BringMetheHeadofBruceAllen

What are the chances the Manders dial up RG III? Just kiddin'...I think we have a better chance of signing Matt Ryan or Russell Wilson and overpaying them next year.

The reaction to it, if it was known at the time it was because of family illness.

That's disgusting.

I don't mind Neil because he's just playing devil's advocate, which is good practice for anyone and not just lawyers. I do believe that billionaires can get away with murder, however. Deep pockets can buy a lot of justice!

That means the only way to get Snyder out is for major corporate sponsors to start pulling out of the NFL, or at least with the Manders. Eventually NFL owners are going to have to wake up and smell the burnt toast, and realize that no matter how difficult it may be to get rid of Lil' Danny And His Trophy Wife, that it will be worth it in the long run because Snyder is clearly costing all of them money. If some financial wizard produced a spreadsheet indicating just how much more $$$ the owners would make if Snyder was gone, and how much he has cost them already, that may move the dial.

This team is so stupid that I wouldn't be surprised if they made a move to pick up Matt Ryan's contract.

From Hogs Haven...very long so I'm posting only the end part: https://www.hogshaven.com/2022/10/25/23422540/unpacking-the-curious-logic-of-dan-snyders-defenders Unpacking the Curious Logic of Dan Snyder’s Defenders Occam’s Razor Says Dan is the Problem To summarize the main findings thus far: Four out of five Head Coaches achieved greater success working for different team owners, including multiple Super Bowl winners Joe Gibbs and Mike Shanahan and even the underwhelming Ron Rivera. All six offensive coordinators who have held similar positions elsewhere had greater success with other clubs. The one partial exception, Al Saunders, was much more successful in Kansas City and Oakland than in Washington. Five of 11 defensive coordinators had greater success with other clubs than Washington, two have had mixed results throughout their careers and four had their best results under Snyder. Four out of five personnel executives achieved greater success with other teams than with Snyder. To most Washington fans, these findings will just reinforce what they already know: that Dan Snyder is the ultimate cause of Washington’s on-the-field struggles. Yet certain regular posters on Hogs Haven will invariably attempt to explain that the problem lies with someone else. Most recently, the blame has shifted to Ron Rivera, the Martys, Scott Turner, Jack Del Rio, Carson Wentz, or some combination of those culprits. That might seem plausible to fans with short memories, because none of that cast of characters has a particularly impressive football resume. The problem with argument is that, in order to excuse Dan Snyder of responsibility for 23 years of failure on the field, they also need to explain how a long line of accomplished coaches and executives before them have also failed to find success in Washington. These include three-time Super Bowl champion Joe Gibbs, two-time Super Bowl champion Mike Shannan, 2000 Ravens defensive coordinator Marvin Lewis, Kansas City offensive coordinator Al Saunders, and Carroll-Wilson Seahawks co-architect Scot McCloughan. Even dismal Redskins’ defensive coordinators Greg Manusky and Joe Barry managed to field respectable squads with other teams (Manusky: 2009 San Francisco; Barry: 2021 Packers), but not under Snyder. Scientists have a principle known as Occam’s Razor, which is used to decide between competing explanations put forward to explain the same set of phenomena. Occam’s Razor states that the simplest explanation which can account for all observations is preferred, until facts are uncovered which require a more complicated explanation. On the one hand we have the simple explanation that, through his mismanagement, Dan Snyder creates the conditions which prevent even accomplished football executives and coaches from succeeding. On the other we have: Rivera failed because of X, Gruden failed because of Y, Shanahan failed because of Z, Gibbs failed because of Q, Scot McCloughan failed because of R, and so on. I will grant you Spurrier, Zorn and Bruce Allen. By simple application of Occam’s Razor, it is clear that Dan Snyder is the problem. And when William of Occam and Bill Parcells both drive you to the same conclusion, you know you are on to something.

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!🙄