Well, today's the day that it was supposed to happen
and it is happening. They selected the date of July 28th,
a few weeks back, but Daniel Snyder and the house oversight
committee could not come to an agreement on whether he would
testify under
subpoena, he wanted to testify voluntarily. There are some
important differences there. They have reached an agreement
that they'll give it a try. This explanation comes from
the Washington Post that basically,
he's testifying voluntarily and Not under subpoena but he's
committed to answer all their questions
and if they're not happy
with what he says if they think he isn't as candid as he needs
to be their reserve the right to subpoena him for further
testimony later Chris. I really thought he was going to float
around on his super yacht
and avoid a subpoena
through the rest of the year.
I think his desire to go to commanders games. Ultimately
took over and he realized hey if I'm back in the country
they're going to serve me with a subpoena.
So I better go ahead and work out something that will placate
these People for now and then we'll see how it plays out
late. I would think so or at least like, you know, stop
the finding of the Flames there with Washington, at least to
answer
some questions instead of this being like,
you know, the constant story for the next two months. When
he going to talk to them, when you talk to them, you
disrespected them. You didn't show up, you know, all
the different stories and things you hear about that. So
I think it's good for
not only Washington just before the NFL again, it's an owner.
There's been issues there.
No. It's he's supposed to be the
Owner and, and be the guy that acts the most appropriate. And
that's in question a little bit. And of course, the other
issues within the organization or dysfunctional to
the players, get held to a pretty tough standard all the time.
You know, we know that and the owner supposed to be better
than that. So, you know, he needs to be there, answer, some
of these questions and,
you know, hopefully he can
soothe over the the feeling some people have about their
team in the NFL and how some of these workplace environments.
Are
I don't think there's any good way out of The maze for him
though when he starts answering these questions, especially if
he's not going to hide behind non-disclosure agreements. The
thinking was he wanted to testify voluntarily?
Because under the terms of these nda's,
you can only Force someone to speak if your subpoenaed.
And if he tries that game, if they start asking about, for
example, the allegations against him from over a decade
ago, that resulted in a multi, not a multi-million but
somewhere under two million dollar settlement
reportedly. And he says, I can't talk about that. It's
subject to a confidentiality agreement, then he's buying
himself a subpoena. So he may just be trying to buy himself
time
to find a way to answer some of these questions and get them
off his back but even the questions that he will answer.
I just don't know how it goes well for him and what it's
going to be as a deposition, they'll be a transcript that
they ultimately make available. They made available other
transcripts of other Witnesses who testified via deposition.
It's not going to be something you can watch on C-Span and
an open meeting room
but still
He's answering questions under oath.
If he lies, he's got a problem. And if he tells the truth in
response to the right question, he may have a problem as well.
But the backdrop against all of this is Chris, I don't think
the NFL has the stomach
to take this guy on. I said it time. And again during Hiatus
on PF T OT, the League's afraid of him. They don't want to
fight him.
They know that he will fight tooth and nail and then he may
fight dirty. He may have some other stuff that
he could share.
With reporters about other owners. Because there are still
people who believe. And I'm not saying this is a fact, I'm
saying, there are people who
believe that the person who owned the servers on, which
the Jon Gruden emails were sent and received
or received. At least
he's the one. Some believe that was responsible for those
emails being leaked and brought down Jon Gruden, and it may
have been the ultimate warning shot
to anybody else who may want to mess with him.
I may have some stuff on my servers.
That I can use to take you down to. Yeah, I hear you. I mean
they had their signs of maybe he does fight dirty and you
don't want to mess with them. I can understand the league being
scared of them. I got to think they'll the league
has encouraged him to make this step though right? Don't you
think they'd want him to go in front of Congress and answer
some of these questions just to kind of unless they want to
unless they unless they hope he steps in a big enough pile of
crap
that they don't have to
they don't have to
be the ones to force him to sell that other circumstances.
You know, like being prosecuted for perjury would force him to
sell.
I just think that their approach to Snyder is don't say
a word. Don't do a thing. That there was no public pressure
applied to him
to try to testify. Now maybe behind the scenes,
they told him you really don't have a choice here.
It's only going to get worse unless you are going to float
around on your boat until the Congress changes in
the Republicans take over. If they
Prevail and take control in the investigation ends, they've
already said it's going to end if they take control, but
I don't think I think the league doesn't know how to deal with
him. Him
and it does seem that way. It does the, you know,
it's going to be interesting to see how it all plays out. But
yeah, I don't it doesn't seem like they want to mess with him
and I think to your point I think the main point is
as you've been saying all along that
a lot of these owners and teams probably have some dirty laundry
and they're afraid to open Pandora's Box here and mess
with Daniel Snyder to where it opens up all of their Pandora's
boxes and they got issues and now the whole league has issues
and it seems like that's why they're kind of
Being delicate with Daniel Snyder to a degree.
Yeah, people think that this commanders investigation and
the results and the recommendations have been
covered up to help Snyder. I think they've been covered up
to help anyone else that may find him or herself in the same
position that Snyder
is now.