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1 hour ago, goskins10 said:

 

 

League has to approve all trades. With the team changing hands it would be clear it's just a **** you move. League would reject. Not that Dan wouldn;t try but league has the ability to stop it. 

 


This isn’t the NBA. The league does not reject trades. However, this scenario laid out is not a trade. It’s one team signing a non exclusive rights franchise tagged free agent. If the original team does not match they get two first round draft picks. Even though there is an exchange of draft picks it’s not a trade. We did it when we signed Wilber Marshall and the Panthers did it to us when they signed Sean Gilbert. 
 

Florio is wrong about it in my opinion because the market for Lamar is probably greater than two firsts. So if the Ravens want to trade him they will tag him with the exclusive tag then let him negotiate a deal with another team and trade him like the Browns did with Watson.

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1 hour ago, skeenzfan said:

You think he scaled Amazon to what it is today by not treating his employees well?  When you employ as many people as Amazon does, there will always be a few loud minority that will complain. You can find similar complaints about Microsoft, Walmart and others. 


 

This is Tailgate talk but you couldn’t sound more deluded about companies like Amazon and Walmart lol. Part of those companies building into the near-monopolies they have become is through exploiting the vast majority of their workforce. It’s not a “loud minority”, they hollow out local town economies whole and then use up everyone in a 40 mile radius. To the point where they are starting to strain under the weight of their own over-exposure, as they are running out of desperate people to hire who they haven’t already exploited. A majority of full-time Walmart workers need social safety nets to support their families, and Amazon famously mistreats and grinds their warehouse workers into dust. They are a blight on humanity despite the convenience they afford those of us lucky enough to not have to work there. 
 

We shouldn’t continue this conversation but damn, do some reading. None of that needs to really enter into the conversation about Bezos owning a football team, we’ve already all drawn a moral line rooting for billionaire-owned sports franchises. Owning the team, most of Bezos’s employees will be white collar desk jockeys in a relatively small building. It would probably be business VP types and GMs who would catch his infamous ire if we were performing poorly, rather than everyone else. But to act like the dude (and almost all billionaires to be fair) didn’t build an empire on the broken backs of regular people is laughable. We don’t need to live in make-believe-land just because he may buy our favorite team. We can just stay on topic. But don’t say outlandish things about his other companies in a way that demands answering lol. 

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17 minutes ago, SoCalSkins said:


Or if Tanya was there. He’s been skipping a lot but the fact she’s awol as well means it’s over. The best thing that happened was the fans booed her at FedEx. That was the end. 

 

I can see Tanya turning to Dan during the booing..."Honey, you told me they LIKED us!!"

 

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1 hour ago, SoCalSkins said:


This isn’t the NBA. The league does not reject trades. However, this scenario laid out is not a trade. It’s one team signing a non exclusive rights franchise tagged free agent. If the original team does not match they get two first round draft picks. Even though there is an exchange of draft picks it’s not a trade. We did it when we signed Wilber Marshall and the Panthers did it to us when they signed Sean Gilbert. 
 

Florio is wrong about it in my opinion because the market for Lamar is probably greater than two firsts. So if the Ravens want to trade him they will tag him with the exclusive tag then let him negotiate a deal with another team and trade him like the Browns did with Watson.

 

 

Yes the league can reject a trade. All trades and contracts BTW have to be approved by the league. This was one of the arguments against us being punished for the CAP violation. The league approved the contracts. It don;t hold up but it makes the point that the league approves contracts. So while it is rare they can reject both trades and contracts in the best interest of the league. This would be one of those cases where it it was clear Dan was trying to sabotage the team on his way out they would reject the trade and or contract. 

 

In reality I do not see this happening. I don't think he would try anything since what they have on him is enough to make him sell in the first place. My guess is he has already moved on in his head. Just waiting for his check. 

 

 

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Rivera thanked the Snyders for allowing him to extend the search. He said he had warned them that waiting for Bieniemy could mean waiting until after the Super Bowl to get a staff in place, later than the traditional hiring cycle, but they were supportive.

Wright said Snyder was "incredibly supportive" in terms of working out the title and compensation for Bieniemy, who will also be the team's assistant head coach.

 

As for the potential sale of the team, Wright said he doesn't think that will deter people from wanting to work in Washington.

"I think Eric, just like the rest of us, sees the transition as one that's good for the organization," Wright said. "On the other side of it, there's nothing but upside, as an organization.

"We've already had a lot of success in building the football side of the business from where we started when Ron took over. We established a way of working, a consistent culture, a type of guy and gal that we bring into the organization, both on the coaching staff and in the locker room, and this is a chance to accelerate that.

 

"Same thing in the business. We took something that was ebbing, we reversed the momentum, and we have really good progress. All of that only gets better as things progress."

 
 
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BIG NEWS

 

 

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has hired an investment firm to evaluate a possible bid for the Washington Commanders, according to two people familiar with the situation.

Bezos is working with Allen & Company, a New York-based firm that is prominent in transactions involving professional sports franchises, according to those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the confidential nature of the deliberations.

 
 

It remains unclear whether Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, will make a bid to purchase Washington’s NFL team from owner Daniel Snyder. But his association with Allen & Company represents a concrete sign of his interest in conducting due diligence and potentially in moving forward in the process.

 

The firm handled the two most recent sales of NFL franchises, those involving the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos. The Panthers were sold in 2018 by Jerry Richardson to David Tepper for $2.275 billion. The Broncos were sold last year by the Pat Bowlen Trust to a group led by Walmart heir Rob Walton for $4.65 billion, the record sale price for an NFL team.

 

A representative for Bezos declined to comment.

 

Snyder and his wife Tanya, the team’s co-CEO, announced in November that they’d hired Bank of America to consider possible transactions involving the Commanders. The team has not said whether the Snyders will sell all or part of the franchise. Four people familiar with the process said in December they believe that a sale of the entire franchise is the most likely outcome.

 

One potential buyer, Josh Harris, has visited the Commanders’ facility, two people familiar with the situation said earlier this month. Harris is the co-founder of Apollo Global Management and is the owner of the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers and the NHL’s New Jersey Devils. He also is a general partner of the English Premier League’s Crystal Palace Football Club and a limited partner in the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers.

 

He grew up in Chevy Chase and attended the Field School in Northwest Washington. Harris, who has an estimated net worth of $6.3 billion, according to Forbes, attempted to purchase the Broncos last year.

Several groups submitted initial bids to purchase the Commanders before a late-December target requested by Bank of America, a person familiar with the process said last month. Bezos sat out that stage of the bidding, according to multiple people familiar with the process.

 

Bezos’s lack of involvement to this point potentially opened the door to other buyers, but since the Snyders’ November announcement, all interested parties have acknowledged that Bezos’s net worth, estimated at $118.8 billion by Forbes, would allow him to outbid all competitors.

Bezos’s potential involvement first became clear in November. A person familiar with the situation said then that Bezos had interest in bidding on the team, possibly with music mogul Jay-Z as an investor.

Donald E. Graham utilized Allen & Company when his family sold The Post to Bezos in 2013 for $250 million.

Any proposed sale of the Commanders would have to be ratified by at least three-quarters of the NFL’s team owners.

 

“As far as the [sale] process, the Commanders are under a process,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in Phoenix during Super Bowl week. “That’s their process. Ultimately if they reach a conclusion and have someone that will be joining the ownership group or buying the team entirely, that’s something that the ownership will look at.”

The bidding process is taking place while the NFL conducting its second investigation of Snyder and the team’s workplace, this one being led by attorney Mary Jo White. The U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia also is investigating allegations of financial improprieties involving the team.

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay said in October he and fellow owners should give serious consideration to voting to remove Snyder from ownership, which would require the approval of at least three-fourths of the owners. Multiple owners told The Post in September they believed serious consideration would be given to attempting to oust Snyder from the ownership ranks, either by convincing him to sell or by voting to remove him.

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