All right. It's getting more interesting. The controversy
involving the Washington commanders and whether or not
there was ticket Revenue, withheld from the visiting
teams, fun. There's danger. Starter. The guy who's not in
day-to-day operation control
of the Commander's showing up first to tell everybody what
the new name was back on, February 2nd. So yesterday we
made a very simple point
if someone is speaking to the US House committee on oversight
and reform and saying or alleging to be
accurate. Alleging, that there was some sort of a scheme where
ticket money wasn't properly, shared with the NFL's visiting
team fund. That's something that you would think
the Washington commanders would specifically and loudly deny as
of yesterday morning, when we were doing the show.
They hadn't the League's comment was no comment
at some point yesterday after we could Joel them both on this
show and in writing at PFT. Here's what the Commander's had
to say.
There's been absolutely no withholding of ticket Revenue
at any time by the Commander's those revenues are subject to
Independent audits by multiple parties. Anyone who offered
testimony suggesting a withholding. A revenue has
committed perjury,
plain and simple. Pretty strong response. Yep, pretty strong
effort to refute. What as it turns out,
and we can now piece this together through implication
and Reporting. And some of the reporting came from
the athletic. Jason Freedman, a 24-year employee of
the Washington commanders
is the person who apparently
testified to the Committee on oversight and reform
and made the accusations. Now as the
athletic reports that he made the accusations. This is per
an unnamed Source who spoke to Daniel, Kaplan of the athletic.
He made the accusations without adding any evidence. A
statement that was issued by
Friedman's, lawyer. Lisa Banks last night who represents more
than 40 former employees of the team. She pointed out that
there is evidence to back up, Jason Friedman's claim and
the very strong implication
from this statement. I'm not going to read it
but the stronger.
Application is number one Friedman is the one who went in
there and said these things. Number two, he would say them
publicly, but he's subject to some sort of restriction that
they would like the team
to lift so he can tell his story.
So hey, let's go out. Let's hash it out in the court of
public opinion. Let this guy tell his story, Washington
commanders if he's wrong and he tells it publicly suing for
defamation.
Let him walk into the Trap. If you think he's wrong. It's that
simple. Let him if he wants to speak publicly. Let him do it.
His own legal Peril
if he's telling a lie about the Commander's
or maybe he can back it up
one way or the other. We got to get to the bottom of this.
There's no gray area.
It happened or it didn't. And he got one guy who's very
confident. Apparently that it did. Yeah, and you got a team
that's very confident that it didn't.
Let's go. Let's find out. Let's see the evidence.
Let's hear the testimony.
Let's see whether or not there's something to this. Chris
agreed. I mean, it's just this gets juicier by the day. It
really does. I mean, it was a strong. I meant by
the Commander's definitely
but you know, again to
hear some of the details, there somebody come out and say, oh,
he does have the evidence or is the evidence to back that up,
man?
I don't know where this goes. It's just it's unbelievable,
Washington and it's unbelievable where they're at.
And it just seems like they got enemies and every corner.
That's what it seems. Like. That's what it seems like with
the Washington Commander's
right now and I'll you just get the feel that they've
mistreated.
In not been great to people for so long that it's like the pied
Pipers, kindly come home to, you know, karma's here.
It's like the payback. I don't know what else to say,
but it's man dysfunctional to say the least down there.
And if this happens or this found to be true,
holy cow. See you later. Dan Snyder,
Karma and Pandora side-by-side in Washington,
they're in there,
but you know, it didn't occur to me
until we were talking about. Bout it. Today,
if Jason Freedman
is willing to steal her tell her story publicly unless this
is some big Bluff by attorney. Lisa Banks, who knows that
there's no way that the team is going to lift its NDA.
But
If he's willing to tell his story and he knows
the reputation and the history of Daniel Snyder, are suing
anyone?
Not anyone but he has, he has proven that he's willing to
assert his legal rights. When it comes to things that people
say that he factually disagrees with. That would be the obvious
response. And if I'm Schneider, it's like, yeah, let the guy
talk
if he's wrong and he goes out and tells lies about me
if he tells lies about me, stealing from my partner's.
Yeah.
Yeah, we'll go after him, let him talk. So
not gonna happen
but I just said, let's go one way or the other.
Let's get to the truth.
Yes. We just need to get to the truth,
whether it happens within the confines of the US
House committee on oversight and reform
whether the league looks into it. How can the league not be
looking into this? If you're the NFL
and this is if and then this lands on your radar screen
unexpectedly, there's a possibility that a team
has now maybe the
League. Maybe the league. Doesn't want to look into it
because the league was supposed to catch it. We saw
the reference to the 11. Oz. You're saying yes, maybe maybe. Yeah,
maybe the league doesn't want to say?
Yeah, you know, yeah, that good at checking our offer.
Yeah, we yeah, we, you know, what happened was? We were
supposed to do it
and
we just didn't. I also think the leave no one's going to do
this. Right? I mean that's where I was shocked yesterday,
right? I was just like, wait and doesn't the NFL have people
that check these type of things multiple audits.
The other thing that's come to my mind to Mike, you know, just
over the last 24 hours.
Maybe the NFL doesn't even want to be associated with
Washington right now. They're kind of just like let them deal
with this crap. Let them deal with the releasing,
the statement and all of this and we'll just let it all pile on
them. And try to kind of protect the shield by a kind of
staying out of
the way here a little bit. Good point, good point.
We're going to back off right. As you know, what right now
it's crumbling. We're just going to let it keep crumbling.
We're not going.
To help were not thrown a Lifeline. We're not going to
we're not going to make it worse. We're not going to make
it better. We're just going to let it happen.
Because right now, it feels like that's what's happened.
Does. Feels like it's crumbling, it does. It feels
like it is and it feels like it's like a no-win situation
for the NFL
to a degree to jump in and give statements for this franchise
all the time. And
it does to a degree. I think maybe there is some bit of a,
you know, publicity or media Ploy there and thinking of
Like let's not just associate ourselves with
the commanders at
you know, every time something comes up right now. So it can
be NFL, commanders NFL commanders. Let them deal with
it. I can understand that logic. The obvious exit
strategy
is Dan Snyder walks away and really walks away,
walks away. And has no connection excommunicated from the team.
His wife owns it and runs it
for now and his kids get it later because I was told to
years ago, his objective in
in dealing with all of these.
These fights and all of these issues and working his way
through everything and fending off. Every attack, was he wants
to give
the team to his kids.
Now, if I'm a Washington fan, I don't know.
I don't know that, I want that long-term, but
if that's a way
for them to get him out.
And move forward with minimal pain and suffering for
the league at large, that may be something that
you hope he offers at some point on his own
or maybe at the right time. You offer it to him
that maybe the exit strategy.
Otherwise, it's just going to be ongoing chaos.
And the ongoing chaos is good for us. It's not good for
the league,
not get and you can say there's no such thing as bad publicity.
There's a point where every day something else with
the Commander's everyday, some of the controversy, every Day some
of the allegation and puts
the team in the league, in a bad light
at a certain point. It's not good for anybody.
Definitely. I think you couple that with the Sean Watson and
the Browns right now and then the Litany of issues with
Washington, you know and still the cheerleaders and
the mistreating of people and
and and of course this now
with the withholding of money allegedly and all that. I know
it's all allegedly, but there is a point where, yeah, it's
not good publicity.
It's not helping them in any shape
way or form the NFL. It's not
It looks horrible right now
and it's to the point where
with Washington. I'm getting to the point a little bit. Like
I felt like would like Rogers and Brady where I'm a little bit
like, oh my gosh, would they just go away? I'm so sick of
talking about them every day about what they might do, what
they might not want to do what they meant by this. Like,
holy cow. Washington's a disaster.
The only person that probably likes this is Jerry Jones since
no one is paying the kind of attention to the thing. Well,
with the Cowboys like
that, they otherwise,
Be, it's a nice distraction. You're right. It's not nearly
the intensity. That it would be getting if we didn't have all
of these other issues
and you're exactly right there. That one there, his totally
just seemed like it's gone off the radar, the national media
and people have just given up they
they dealt with that storm or that Firestorm there is up, but
there's other stuff. I mean it's you know, it's
based upon reporting last week from ESPN. Yeah.
It's the ex-husband of Charlotte Jones Anderson, who
is Heading to the Cowboys and they're
sending nasty letters to lawyers making threats and
requesting that that the documents be retained to try to
prove that. There's some sort of conspiracy to extort money
from Jerry Jones in the cowboys
that Shy Anderson. The ex-husband of Charlotte Jones
Anderson is somehow involved in and these are all allegations
that are outlined in reporting from Don van natta,
and then you've got the 25 year old
Congressional aide who
claims that she's the daughter of
Jerry Jones and there's litigation there. And
Last week, Jones
admitted through a spokesperson that money has been paid to
this person over the years, but no comment on whether or not
Jones is actually a father mean, it's a mess on multiple
fronts for them. And this is the Cowboys.
It's amazing. It's not getting more attention,
but I think there's only so much we can deal with right and
this other stuff is allowing the Cowboys thing which is kind
of, this, vague amorphous. We don't really know what to make
of it. It's kind of being pushed off to the side, which
is surprising to me. Because ordinarily, you would think
anything with the Cowboys and Jerry Jones would be front and
center. Well, I think I feel like in the want in
the Washington area. The local media is pursuing these stories
still. I feel like in
just again and maybe I'm not but maybe I'm wrong man. That
is the only one with the new reporting. That's what I'm
saying and Dallas they're all in bed with the Cowboys. Oh
Jerry, we're going to training. We're going to Ochsner. We're
going to California going
to hang out with you.
We're going to access to you every moment. We want.
We won't tell any of your dirty laundry.
I mean, that's what seems like it's going on down there. It's
leased from 10,000 feet above here.