgauradio.com/sports/under-dan-snyder/NNT4BSGIOJY2L7QL24MKLXIFN4/ LANDOVER, Md. — (AP) — Super Bowl-winning defensive end Fred Stokes remembers what he heard from other players in 1989 when he left the Los Angeles Rams as a free agent to join the NFL team based in the nation's capital. “When I got here,” Stokes said, “the guys all told me, ‘We’re all about winning.’ Washington and winning went together.” This was back when D.C.'s football franchise was in the midst of making the postseason eight times in 11 years, a run of success that featured four Super Bowl appearances and three championships. Back when sellouts and bouncing stands at old home RFK Stadium were a given. When offensive innovator Joe Gibbs called the shots as a head coach destined for induction at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And, of most significance considering the current climate, when Jack Kent Cooke was the owner of a club that would be sold by his estate to Daniel Snyder a decade later, a transaction that led to a whole lot of losing — only four teams have a lower winning percentage since 1999; only two have fewer playoff wins — and whirl of misconduct that has not abated. So what does Stokes see nowadays when he looks at what has become of what are now known as the Commanders, following the discarding of an offensive name amid a national reckoning about racism in 2020 — although Snyder's wife, Tanya, and the team president, Jason Wright, seemed to forget about that change on Sunday, when both gave shoutouts to the old moniker at a "homecoming" rally outside the stadium featuring dozens of former players? “A house without a proper foundation,” Stokes said. “You can’t have crown molding, you can’t have nice countertops, you can’t have hardwood floors, without a foundation. When I came here, there was a foundation. That’s missing.” Wearing on his right hand the gold ring earned via a Super Bowl victory under Gibbs in January 1992, following a season in which Stokes was second on Washington with 6 1/2 sacks, he continued: “What’s that expression? ‘It takes a village to raise a child.’ Well, it takes an organization to win a Super Bowl, not just coaches and players." Under Snyder, the approach has varied over the years. Resurrecting the careers of past winners such as Gibbs and Mike Shanahan, who never came close to equaling their earlier coaching resumes. Hiring someone few others considered head coaching material in Jim Zorn, then adding an out-of-football play caller whose most recent job had been as a bingo caller (Sherman Lewis). Bringing aboard right-hand men who never panned out, such as Vinny Cerrato and Bruce Allen. Free agency has been all over the place, from wild overspending to against-the-rules accounting to the underspending of last offseason. Drafting often has been a disaster. All of that is to say nothing of the general dysfunction and, worse, the allegations of sexual harassment and financial impropriety that led to multiple ongoing investigations of Snyder — by the league, by Congress, by D.C.’s attorney general — and prompted Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay to say a week ago that there is “merit to remove” Snyder. He already was fined $10 million and told to cede day-to-day operations of the club to Tanya for several months by the NFL last year after a previous inquiry into widespread sexual harassment and mistreatment of women at the team. Attendance is at the bottom of the league, but some of the spectators on hand Sunday let their feelings be known — during a victory, no less, by a score of 23-21 against four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers that improved last-place Washington's record to 3-4 this season — by booing and then chanting “Sell the team!” after Tanya Snyder was part of a video about breast cancer awareness that played on the videoboard. Hardly the first time that cry has been heard at the dilapidated arena in Landover, Maryland. As it is, the stands were loaded with Green Bay supporters; for every No. 17 Doug Williams or No. 21 Sean Taylor or No. 28 Darrell Green or No. 89 Santana Moss burgundy-and-gold jersey, there was a No. 12 Aaron Rodgers or No. 4 Brett Favre or No. 52 Clay Matthews or No. 87 Jordy Nelson green-and-yellow shirt. “I just hate seeing a lot of Packers fans here today,” said Raleigh McKenzie, the starting left guard for Washington’s champs in two Super Bowls (and, as it happens, a player for Green Bay in the final two years of a career that lasted from 1985 to 2000). Few NFL organizations have managed to lose the way Washington has since Snyder was part of a group that purchased the team for a then-record $800 million in 1999, when he vowed: “Our commitment is to bring winning football back to Washington.” So much for that. In the 23 seasons completed since that transaction, the club has won a grand total of two playoff games. Yes, two. Most recently in 2005. Only two of the NFL’s 32 clubs own a smaller collection of postseason victories in that span: The Detroit Lions have zero; the Cleveland Browns have one. “It does get frustrating. I hear fans say, ’Oh, I remember when ... ,” said Virgil Seay, a wideout for Washington in the early 1980s. “They want to be with you through thick and thin, but they need something to cheer about.” Heading into its next game, at Irsay’s Colts on Sunday, Washington’s winning percentage of .424 since the start of the 1999 season — based on a regular-season record of 159-216-1 that does not include a single campaign of more than 10 victories — is better than just four clubs: Cleveland (.326), Detroit (.352), Jacksonville (.391) and Las Vegas (.408). There is no question that since Snyder took charge, Washington has been among the league’s least-competitive outfits, the dregs of the dregs, a far cry from what once was. Its 18 playoff wins from the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 through the 1998 season were outdone by only three teams: Dallas (31), San Francisco (24) and Pittsburgh (21). Those are also the only franchises that accumulated more Super Bowl triumphs than Washington’s three during that stretch — which came after two NFL championships in 1937 and 1942. Perhaps it was just a slip of the tongue, but also happened to be accurate, when Tanya Snyder made mention of the 90-year-old franchise’s “seven decades of fantastic football” while addressing the folks gathered in Legends Plaza before Sunday’s game. “We kind of spoiled the fans here,” McKenzie said. “I’m sure they think, ‘Hey, that was special.’ I just hope we get it back.”

Incompetent people hire incompetent people. It's true that Snyder didn't take the photo in front of the porta-potties...but he hired someone to take the photos who SHOULD have noticed they were standing in front of porta-potties and SHOULD have suggested a background change. But because they were incompetent, we got porta-potties...

They didn't contact Darryl Grant. They misspelled Mark Moseley's name ("Mosley") Any other SNAFUs/FUBARs from alumni weekend?

I'm not sure how they can even tout the 'change in culture' since 2020...wasn't it mentioned in an article that 40 front office staffers have resigned in the last two years since this awesome new 'culture' swept in with Jason Wright's hiring?

What if Bezos wants to run them like a fantasy team too?? 😐 Can you imagine Bezos introducing himself as the new owner...and as the new GM...and as the new head coach?

You just can't make this stuff up: Tanya Snyder caps address to fans by invoking the team’s former name So, basically, the team thinks it’s OK to periodically use the nickname that was retired due to the fact that it had become a dictionary-defined slur. On special occasions only, apparently From PFT, by the way.

That's an insult...to snake pits all over the world 😃

I fear the MJW investigation will just say there's no physical proof so nothing can be proven. That's always the problem with sex pest claims. As far as Friedman being an unreliable accuser, both things can be true. Friedman can be a scumbag AND he can be telling the truth about the finances. Snyder's lawyers know this but it's the only thing they can hold on to.

It's obvious to me that someone working for Snyder, maybe a lawyer, leaked the emails. When that comes out, prepare for Team Snyder to claim it was a rogue employee who acted without orders. Cue more drama!

And from Wright himself: “I have been fully empowered by the Snyders to do my job as I see fit. ... I think it is important for the media to make that clear: this organization changed years ago and is a model for what committed leadership can do to transform a workplace when problems are raised to their attention. We are today a far more diverse and inclusive team, with women and people of color holding more than 40 percent of our senior leadership positions.” https://www.si.com/nfl/commanders/news/veiled-racism-jason-wright-hiring-dan-snyder-commanders-attorney-exclusive-dirt-jerry-jones-ron-rivera-carson-wentz This is why getting quotes from underlings is so useless...what did they EXPECT him to say?? "Yes it's true. I don't deserve this job."??

If you go back to that propaganda piece from 2006 (https://www.washingtonian.com/2006/09/01/the-dan-snyder-you-dont-know/ he claims to have had a frugal childhood because his dad was a freelance writer. Later in that piece it also says that his dad owned a second property in England, which ain't exactly cheap. I think they must have had a decent amount of inherited money so his dad could AFFORD to be a freelance writer. Snyder also went to a private school in England, which again is NOT cheap. They certainly weren't millionaires when he was growing up, but I do think they were much better off than he hinted. By the way, that Washingtonian piece is such GARBAGE. His kids climb all over him, so that means he must be a good person? A certain dictator from Germany years ago was also pretty good with kids. That interview is pure propaganda! I'm sure Harry Jaffe had to agree to write it that way before Snyder would even agree to the interview...another way that wealthy people get to control narratives. Update: another Jaffe article from 2020 indicates that Snyder wouldn't even take his calls to talk about selling the team: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/jaffe-report-why-selling-dcs-football-team-would-be-a-win-for-dan-snyder/2351499/ Update Part Deux: In 2009 Jaffe wrote that Dan should sign Michael Vick, partly because Snyder can't resist big names and the fans needed a jolt. This was 2009...https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/harry-jaffe-five-reasons-dan-snyder-should-sign-michael-vick

Jeff Fisher will be available in 7 to 9 months, I hear. What's Pepper Rodgers and Sherm Lewis up to these days?

Christian McCaffrey was just traded to the 49ers. If we sent the 49ers six 1st-round picks and the first-born child of our next franchise QB, I bet we could get him. 😆

Snyder would be all by himself...

From PFT...NFL must be sweating now. Maybe it'll turn up the heat on them to vote Snyder out before the emails are seen by the public: Judge declines to stay Jon Gruden’s lawsuit against the NFL pending appeal of arbitration ruling Jon Gruden officially has more wins this year than the team he used to coach. Daniel Kaplan of TheAthletic.com reports that the judge presiding over the former Raiders coach’s case against the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell has refused to stay the litigation pending appeal of the denial of the league’s effort to force the case into arbitration. The NFL filed its appeal last week. Here’s what it means. Barring an immediate appeal of the decision to not stay the case pending the other appeal, the litigation will proceed with the discovery process. Documents and other information will be requested by Gruden. Depositions of key individuals, such as Goodell and Commanders owner Daniel Snyder, will be arranged. The NFL undoubtedly will try to fight that through any means available, as the league challenges the decision to keep the case out of the secret, rigged, kangaroo court into which the league tries to direct any claims ever made against the NFL and/or its franchises. One of the most important pieces of information that will come to light if/when the litigation proceeds is the identity of the person who leaked the emails sent to former Commanders executive Bruce Allen.

Golden oldie from 1984. Why can't we hang Snyder in effigy at Fed Ex?

I'm still amazed how so many people used to say that on these boards from 2007-2019 or so. I never understood that because all the evidence indicated the opposite. If he truly cared he would have hired a competent GM and got out of the way years ago. Wish the other owners did their due diligence about what kind of boss he was instead of just looking at his money. He should have been suspended for firing Marty and whining about fantasy football. Not a good look for the league when an owner cares more about stats than winning. Oh well at least Snyder didn't call plays down from the booth or choose the QB for each play like Irsays father did!🙄

I had 2 coworkers who used to work at Snyder Communications in the 90s. They hated it, were working in fear and afraid to go home before Snyder did every night. I have a real problem with toxic workplaces with bully bosses, so I knew he would be bad for this team. But I thought he would learn and grow out of those sociopathic behaviors, but all he did was double down and find stooges to take the fall for him...if anything he just got worse.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2022/10/20/if-owner-daniel-snyder-were-get-ousted-how-would-go/10534629002/ The process is as follows: Either commissioner Roger Goodell or any member of the ownership's executive committee may present charges on the ground that Snyder "has violated the provisions of the Constitution and Bylaws or is or has been guilty of conduct detrimental to the League or to professional football." Those charges would need to be submitted in writing. Goodell then would have the right to conduct an investigation "as he deems appropriate." After that, he must submit a copy of the charges by mail to each NFL team, and to Snyder. In that correspondence, Goodell would have the right to make a recommendation concerning suspension or termination of ownership. Snyder would then have 15 days to file to Goodell a written response. Goodell would then deliver a copy of the response to the other owners of the league. Goodell would then call a "special meeting," the time and place of which he would designate, "to hear the charges." Goodell would preside over the meeting. Snyder would have the right to appear in person at the meeting and would also have the right to legal representation. According to the constitution and bylaws, "strict rules of evidence shall not apply, and any testimony and documentary evidence submitted to the hearing shall be received and considered." Snyder and his team would then be entitled "to an adjournment for a reasonable time" to allow for a rebuttal. After hearing the evidence from both sides, a vote would be held. A three-quarters majority — or 24 votes — are necessary to approve removal. One quick note worth pointing out here: since Snyder or any Commanders representative would undoubtedly vote against the measure, the bar to clear would need to be 24 of 31 available votes. Should the vote to terminate Snyder's ownership of the Commanders succeed, he would be forced to sell the franchise within 120 days. If Snyder does not fulfill that order, he and Goodell would then need to mutually agree to the price and terms of sale. If they cannot reach a mutual agreement, then the matter would go to arbitration. The unspoken part This is where internal politics come into play. Rationally, it does not make sense for Goodell or any member of the ownership's executive committee to present charges against Snyder if they do not feel certain there is enough support to reach the 24 votes. The reason being that if charges are presented and the vote to terminate ownership fails, it would likely create a schism and could disrupt the harmony and collaborative energy necessary for league affairs to run smoothly. These conversations presumably would take place in smaller, backdoor channels, among close allies, in order to get an unofficial head count of who is in favor. Could Snyder refuse this process? Although the Commanders issued a strongly worded statement Tuesday in response to Irsay, reiterating the stance that Snyder does not intend to sell, it's within reason that he may not want to go through the process of being questioned before his peers and would preemptively sell. "We are confident that, when he has an opportunity to see the actual evidence in this case, Mr. Irsay will conclude that there is no reason for the Snyders to consider selling the franchise," Tuesday's statement read. "And they won’t." Has this mechanism ever been used before? No. The closest example came in December 2017, when Carolina Panthers founder and former owner Jerry Richardson voluntarily put the team up for sale two days after the Panthers disclosed Richardson, then 81, was the subject of an internal investigation over alleged workplace misconduct. According to a report from Sports Illustrated, the claims included sexual harassment and the alleged use of a racial slur toward an African American scout. Though Richardson faced public pressure to sell, he never faced opposition from NFL owners. In fact, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said in December 2017 that he was "really sad" that Richardson put the team up for sale, calling him "one of the really, really, really outstanding men of football."

Harrumph!

Ok fixed sorry!

Wasn't Wright fired by McKinsey? Keep in mind that 'McKinsey types' don't have the best track record when it comes to success because they focus too much on data and not the real world.

He also said he didn't know if Snyder even WOULD talk to MJW...I fear we're being set up for failure.

Brownlee was just on Channel 9 and said MJW has still not talked to Snyder yet. 😖