BringMetheHeadofBruceAllen

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/09/07/clinton-portis-pleads-guilty-to-healthcare-fraud/

Rivera's tirade reminded me of the movie Johnny Dangerously...

As recently as 2010, the WFT was the 2nd most valuable NFL franchise. They slipped to 4th in 2018...now they're 5th: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10009725-cowboys-patriots-top-forbes-most-valuable-nfl-teams-list-average-value-of-35b They've also dropped from 14th to 19th in overall sports franchise value. Snyder sure knows how to win off the field!

Agreed. In fact, if you believe that Snyder is a narcissist (like I do), then the future doesn't look bright. (From https://narcissistfamilyfiles.com/2017/09/26/big-sissies-how-and-why-narcissists-get-worse-with-age/) Narcissists tend to age into extreme versions of their worst selves. And when dementia comes into the picture, it often exacerbates matters. As narcissists get worse with age, they become more desperate, deluded, isolated, paranoid, defensive, bitter, angry, rigid, mean, and abusive. And from https://thenarcissisticlife.com/do-narcissists-get-worse-with-age/: In order to “get better” the narcissist would have to confess that his behavior and treatment of others was wrong or inappropriate. The narcissist would also need to admit that they need to change into a more compassionate human being. This will not happen for several reasons: 1) The narcissist is never wrong. “Wrong” or “inappropriate” are words that don’t exist in the narcissist’s vocabulary of self-perception. The narcissist firmly holds the belief that they are right, even if others disagree with them. 2) Compassion and empathy are considered weaknesses. Narcissists regard compassion and empathy as weaknesses because they allow people to be exploited (especially by narcissists). They know intuitively that they can manipulate and control compassionate people. 3) There is no value to the narcissist in being a better person. The narcissist may mimic compassion or empathy if there is something in it for him- something that will lead to obtaining Narcissistic Supply such as attention or others’ esteem. Like the other theatrical acts in his life, this will simply be an actor strutting on the stage for his audience. As the attention fades away, so goes the feigned compassion and empathy. Keep in mind Snyder may have seemed to show remorse...but that was obviously a condition the NFL placed on him in order to avoid a suspension or losing the team. I honestly don't think Dan will be banned for more than a year, and when he comes back I expect him to bad-mouth or fire just about everyone he feels was against him.

Someone needs to tell Danny Boy that nepotism is NOT the same as diversity.

Didn't someone predict this very move just a few months ago on this board??

Nepotism, anyone? When is the announcement that his son (Dwayne Haskins' buddy) will be named GM? 😁 Seriously, this just makes it easier for Snyder(s) to cover everything up. After all, Tanya won't let her husband go down with the ship. There have been countless examples over human history of wives enabling corrupt husbands.

Let's not forget that Theismann was out partying with Kathy Lee Crosby until the wee hours of the morning before the game. It would certainly explain his pedestrian performance. I don't think his soon-to-be-ex-wife Shari was too upset with the blowout loss: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/01/28/shari-theismann-toughing-it-out/b518ad1c-5194-45c4-9fff-421d38376c28/ Some excerpts: After the Redskins won the Super Bowl, it got worse. Joe Theismann, says his wife, did 45 speaking engagements and was home approximately one month out of the entire year. The aftershock was an official announcement of the separation, made by the Redskins publicity office last March, without Shari Theismann's knowledge. "I was in Florida. I didn't know the separation was going to be announced. I had no idea the Redskins were going to do that. I thought it was in poor taste. It wasn't their place to do it. "I thought it was something we were trying to work out," she says quietly. "All of a sudden, it was announced. Joe wanted his freedom announced. He wanted to make himself look good. To be out and about, and be legally separated. He was doing what he wanted to do anyway." "You know what really bothered me? Last year, I gave him all the love I could. Even though our marriage was falling apart. I asked for my NFC championship ring and he wouldn't get it for me. Neither would Mr. Jack Kent Cooke. I don't know where it is, but I still want it. I earned it. I was a Redskin just like everybody else. That hurt me more than anything." * On Joe Theismann: "I saw him on a television interview, saying that in a relationship, you have to give 100 percent. Joe was not a giver. Not in our marriage." * On his mouth: "I always told him to choose his words. To put his mind in gear before he opened his mouth. I used to say, 'Please don't talk.' " * On his impulsiveness: "When we left Canada, we had $450, two kids, no team to go to. Joe went across the street and spent $450 on a camera and projector." * On his mother: "I don't know if she's pleased that the marriage fell apart. I think she can sit back and say, 'I told you so.' " * On moving to Chicago: "It will be nice. They have the Bears." * On the Redskins' playoff loss to the Bears: "I thought, 'Every dog has his day. Maybe I'm having mine now.' To see them stumbling around like that in the last eight seconds, it was embarrassing." * On Joe Theismann's Hollywood pursuit: "Joe was totally taken up with them. Burt Reynolds and that crowd. He thought they were just the cream. I don't know why he needs that. Insecurity, I guess." * On celebrities shedding Wife No. 1: "They want to let go of all the bad stuff. They don't want to be reminded of when they weren't a success." * On Joe's new romance: "He says he's deeply in love. Sorry, you don't fall out of love and in love that fast." * On Cathy Lee Crosby: "Would you want her to bounce your kids on her knee?" * On forgiveness: "Somebody said to me, 'Wish him well. So the two of you didn't make it. It wasn't meant to be.' I'll look at it that way someday. I can't yet." When her husband first left, she says, "We couldn't find him. He never had the nerve or the strength to tell the kids. We never sat down together. The children cried all week. That Thursday I called my attorney and I said, 'I don't care where he is, but you get hold of his attorney and you have him phone his children.' " Shari Theismann's father died two years ago in a violent automobile accident. It was a stressful time, she says, when she needed her husband's comfort. "Joe was very insensitive when this happened. It was a time, I think, when he just wanted to be gone. The marriage was not going well. There were a lot of problems surrounding my father's death, papers and insurance and things like that."

I agree with you as well, except I don't think this fan base has any impact on whether Snyder keeps the team or not. We don't have any say-so in the matter. Snyder also likely doesn't even care what the fans think of him...after all, he has his NFL team and his mansion and his yacht, so as far as he's concerned we can all pound sand. If he does come back and try to "Napoleon" everything, what can we truly do about it, other than boycott the team? Snyder is making tons of $$$ even if the stadium is completely empty, so there's no pressure for him to change. As far as winning, yes it does seem unlikely that Snyder would meddle if things are going well. He may be a complete tool, but he's not that stupid. But watch out if this team tanks or suffers a major injury next year...I wouldn't put it past him to insert himself into the operations again. Here's another thought I just had...if Snyder is absolved of all wrongdoing by the NFL report (which I fully expect), it's possible he will get revenge on everyone by becoming even MORE of a tool around WFT Park. Unfortunately that's how many toxic people react whenever they're let off the hook.

The problem is that Dan will eventually create another "his guy" to replace the last "his guy" he fired. Because he needs that. That's his nature, to reward people who suck up to him and tell him what he wants to hear, and not what he needs to hear. This is the nature of sycophancy in a toxic work environment. The newbies will see that the suck-ups get rewarded with perks (company car, $$$ bonus, bigger office, a suite at FedEx, copies of that cheerleader DVD, etc.) and will mimic that behavior accordingly in order to get ahead, which just perpetuates the whole toxic cycle and helps to explain why nothing ever changes...until the big guy in charge is somehow run out the door. Look at the history of toxic organizations (Enron is just one example) and you will see how hard this dynamic is to change without the person in charge being replaced. The people who don't become sycophants get treated like Brian La Femina and shown the door. And I get why people would say Dan would HAVE to know he's at rock bottom and make adjustments. That would be true if Dan were a normal, rational person like everyone on this board (well, except me...) and have a true epiphany like Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas morning. But I'm not counting on that either. The reason Scrooge remains a popular character is because we realize how rare a person like that truly is, as most people like Snyder go to their graves muttering about how every single person they met betrayed them or let them down somehow...they're not capable of looking in the mirror and realizing that they are the problem. I also agree that Snyder's recent hires seem to be geared towards deflecting attention away from himself. I'm sure once this is over the NFL report clears him of any wrongdoing, Snyder will eventually shift back to his old ways without even realizing it. Right now it's looking like Jason Wright will eventually compromise his values...not that there's any indication of that right now, but he'll want to stay in Snyder's favor and probably won't even notice that Snyder's behaviors are regressing. What's he going to do, tell his boss to stop acting a certain way? Jason Wright will be back on LinkedIn looking for work. My prediction is Snyder will eventually butt heads with Rivera on luring Wright to the Dark Side as Bruce and Vinny's heir.

She knows too much. I wonder if she was one of those staffers who received a bag of apples from Snyder in lieu of a Christmas bonus one year. https://brobible.com/sports/article/cheap-****-dan-snyder-gives-apples/

London Flecther agrees with this.

I said it before: the NFL is going to regret approving Snyder's 100% takeover of the team. Shouldn't they have seen this coming? Isn't this a pretty big red flag that Snyder is now turning on the lawyer he himself hired??? Maybe the Sports Junkies will be vindicated after all... The Washington Football Team and attorney Beth Wilkinson are at odds over Wilkinson wanting to unveil details in a past sexual harassment lawsuit filed against the team, according to Pro Football Talk and Law360.com. Wilkinson — who was hired by team owner Dan Snyder to investigate the team's culture — reportedly wants to unveil previously confidential information from a past sexual harassment lawsuit, according to Law360.com. Wilkinson is trying to move up a hearing on the subject. The team believes Wilkinson is doing that to leak damaging information about the team. Wilkinson said she is trying to move up the hearing because she has another trial set for June 2, the day the Washington hearing was originally supposed to take place. Wilkinson also believes the confidential information in the lawsuit will be helpful for her investigation, and that the fight over making the information public has dragged on too long. The Washington Football Team believes Wilkinson's attorney threatened to leak sensitive information about the team in an email. In that email, Wilkinson's attorney says "any hearing on this [issue] could be a disaster for” the team." Wilkinson explained the email was not meant as a threat, and that if the Team continues to fight the issue, the court is going to look harder for additional material that should be unredacted. It's believed Wilkinson wants information from a 2009 sexual harassment lawsuit in which the Team allegedly paid $1.6 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit against Snyder, according to the Washington Post. NFL will let Beth Wilkinson run investigation The NFL drew criticism last August after it said it wouldn't hire an independent investigator to look into Washington's alleged misconduct. Instead, the league said it would rely on Wilkinson's investigation into the situation. Given that Wilkinson is being paid by Snyder, some wondered whether the NFL not hiring an additional investigator was a good idea. While Wilkinson's full report hasn't been filed yet, her fight to get that 2009 lawsuit unredacted indicates she's not going to go easy on the Team despite being hired by Snyder.

So much for my high opinion of Alex Smith. He kinda struck me as a 'dim bulb' and his latest comments confirm that assessment. I don't mean 'dim' as in intellectually or athletically stupid, I mean in terms of emotional intelligence. Considering that he was in a coma, almost died from infection, and almost lost his leg, it's stunning he would be incapable of understanding why the team would be careful with him, especially with a new coaching regime. Would he have preferred the opposite, where they made him run 'Oklahoma drills' or act as a tackling dummy as soon as he came back to the team?? I understand he had more 'faith' in his healing abilities than the team, or even his own doctors. Good for him. 99% of rational people, however, would not have predicted his eventual comeback, and they shouldn't be disrespected by him just because he proved them wrong. This isn't a case of an over-hyped athlete who gets cut from a team (ex. Antonio Brown) and then complaining that the team that cut him "is gonna miss me." Is Smith blind to his own sub-par play when he came back?? Does he or his father ever watch his game film??? But it could have been worse...can you imagine Larry Michael coming up to him and saying "Hey Alex, since you're unable to walk well maybe you can help me edit some of these cheerleader videos in your spare time." Now THAT would have been interesting!

Here we go...looks like my username turned out to be quite prophetic!! Never heard of any NFL owner having to drag his former GM into court over defamation... Daniel Snyder seeks to question Bruce Allen under oath, in connection with ongoing defamation lawsuit https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/04/15/daniel-snyder-seeks-to-question-bruce-allen-under-oath-in-connection-with-ongoing-defamation-lawsuit/ Although all matters between Washington Football Team owner Daniel Snyder and his former limited partners have been resolved, Snyder continues to pursue a defamation claim against a website that tried to tie him to the late Jeffrey Epstein. According to Daniel Kaplan of TheAthletic.com, Snyder’s latest effort targets former team president Bruce Allen. Per Kaplan, Snyder wants to question Allen under oath, and also to secure documents in his possession, custody, or control that could be relevant to the pending litigation in India (not Indiana, India) against Meaww.com. “[Snyder] has a good faith belief that [Allen] has specific knowledge of the creation and distribution of the MEAWW articles, and thus has information relevant to the Indian Action,” Snyder’s lawyers wrote in court papers. “The motion is not a lawsuit, but a request to the court to compel discovery to aid a foreign case, what is known as a 1782 motion.” The effort to gather information from Allen arises from an allegation that, during the period of January 9, 2020 through November 18, 2020, Allen participated in 87 separate phone calls totaling 1,237 minutes with John Moag. An investment banker, Moag was working for the three minority owners who were trying to sell their interest in the franchise. (Moag has denied knowledge of the articles posted on Meaww.com.) Regardless of whether they talked about the article that serves as the basis for the lawsuit, the number and duration of the conversations sparks curiosity regarding the subject(s) of their discussions. Was Allen helping Moag find buyers? Was Allen hoping that the minority partners would find a way to take over the team and re-install Allen in an executive role? Snyder fired Allen after the 2019 season. Presumably, Allen already has been interviewed as part of the investigation conducted by the league regarding claims of workplace misconduct. He quite possibly has a much different attitude about Snyder now, given that Snyder plans to gather information with the potential goal of suing Allen directly. Any litigation against Allen wouldn’t necessarily relate to the defamatory articles posted on Meaww.com. If, under the guise of exploring that connection, Snyder learns that Allen committed unrelated violations of actual or alleged duties to Snyder or the team, that could be the basis for one or more legal claims. Regardless, Snyder’s quest for justice has now led to a fight with the man who ran the franchise for years. Jason Wright, take heed.

Wouldn't surprise me if the NFL was behind this move. Didn't it come out later that the La Femina hire was forced on the Skins, only for Danny Boy to screw it up and fire the guy after a few months? While I think diversity is an admirable goal, the fact that all of these hires have only happened since Snyder got in trouble smells like the hands of Goodell. Why is the NFL so eager to bend over backwards to help Snyder in the first place?? Wonder if the NFL will get involved after Danny Boy fires some of these folks? Which he eventually will, once everything dies down...and it sounds like it will, as no one in the media seems interested in interviewing the former minority owners or people that were hurt by Snyder's boorishness. Oh, and all the cheerleaders lost their jobs...

One silver lining to this very dark cloud would be that since now Snyder owns 100% of the team, he is now also 100% responsible for everything that happens from here on out. Have to wonder, though: what if there are other allegations, with actual proof, of even worse behavior that haven't been brought to light yet? The NFL would look even worse than it does now, which isn't very good considering that all of the cheerleaders lost their jobs and the man responsible for the toxic environment that enabled their abuse was rewarded with even more control of the team by the owners' puppet Goodell. The only person who paid any price at all was Larry Michael, and all he lost was his job. The cheerleader DVD seems to have been forgotten about. It's clear the NFL didn't seriously consider the sexist environment a major problem, or they would have acted more decisively. But they will look worse if there are more allegations coming that they weren't aware of. The NFL better hope it did its due diligence... And where is the follow up? Snyder's goons tried to intimidate Moag and people who worked for the team. Schar and the other guy were DESPERATE to sell their shares...does anyone believe that it was only because Snyder missed a payment to them? All of this seems to have been swept under the rug, even by the media, who clearly isn't following up on any of this.

Some thoughts on this... 1. What's to keep Snyder from changing the name back to Redskins? (a dumb question, but thought I'd ask...) 2. Does this 'deal' mean the lawsuits are closed, meaning no one cares any more than Snyder sent goons to intimidate Moag and some of the team's employees? What about the lawsuit in India? The phone of McCloughan's wife? Has anyone ever explained why Schar and the others wanted to sell their shares so desperately that they helped expose the toxic, sexist environment at WFT Park? Does any of this matter to the NFL? 3. What if FedEx and other sponsors threatened to pull out unless Snyder sells the team?

Now if only Riddick could get Danny Boy to play with him again, this time with the franchise up for grabs, of course.

Sure he does...the Reverse Midas Touch. In fact, the Hollies wrote a song called just that back in the 60s. Did they have a time machine so they could witness the disaster of Snyder's ownership? I'm not the guy to run with 'Cause I'll throw you off the line I'll break you and destroy you Given time He's King Midas with a curse He's King Midas in reverse He's King Midas with a curse He's King Midas in reverse It's plain to see it's hopeless Going on the way we are So even though I'd lose you You'd be better off by far He's not the man to hold your trust Everything he touches turns to dust In his hands Nothing he can do is right He'd even like to sleep at night But he can't Let's not forget that the company Snyder made his billions with, Snyder Communications, was later shut down for fraud I believe. There's a thread here: https://es.redskins.com/topic/329705-the-phone-slamming-king-how-snyder-communications-made-dan-snyder-rich-1997-1999-rich-enough-to-buy-the-washington-redskins/

He won't sell because no one will ever invite him to their parties again or pretend to be his friend. To narcissistic, cry-baby billionaires, an NFL team is just a toy they like to show off, like a balding 57-year old man buying a Lamborghini Countache.

I would hope not, it's not fair to punish the fans as you say...unlike the Patriots in Spygate, who gained a competitive advantage on the field from their actions.

Owners have been forced to sell their teams for less than what Snyder is accused of. The cheerleader scandal is bad enough, but his attempts to subvert the investigation and intimidate his employees into not cooperating with Wilkinson is beyond the pale...but really shouldn't be surprising, considering that we're talking about Dan Snyder here. Gotta love how the NFL hemmed its answer...they only admitted to having not RECEIVED any such report saying all of this about Snyder. Which means in reality that it's sitting in Goodell's inbox and he just hasn't read it yet. If the NFL wants to stick to its response, however, they better be able to back it up with proof. It's clear the report was leaked to the Junkies because they feared (rightly) that the NFL would just cover it up. Have fun on your IMAX yacht, Boat Boy.

Maybe not, but the ends do justify the meanness. And I agree with TD_washingtonredskins that no one should feel ever sorry for a billionaire. As much as I support capitalism, we all know that billionaires will never suffer from any of the troubles of us 'little people.'

I'm with you. I honestly don't think the report will ever see the light of day, because Roger has already said that Danny Boy (and don't forget Tanya!!) have already made improvements in the culture...nothing to see here, please disperse. Although if that happens, I wouldn't be surprised if someone leaked it.