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  1. FootballZombie
    I don’t think the lawyers are much of a threat. Whoever those lawyers are, they will not be as big and bad as the ones employed by Snyder. He will have the best available. I doubt we see a mass exodus of sponsors either. If the sponsors were going to pull, they likely would have done so by now. No need to wait for accusation 51. The other owners will not vote him out. No NFL owner has ever been voted out. The other owners will never do something that will collectively make themselves more vulnerable. I don’t believe he can be pressured to sell. He has already faced and resisted this pressure from his own people for some time. Without something new, or something we don’t know about yet, we simply are not at the tipping point in terms of giving Snyder the boot. Maybe the investigation changes that, but I’m not sure what that can tell us that all these women have not already. The longer this takes, the better this is for Snyder as well. Without more gasoline on the fire, there just is not enough here at this point. It is going to require something bigger to force Snyder out. I’m talking zombie apocalypse big.
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    There really is not much to defend. I will continue to support the team, and based off what we know right now I see little to no chance that Snyder is removed from his position. That is about all there is to it for me. Even though as a Zombie I can choose to fight and die on multiple hills, I don’t see a path to daylight at the end of this boot Snyder warpath.
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    Bone crushing goodness for those that want it That Gnom would make a zombie proud
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    Man, I can see the angles, but I just don’t buy all this Bezos stuff. Dude is stupid rich. So rich he has zero need to play the long game. I’m pretty sure he has more money than every other owner combined. If he wants a team that badly, he can just walk up to any owner and triple their net worth. Unless he specifically wants our team (Its close to HQ2, bring clients to home games!) It all feels like unnecessary beating around the bush. Sure, he’d pay more money to acquire a team, but he likely would have made a lot of it back by now with his Amazon stock explosion for having a partner like the NFL and the likelihood of stadium name deal on the way. He honestly might be too rich to be an owner. We would not be his top priority. Zombie’s like to be noticed. Bezos will straight Scrooge Mcduck.
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    "Overkill is underrated." That quote is the bane of all zombie kind. Its also true for the removal of owners
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    If bad PR can get rid of an owner, Snyder would have gotten the boot 10x over by now. Nothing changes if more people come forward. His reputation is at zero. What’s it gonna do, go into the negatives? Unless he himself does something (or has done something) He is pretty safe. Kraft on the other hand, was not just caught up in a prostitution sting, but a human trafficking sting. Depending on the surrounding cases and his own, there is a real possibility that you would be able to directly connect Kraft to supporting human trafficking. You want an ugly look? Think about the articles that show how an owner is empowering the human trafficking trade. Prostitution and Human Trafficking is not the same. In prostitution, one party pays another. In human trafficking, someone is FORCED into labor/sexual/physical things. Human trafficking is slavery. I don’t believe that is an image the NFL wants and if it comes down to it, that is the kind of megaton bomb that will force a vote. All it takes is one journalist to play the “Kraft supported slavery card”. He’d be done. No chance at coming back as a zombie either.
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    Tell that to Kraft, Isray and an endless list of NFL owners. Dudes have been charged with felonies. You need a megaton Bomb. Absolute overkill. Double tap in a single blow
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    The NFL has never, I repeat never, voted out an owner. It is a shiny red button that is never to be touched. It is an empty threat. The other owners will not take a measure that makes themselves more vulnerable unless there is no recoil to themselves. It would take a Donald Sterling level catastrophe to push the other owners to that length. As of what we know now, we are not there. Not even close. In a world where they give Snyder the boot, things that are currently not a smoking gun, will become a smoking gun. Its that simple. You would be adding to the "how to get an owner canned" playbook. If we are in a world with more eyes and more scrutiny, that gives the owners even more incentive to sit back and do nothing, as it protects their own skin. This would be the absolute worst time to make themselves more vulnerable by setting precedent on the removal of an owner. The owners won’t stand to have a commissioner who politics them to remove another owner, so Goddell won’t push the issue either. The NFL gets rid of unwanted owners by pressuring the to sell, but by all accounts, Snyder has been facing internal pressure for some time and that has not yielded any kind of result. In fact, minority owners have tried to sell their stakes. Unless more comes out, and there are things that directly implicate Snyder himself, dude is going nowhere. Sad, but that is the most likely scenario. I’d shed a tear, if my tear ducts still worked that is.
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    This is not just a slippery slope, this is a black ice covered drastic incline. If you believe that other owners will give Snyder the boot for what is mostly a bunch of sexual harassment claims (the severity of which does not matter) that have been collected over numerous years, I think you have another thing coming. Give me a dart board of large corporations or NFL teams, and I guarantee a blind guy can hit one that has accrued at least 10 or so harassment cases. Here is a scenario in a world where owners have tossed Snyder aside: Women feel empowered to share their stories after the WaPo articles. 10 women come forward against NFL Team X for cases over the last… 20 years. The severity of this harassment is irrelevant as the headline is all that matters. Now that owner is facing the threat of removal because precedence has been set on the matter. That is not hard to envision for any massive company or organization. Even if it’s not as many cases, you have at least opened the door to the possibility and started a conversation because of what happened to Snyder. If 40+ is enough to get the boot. What about 20? 10? 5? No owner will willingly open that window. There is laughing in the face of danger and then there is spitting into that same face. So many owner’s would be in hot water in that kind of world. You would have to be a legit Zombie to have any hope of surviving that environment, The Patriots origination is constantly facing scrutiny, it just gets overshadowed by their success. They have been punished by the league and nationally crushed for what, 4 cheating scandals? Every other year we gotta talk about some kind of Patriots “gate” story. The have created a culture that both accepted, and continues to accept dirty tactics at every level. That starts at the top, and permeates the entire operation. The owner even personally adds to the problem. On top of being in a feud with the Commish, Kraft is in actual ongoing legal trouble over prostitution. Wash is not the only team creating massive levels negativity on a near constant basis.
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    Regardless of the reason, every time an owner is given the boot, you are adding to the playbook on how to make such a thing happen. It is in every owner’s best interest to keep that playbook as small as possible, as the things within it could be used against them at a later date. To get rid of an owner, every other owner has to basically collectively make themselves more vulnerable. Even if the owners don’t like a guy, it would take a tremendous bomb to force the other owners to take action. They won’t make themselves less secure unless they absolutely have to. There has been 1(?) accusation against Snyder himself. The rest is running an organization that is hostile towards women. If that is enough to lose your team, I guarantee you that a whole lot of other owners would begin to sweat buckets considering how women are treated in the workplace across the country, not just in the NFL. How many of these franchises have never had a sexual harassment claim? At what number is it enough to call for an owners head? No Owner is opening themselves up to those questions unless they have to. Otherwise there would be a absolute ton of dead men walking. (Zombie Pun) It does not matter how they stack up compared to Snyder. The dominoes are all in a row, and it only takes a single bump to cause a chain reaction
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    There is no rule against being a bad owner. They are in a position of immense power and are protected by an incredibly strong union in the form of the other owners. Unless you can connect them directly and prove some kind of truly reprehensible behavior, they are going nowhere. On top of that, the effected party will likely have to be in a position of power to force their expulsion. Jim Irsay has been arrested over DWIs and possession of schedule IV drugs. He still gets to own his team. Robert Kraft has been arrested for legit prostitution charges. He still gets to own his team. A bunch of owners have faced tax evasion issues. Many still own their teams. I believe the Panther’s former owner sold his team after investigations found that he sexually harassed his employees, but it does not look like we are quite there with our own specific investigation. Snyder would know why other owners have sold their teams. If he personally did something, I think he would have resisted an independent investigator much harder. All we can do is play the waiting game, but I don’t think fostering a crappy environment is enough to give an owner a punt. There are true scumbags in owner’s chairs all over the league and nobody wants to throw stones when they themselves live in a glass house. If and when that referenced incriminating evidence reveals itself however… Those other owners will turn into insatiable zombies.
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    The first time this story came out, it was hyped to levels it could never hope to achieve, greatly softening the impact. This time it will be absolutely buried by what is going on around all of sports now, with multiple teams boycotting. I’m not sure enough vitriol and pressure will be generated to force substantial action when focus is being drawn another direction so strongly. The greatest changes that will occur will be by the hands of the people we have recently hired. I like what they have been saying, so I hope that leads us to a better place. I have a strong feeling that this will all amount to a large fine for Snyder and little more. Enough money to bury him under, but not enough to stop him from digging out and continuing on. (Zombie Pun)
  13. FootballZombie
    Yannick Ngakoue? He called everybody out so loudly it woke ME up He wants to go to a new team though. New person signing the checks
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    We are in the midst of a year long name change that should keep us in the news. We just acquired a new player that is expected to be a superstar. A little further down the line we have a new stadium in the wings. That organizational value should spike a bit moving forward. I would pretty much expect Wash to rise up that list in the coming years. Like any zombie, I do enjoy a good COMEBACK story. (Zombie Pun)
  15. FootballZombie
    I am in total agreement. Does anyone here believe there are only 3 superstar QBs in the league? Of course not. If the talent is there, its there. Its that simple. Some guys just have the ability to make is brain, and those guys stand apart. (Zombie Pun) The inverse is true as well. If one guy is super dominant, they can shrink the elite pool at the position. The Tres Way special
  16. FootballZombie
    Bye Lattimer. I’d say I hardly knew ya, but I didn’t know you at all. Does this mean we are looking to pick up a new WR? Lattimer contributed about as much as my non-functioning spleen. Literally anything can replace his lack of production.
  17. FootballZombie
    They drafted two guys. They brought in two vets in the form of Inman and Lattimer. They tried to get Cooper. This team has worked at upgrading the WR corps, but the best ability is availability. Lattimer can’t contribute right now. Cooper is not on the team. Harmon is hurt. AG is going to split time elsewhere and AGG is likely an outside threat only at this point. Quinn is quietly sitting there, able and ready to go. If the argument is to bring in other guys, sure. (Josh Gordon is available, but he is dealing with his own things) I’m just focused on what we currently have on the roster. When I look at the scraps at the end of our depth chart, I don’t see anyone capable of knocking Quinn off of this team. At this point he is a brain... er... bird in the hand. I may have lost an eyeball last week but I still have 20/ vision in my remaining one. Until we bolster our corps with new talent, I don’t SEE Quinn going anywhere. (Zombie Pun)
  18. FootballZombie
    While it does include slot play, Gibson has his own defined role in our offense. To remove him from his own role, to plug a potential Sims vacancy would be creating another hole. Not ideal when I can have him and discount Sims in the form of Quinn on the field together. If I was going along that line of thinking, I’d be confident that McL could fill in, but why would we do that when we don’t have to. The ideal fill in is a back-up, and someone who won’t be a featured piece in this offense like Gibson. JD is a RB. While he can motion out to the slot from time to time, I don’t want him there full time in the event of a Sims injury. I don’t think anyone here is of that mindset. It would be hard to find someone who even believes he should start over Sims, let alone becoming Edleman. He is simply a back-up player who offers several years of experience and has special teams capabilities. Looking over his competition at the bottom of the roster: Cam Sims: He of 2 rec Wright: UDFA Kidsy/Weah/Veasy: Who? Lattimer: Not even here Harmon: Can he play on crutches? Its not hard to envision Quinn outlasting these guys. Beating the “he needs to be cut” drum seems a bit too premature. I have him easily on our PS, especially since it is expanded this year. Unless you seriously plan on replacing his roster spot with the ghost of Malcom Kelly (Zombie can hook you up with his numby) we have nothing at the position depth wise.
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    I don’t think that is the best word here. I think Trey Quinn’s footwork is the problem more so than his suddenness or explosiveness. His 10 and 20 yd combine splits are both only 0.01 slower than Turbo’s. What he lacks, compared to Terry, is top and speed and clean releases from his breaks. He has the physical gifts needed to get short yard separation, he just has to greatly improve his footwork. With better steps, he can take advantage of his gifts and get that separation. The deep ball is what I am worried about. Like Zombie’s left foot, the top end speed just is not there.
  20. FootballZombie
    There is a solidified spot on this roster for Quinn, as a back up slot. While he wont push Sims for playing time, slot receivers tend to be small and it’s a lot harder for them to make it through 16 games. Even harder if that same guy in your punk/kick returner. Quinn not only has experience in the slot, he has experience returning kicks to boot. When Sims needs to miss a week or two, Quinn can fill right into that missing void. Unless Inman can, (I don’t know) I don’t believe there is another receiver on our current roster that can properly fill in Sims role. I expect Quinn to make this roster even if starting out on the practice squad. I also expect him to start spot games. This team has nearly zero depth at WO. Quinn is one of the only ones we do have. I won’t be quick to bury Quinn into an early NFL grave. (Zombie Pun)
  21. FootballZombie
    You are not alone. I like him when we bring in extra coverage guys, but he will have to continue to prove himself as a starter. Aside from that, I think he is our best ST player outside of Way. He has significant value on this roster, however he is used. You would have to be brain-dead not to see this guys value. (Zombie Pun)
  22. FootballZombie
    Stacked? Stacked! Dude! If Haskins hits, not only would you have your QB1 WR1 and Bookend Edge rushers, you would have them all on rookie deals. You would be a LT away from having your premium money positions covered. If Haskins hits the surrounding roster quality will be so high (due to available funds) that this team will be a contender by Rivera yr 2. This Roster from a financial availability standpoint is potentially outstanding. Zombie might even be able to afford a new pair of shoes. I’m tired of dragging around barefoot.
  23. FootballZombie
    Have seen what this cat can do with a rubik’s cube?! He does not have to compare himself to them. They compare themselves to him. He is the new measuring stick. Drops Zombie hand. (Just as good as a mike, right?)
  24. FootballZombie
    I think Conn hit the nail on the head. Being an elite team is not the only reason to bring in talent, even if they come with baggage. The best example of this is actually OBJ himself, who was dealt to a team with a losing record, but they had a young QB who they wanted to give every chance to succeed. Its not like they didn't already have weapons (Landry) but they chose to double down and force their Young QBs progression. We have a young Qb. We have Turbo. If the opportunity presents itself to offer Haskins and Terry a security blanket, you take it. It does not have to be OBJ, but the front office has made it very clear they strongly value another wing presence and there are not a lot of those available. We threw 22+ at Cooper, they WILL do what it takes to get somebody, just gotta wait to see who. In the meantime, Zombie feels the urge to take a little dirtnap (Zombie pun)
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    Uhh…. Can’t get worse right? **Runs to pet cemetery to dig up old rabbit and acquire its foot.
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