Washington Eagles, weren't great then either, but you
would see the cross pollination in the NFC east. And
I mentioned that because the Rivalry between Philadelphia
and Washington.
Well, back in the 70s, one thing. I remember for, as bad
as the fields were and it seems like everyone played on
the green cement back in those days
because the Cardinals were in that division. They had green
cement the Anheuser-Busch Stadium, right? The Eagles had
green cement at veteran's, Stadium,
Washington. Had grass that made it different. The Cowboys had
that that the green cement but that special glow of the Old
Texas stadium, but I don't remember, I don't remember any
railings. Collapsing at stadiums
when those teams played back in the 70s and the collapse of
the railing at FedEx field on Sunday, continues to resonate,
because Chris on Tuesday,
Jalen hurts. The guy who narrowly avoided torn ACL
broken leg broken ankle
when you see the
One
angle of him walking into the tunnel. You realize how close
it was and how he had to use his,
his pro athlete instincts, to do a quick watch, how he does
the quickstep here. It's just it's Instinct. Quick-Step. Look
at that.
That's that's pro athlete. Normal person doesn't do
the quickstep. He does the quickstep and he avoids. What
could have been a very serious injury for him.
He signed a letter yesterday
to the NFL into the Washington football team.
Making sure that this situation
is properly addressed.
And it doesn't happen again. Really there, or anywhere else.
Let's hear a little bit from jail and hurts explaining on
Tuesday. Why he did what he did in an effort to rectify,
the situation in Washington and hope that it doesn't happen
anywhere else.
What was actually sent to League officials as well? And this,
you know, I tried to handle the situation with a lot of poise
and
show compassion for the people that fell down. I really. But
I know I'm going to cut. It could have been so much so much
worse, and
I kind of did kind of didn't hit me till after the fact,
having some time to reflect on it and think about it.
So,
I just wanted to just wanted to see what could be done to make
sure it doesn't happen. Again. That's all I really care about.
That's a very tragic incident, and it could have been much
much worse,
much much worse, but
just don't want it to happen again.
You know, his reaction is the normal human reaction as it's
happening. You're trying to process it. Chris you're trying
to you know, you just it just happened so fast,
you really don't get the chance to appreciate, right. How
serious it could have been and what the outcome could have
been for him. Or for the people who tumbled head first
down to the field level.
Next could have been broken lives, could have been lost and
good for jamming hurts, too. Stand up and say something
about it
and make sure that
that
look I'm sure the powers that be are taking this very
seriously, but they prefer that they be allowed to do so
quietly. I'm glad that Jalen. Hurd's is continuing to shine
a light on this
because it needs to be fully appreciated for the debacle
that it was and it's just the latest thing
from the Washington football team.
The Cesspool that begins
with owner Dan Snyder that needs to be properly
scrutinized and and dealt with With up to an including getting
rid of the owners. I said yesterday. And I feel no
differently and I thought,
yes, I just didn't catch a wild hair yesterday.
They need to get rid of Daniel Snyder.
The Shield, if you're concerned about the Integrity of
the game, and the way that people view the sport of professional
football. They need to get rid
of Daniel Snyder. Whatever it takes,
they need to get rid of him.
Well, I mean, I can understand you having that thought.
I mean, there's no doubt about it. I don't think it's, I don't
think it's crazy. I mean, again, I know you're out for
the. You agree with me, but
I
don't know if I agree. With you totally. I don't know. I guess
I guess. You know, I really, really do want to be a job. No,
I wasn't even thinking of going down this road. I haven't put
thought into this part of it. I wasn't even planning on going
down this
road, but he's certainly hurting the shield right now to
your point. That's what I'll say. No matter what. And I
am a little surprised with yes, you know, some of the events
that have happened and it seems like the NFL has, you know,
tried to hide some of the issues from that franchise and
what that guy is cause for the NFL, which II, don't
understand it's not a good look for the NFL. I'll say that at
the end of the day and I don't think you're like off base or
crazy to have that thought. All right. I'm not going to go
there whether I agree with you or not.
But but like
the Jalen hurts thing. All right. That that like that's
pretty damn cool. So it's hard
not to root for Jalen hurd's. With the way. He handles
himself on the field and off the field. He's got special
leadership skills, and I know his dad was a football coach,
and he's obviously been raised the right way.
It's just one, you know,
I'll tell you the first thing. I was shocked by more than
anything. Was just a fact that a quarterback would go out of
their way this time of the year to even write a letter or do
anything like that.
You know, I just I've tried to put myself in his shoes and I'd
be like, man. I'm too overwhelmed to trying to get
ready for the game. We got playoffs coming up and all of
these other things going through my mind, you know, man,
I feel bad for those guys and you know, that fell down and
the Philadelphia fans and
I'll, you know, send them some water. A graph,
you know, jerseys and helmets, or whatever else. But
I don't know if I would have gone out of my way to write
a letter to the league and make sure they follow up and do
their due diligence on this. That's special leadership that
really is. And I give him a lot of credit. I think that's going
to win over a lot of fans in Philadelphia.
It really will. I mean, he's already won a lot over with his
play, but actions like this are only gonna get more of them on
his side.
And it was required. I mean, let's let's
consider of all the things that have happened.
In Washington, under the ownership of Daniel Snyder. And
he's lumped into this because somebody said, we're why do you
care? He doesn't own the stadium. Yes. He does. He does
own the stadium. Yeah, some
owners most owners don't also own the stadium,
Daniel Snyder. When he bought the team in 1999, he bought
the stadium. He owns the stadium. It is his place. The idea that
you would have a safety hazard in
a stadium that in dangers, paying customers
and
There's weather from your team or the other team, are anybody?
Anybody who happens to be in that tunnel with the proper
credentials? Is it risk? If that railing goes? That's
a serious situation and I look at it this way, Chris,
if the worst-case scenario had happened for jamming hurts.
Yeah, and he's out for the year right? With a serious leg
injury, right? When you're talking about hundreds of
pounds of force
swinging on to that railing.
That that was a huge impact. Huge, that would have
happened on to his leg know. Do you have any of those people
had been seriously injured? We would be calling openly and
aggressively for the league to expel. Daniel Snyder. Will you
know what? He doesn't get the benefit of
the doubt that comes from the luck that that shined on him.
In that moment. All those people got lucky. He got lucky.
Yeah, he's response, right? Ultimately for what happened.
That's why I think he should be gone because if if, if they
hadn't gotten so
lucky because of the negligence, that that flows
back to the fact that He's the owner of that building
of those seats of that railing.
He should suffer the same consequence. He would have suffered
if there had been a serious outcome. That's why I feel so
strongly about it. He shouldn't get a pass because the hand of
God intervened to keep someone from getting killed. Yeah.
I hear you there Mike, you know, I know I know I
wasn't
I took a weak stance there when you asked me before, if
I agreed with you, I get where you're coming from. From,
I think it's totally justifiable to have those those thoughts.
There's no doubt, and unless he's got
a lot of free passes here, you know, he's certainly not
helping the shield. That's for sure. He's not helping the NFL
game right now, with some of the actions of the way that
organization has been run. And some of the things that have
come to light
here, over the last year and a half, two years, whatever it is
now at this point, but, you know, it goes back a little bit
to the greed conversation that we have here in this country.
I mean it, as I mentioned yesterday, I think that was
the first thing.
I really realized about the video,
when I saw it for the first time. I think that was, you
know, Sunday evening. It's just a, I have been in that Stadium
a few times. I know that tunnel
not telling used to not be that tight.
But you know, we're in the age of. We got to squeeze every
last dollar out of everything and everybody and we got
a screw them over and we got a screw them over to the maximum
extent while we spend the minimum
on doing these types of things. And that's where I get pissed
off. Off as an ex-player as a fan. As somebody, that loves
the NFL that really freaking bothers me
and I hear what you're saying. You're getting there. I know
mayor. I know I understand your thoughts by 9:00. I guess
I feel guilty. I feel guilty saying anybody should be get
fired or get. Yes. I know, I know, but I shouldn't
what a shit. What if it? What a shame. If he were forced to
sell the tea. I know you're right. Ollars. I what a shame,
look, you have a bake sale for him. Look, you do. I don't want
to like the devil on my shoulder just Getting me going
here. You
having a bake sale for him? Because I know the secret
ingredients of your baked
brownies. Well for the bake sale, okay, buyers may sell by
will sell more ads, loves us, a
will be able to charge a premium on mine.
What'll happen is
they'll eat one of yours,
and then they'll want to eat a lot of money. Yeah, exactly.
I have to take work. All right,
okay,
but but, you know, in all seriousness,
it,
It was very fortuitous
for everyone involved. That it wasn't a ridiculously
serious and Grave outcome
and you can it can you imagine
the conversations that would have been had on our show and
elsewhere Monday? Tuesday, Wednesday, and Beyond if
someone had gotten killed in that or if Jalen hurts had
simply not done that quick little hop step right to
the right
and avoid having his left leg, get hit by that railing, with
hundreds of pounds of pressure. Are swinging it
into the ground and good for Jaylyn hurts to continue
to shine a light on it.
And let's hope the NFL
doesn't just dangle bright shiny objects in our faces
and hope this goes away. Because it's bad for PR, sometimes
things that are bad for PR bad for PR for a reason. And maybe
what you need to do is deal with the underlying problem and
why have these issues one after another that are bad for PR
that are all emanating from the same person
when you can just
when you can just get rid of him.
What, you know, at some point.
That's what. What hit me yesterday?
What are you gaining from keeping him around? What are
you gaining from? Getting rid of him?
I mean, it's a no-brainer at this point and Chris something
Serena Williams mentioned. Last night. I wrote about this at
PFT. If I'm FedEx at some point, I'm saying, get my
company name. The hell off at stadium.
II understand that thought till I get it, I mean, listen, this
goes back to some of the conversations we had when you
know, we were talking about the Washington franchise and you
know, the lawsuits and the emails and all of that,
you know, to where
we were questioning. I don't understand why the NFL is going
to Such Great Lengths, you know, to, to help this guy out.
Now. I know we got to the the final, you know, thought was
because of Precedence. Right. Waited. They didn't want to
Hey, open up Pandora's Box for all these owners. Your we'd
have issues everywhere. I understand that, but yes,
the way the organization has been run over the last few years.
It's not been a good look for the NFL,
and it's certainly turn some people off.
There's no doubt about that. And there's been people
mistreated. Let alone, those fans that fell down. We know
there's a lot of ex-employees and other people that have
worked for that organization that,
you know, don't exactly talk about it as a great experience.
They're working there and
Mike, you make a lot of good points and I don't understand
why the NFL,
you know, continues to,
you know, kind of placate I guess to a degree to Daniel
Snyder and sweep things under the rug.
And I'm glad you mentioned that because I get emails from a lot
of people saying, don't let the Washington football. Team.
Workplace investigation. Don't let that die. Keep talking
about it. The problem is if there aren't developments if
there isn't news. Yeah, it's hard to
wedge it into the conversation. Well, here's an opportunity to
wedge it into the conversation. You mentioned that we had
gotten to the point that they weren't trying to protect
Daniel Snyder
by brushing all of this under the rug by hiding all of this
information. They're trying to avoid other owners
from being in a similar situation where
they can be accused of things that they either did, or maybe
they didn't do but somebody's embellishing because there's
a lot of power that you now hold over. These oligarchs that are
used to being the ones who hold the power
but my thinking evolved based upon an op-ed that was
published by the way.
Washington. Post a couple of weeks ago, a former employee
pointed out that Brian La femina, who was the CEO of
the Washington football team for about 8 months, a couple of
years ago, who came from
eight years, I believe with the league office
that the claim was made in this op-ed that he was one of
the few that tried to fix the situation. And he got fired
because of it now, if that's true.
Yeah. Chris, it dawned on me
that what's really going on here and I've mentioned,
possibly made mentioned this before, but I think
Bears, underscoring, it
right now, since we're talking about issues and dysfunction
with the Washington football team. I think that the league
Is doing everything. It can to keep the details secret because
in this is my hunch. Yeah,
Brian La femina. When he realized how bad things were
in that workplace.
He told people the league office about it and they didn't
do anything about it. Right. Right. I hear you there and and
there's there may be some of those emails out there that
would look innocuous on the surface because I
don't have coarse language in there. Like the stuff that got
Jon Gruden
fired de facto by the Haters, but you could construct a case
that the NFL knew
and didn't act and that may be why
the
the NFL is working so hard and willing to advance, such
facially implausible and that's the kindest way possible. I can
say BS reasons for not making that information available and
not being transparent. It's part of our to do learning to
65 million dollars. Ya
know. Sometimes you get to yuck it up with Peyton and Eli and
sometimes you have to stand up there and answer some tough
questions and provide with the
Straight face, ridiculously implausible answers. It's part
of what you're getting paid for. Yes. That's that's, that's
a tough day on the job. But you you power through it
and you get your 65 million dollars and that's why you're there
one of the reasons why are there. So
so look, I like your eyes.
We don't know but I you know the way you connect dots and
I know you said it at the time.
I hear you. But what you're saying there? I'm I certainly
can get behind that and I think there's some logic to that.
They realized how dysfunctional was and
They kind of just didn't do anything in doing,
right? That makes sense, to why you would want to hide things
now. And certainly kind of get everybody just to gloss over it
move on
because they don't want to be,
you know, held held accountable for knowing and not doing
anything. Like you're talking about. We saw some of the Jeff
past Bruce Allen emails. Yeah. Wonder if there's some email,
we're passionate. Hey, this law femina, guys,
but he's saying stuff's going on, you know, we
better, we better make sure you get things, you know,
I straightened out. Yeah, who knows? Who knows? Who knows?
They don't want us to know what those
I've I said this for months, they are going to these
ridiculous lengths to hide
the evidence because they are hiding
something else big and hopefully let's bring it back
to jail and hurts and what happened on Sunday. Hopefully
folks in Congress
who have been pursuing, this information will be emboldened
by what happened on Sunday and they will feel, it's even more
justifiable to keep pushing and pushing and pushing because of
the fact
that there is an entire Tar pit of dysfunction
in Washington, tracing to the top of the organization
that needs to be rectified and they have they have
something
that they can use to try to
pursue information that could, maybe, maybe just maybe get
the NFL to get to the point where they realize their interests
are best served by moving on from Daniel Snyder.