Here's what. Commissioner Roger Goodell had to say to reporters
in his traditional post-meeting
media availability,
it's an ongoing investigation.
So what we talked about there were no interim reports,
we have not gotten into a reports,
we do not provide any because we don't have them.
When Mary Jo White is done
with her investigation, we will share that with the membership.
It and share it publicly as we committed to before,
and I was very clear with them. There's no reason for there to
be any speculation
at this point in time or discussion until we have
the facts. And so that was my message to the ownership and
there was
little or no discussion.
Are you surprised are you disappointed that Jim irsay had
strong comments about it?
No.
How do you like that? How do you feel about it?
Pardon me. How do you feel about? How do I feel about what
his comments? I just said, and I said it to the membership.
Speculation without facts is not a very
positive thing to do.
I think everyone deserves to have facts
and to make sure those decisions were made with facts
and the membership will have that opportunity.
Do you feel that
Dan Snyder is good for the league?
I feel that One deserves the opportunity to make sure that
they know the facts.
So speculation is not beneficial. I feel that
strongly in my heart.
So he doesn't have a problem with Jim irsay said, but he's
counseling the owners against speculation until they can get
the results of the report that eventually will be given to
them. By Mary Jo White who is doing a follow-up investigation
into multiple allegations directly against Daniel Snyder.
That weren't part of the prior investigation conducted by Beth
Wilkinson. This almost sounds
like a joke. Like I've made this up. Like how convoluted
can this be? This is all, this is the timeline. This is
the chain of events, they had it.
10-month investigation conducted by Beth Wilkinson
that they buried,
swept it under the rug, kept it under the rug. So, as I see
the commissioner talking about, let's not speculate when we
don't know the facts, you have access to facts
Beth Wilkinson has a file that for some reason
you don't want to see
you've gotten summaries, you didn't get a report. You know
why? I didn't get a written report. They didn't want
a written report because a written report from Beth
Wilkinson, what he said, you should require this guy to sell
the team. So they have been complicit in this. They being
the league office, they have run interference. And I don't
know whether it's because
Roger Goodell is afraid of what Daniel Snyder may have Jeff.
Pash is afraid of what he may have Jeff passed. The general
counsel who was implicated in some emails that he shared with
former Washington. President Bruce Allen that made passion
look bad last year. That was the
Chaser to the Jon. Gruden emails didn't get the same
traction as Gruden didn't force pass out of a job but it was
embarrassing. It was about I'd look for the NFL they for some
reason, Kris
July 1 of 2021 buried the evidence that Beth Wilkinson
had generated. So Roger don't stand up there, talking about
speculation, we're past speculation, we have
an investigation that got the guy essentially suspended and he's
still essentially suspended more than a year later and he
had to
pay 10 million dollars
and 7 million in legal fees. You have facts, you have
evidence all Already. This isn't speculation. We're just
waiting for more. We already have some
some that got the guy in
very deep crap with the NFL.
And now we're just waiting for I guess the final straw that
right. Break the camel's back. Yeah, well I guess that's what
I was going to ask you, right? I mean, I guess are they
treating the other Beth Wilkinson and all of that as
just like,
hey that's that's there and done with and he's been
penalized for that and they're just waiting for the other shoe
to fall and I you know, again Roger I think That the right
things,
you know, he did a good job in pursuing or at least supporting
Jim irsay to a degree. Like you said, they're, you know, I do
think he has to say the things about, hey, we want more facts
that come out, but I guess they're
not even acknowledging that last like, he's paid
a suspension, he's paid his fine. And that's that, this is a new
ball game. They're waiting on here
or they're waiting for more information from this new
investigation to come out so that they can really I guess go
to the full court press. Don't know, Mike? I'm asking. Yes,
the key. Yeah, that's the key. And we'll talk more about
the evidence that was
gathered by Beth Wilkinson and how that is impacting current
events in a few minutes is a lot to get to and I'm trying to
have some sort of logical flow to this. So people understand
how it all fits together. But I think you hit the nail on
the head. Roger Goodell is treating what happened in the past
as over and done
the initial investigation.
If they're going to make a run at Dan Schneider, it's going to
be
A direct result of the evidence that they get in the Mary Jo,
White
follow-up, right investigate,
and will that be enough
to tip 24 towards saying make this guy cell
will there be greater transparency? There
will there be facts and details the Robert Sarver case
the Phoenix Suns owner who was essentially forced to sell
when the NBA punished him. They had some
Facts. They were never facts about Snyder in July of 2021.
This time around, it doesn't take much to start
the Groundswell. Will people say this guy's just got to go. Now
whether he responds to it, that way is a different issue
because he's Daniel Snyder.
Here's another reason. Why it was smart
for Roger Goodell to do what he did yesterday
if and when the legal crap, hits the fan,
the NFL will try as we've seen time and again,
to get any litigation
in its own in-house secret. Rig Kangaroo Court over, which we
To get out presides
and we've seen
in past cases, the things Roger Goodell has said be used
against him
in the arguments as to why he's not fit
to be the person who decides these issues.
So, smart play Yesterday coming off as the voice of reason,
let's not prejudge, Everyone's entitled to a voice,
Everyone's entitled to a defense.
Everyone's entitled to their side of things.
So even though Snyder and his lawyers,
Will still argue aggressively that Roger Goodell is not
the person who should be resolving this if they think Roger
Goodell would not give them the ruling they want.
It's smart for Goodell
to not give them any extra ammunition to say, he's not fit
to be the one who decides this issue. Yeah, that's right.
I that makes sense. I mean, yeah but why? When he can maybe have
a
real say in the matter here?
And yeah, it doesn't want it to look bias
as far as sides, he's taking or anything.
So what he's got to do is leadership,
but man
again, we'll see where this goes and obviously, we're going
to have to wait for the the Mary Jo White investigation to
diminish here. But I just have a hard time thinking that
if it's not like
total exoneration as it sits right now. I mean, like totally
like, wow, like everything we've heard and all that, it
just, it all ended up, being just some disgruntled
employees,
you know, throwing stuff out there which I highly doubt.
A out, right? But
I just got to think that the owners want him out of there.
I just or say I think is speaking for others for sure or at least
it's on their mind. How could they not?
I mean again it's a
one of the best franchises and football. That's Fallen,
the crap bill over the last 20 years. I mean it's one of
the traditionals like organizations in the history of football
and they're not relevant. Let alone kind of a laughingstock
kind of like
Stadium in the middle of nowhere. That nobody not even
their fans want to go to. I mean, just from that aspect
alone, like business part of it. I gotta think the owners
are disappointed in that fact, with the Washington,
you know, franchise
and other than maybe the teams in the NFC used to just want to
beat their ass all the time. And then the fact that, you
know, he's there's, you know, I feeling of, he could go
scorched Earth, and, and,
and threaten, all of us. And all that, I can't imagine those
guys. Those 31 people, you back them into the corner, with
the Let's
oh yeah. Yeah. They want to keep you around and let you
hang around in the club. Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah. Good luck
with that. So
you know again I just got to think it's going that way and
we'll see whenever this report comes out, but um, I'm
certainly more interested now after yesterday.
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