the Daniel Snyder would be discussed during the owners
only session.
Well, Jim irsay did the discussion publicly, he lit
the fuse before
the owners only session.
So right out of the gates, the aforementioned Jeff pass, who
was implicated in the email Scandal last year? Shut it
down. I'm told per source with knowledge of the situation.
Pash said we're not talking about this.
This in here and think about it.
Tanya Snyder is in the room. The
representative of Daniel now. I guess they could ask her to
leave like they did with Steve Ross at one point when they
were just oh no they did. It was Stan kroenke. I'm sorry
earlier this year when they were discussing what they're
going to do about the say about lawsuit, the st. Louis
settlement, they resolve that yesterday's Stan kroenke paying
the majority of the money.
But whatever they say you know if you're going to have
litigation
the Billionaire's start popping off at all Comes discoverable
as the lawyers say. You can take depositions of the owners
and say what did they say about Daniel Snyder
in the room? What did he say? What did she say? What did you
say? So Jeff. Pash, wisely, pulling the plug on any
private conversation. That really wouldn't stay private.
If there is lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit filed by
Daniel Snyder so that was smart. And
if Jim irsay hadn't gone off the way,
He had there's a good chance he would have gone off the way he
did in the room, right instead of outside the room.
Hmm, that's interesting. It is
it makes sense and I think, you know, you said it right? It's
probably it's I would think the league really doesn't want
Daniel Snyder either. And then there are in that club that
you're talking about where
yeah we're determined again,
get them but we're also determined to
cross the t's and Dot the I's the right way. So something we
say or do doesn't come back to bite Us in the butt here. When
it comes litigation time
at, does that make sense? I was smart by Jeff bash. Maybe that
was.
Maybe that was part of the plan here. Maybe, maybe somebody.
And you know, I don't know again. They just I find him too
much credit. I know right, my friend, I know sometimes
it right. Sometimes stuff just happens, there's no plan. Yeah,
just life unfolds.
Here's what I keep going back to though Chris
July 1 2021, this was masterful by the league office because
July 1 is the day. That they announced the punishment of
the Commander's not Dan Snyder
of the commanders
and it was buried at the bottom of the announcement that Snyder
would be stepping aside and there were
reports and contradictions as to whether it was voluntary or
involuntary and whether he could come back with
the Commissioners approval, or, without the Commissioners
approval. It's just been weird from the get-go.
But July 1. It was a Thursday,
the 4th fell on a Sunday. So
I remember this vividly,
they
they brushed all the evidence under the rug, they had
a conference call with reporters and they said because we have
promised anonymity to some of these former employees. We're
not going to reveal any of the facts and from the get-go,
I was like, what is this, right?
Why you can just change names? I wrote article after article
about this, all you do is change the names. The Andrew
Cuomo stuff was going down right about the same time. They
changed the names of the people who wanted their identities to
be.
That and not be subject to reprisals. So,
they and they timed it perfectly
because Friday the second Saturday, the 3rd Sunday,
the fourth Monday, the 5th. A lot of people had Friday and or
Monday off, right? World didn't plug back in until Tuesday.
Five days later hard reset in the summertime. Nobody's paying
attention. It never became a thing
and it may have never become a thing. But for the Jon Gruden
emails of roughly a year ago. So I say all this Chris because
at the time,
Confused and I still am confused. I'm confused about
a lot of things but why are they protecting this guy?
Why they don't like him?
He's the least popular of all owners. Right without question.
Yeah, I've talked to enough people in and around the league
over the past 21 years to know they don't like him, right?
Okay yep. So they're not protecting him for him.
My first thought was
there protecting themselves against putting
Other owners in a situation where disgruntled employee
starts making accusations and that's the first domino in
the next thing. You know, you got an investigation where it's
like getting audited by the IRS,
I hadn't do anything wrong but I really don't want anybody
poking around in my stuff to look for something because
they're going to feel compelled to find something that maybe
isn't there. So, none of these owners want a Beth Wilkinson
Mary Jo White investigation looking for anything because
they may find something, or they may
think they found something when they didn't, we just don't want
that. So, that's what I thought at the time was the
Nation. We don't want this precedent to be used against us
but then I
started to realize at some point over the last year or so that
they just afraid of the guy.
This was what was encapsulated by the ESPN report. They're
afraid of what he will do. They're afraid of what he knows
and that's why some believe that he leaked, the Jon Gruden
emails, it's a hell of a warning shot, whether it was
just retribution
because he was pissed, what happened to him
and he's got these and
maybe he just got a bad taste in his mouth. Jay Gruden. And
his time is cut, whatever. Whatever it was, the, you know,
the showing of The Sword
to the rest of the league,
don't mess with me. And that's what culminated in Thursday's
report from ESPN, this idea that he believes he's got some
sort of protection because they're afraid of it and and
that's what I keep coming back to
they're treading lightly because they know they're going
to get a fight in Port and that he's going to fight dirty
either in court or out of court. That that's what they
believe. I'm not saying he's going to,
I don't want to be sued.
Our. But I think they believe in they fear that, that's what
he's going to do that. That is the
best explanation for why they tiptoed on eggshells, in July
of 2021
and why they're being careful. Now, they know if they make
this move Chris, they're going to have one hell of a fight.
Yeah, I mean again I think that's why we're all tuned into
this a little bit,
it seems that way. Daniel Snyder from all evidence, from
all due accounts that we've seen, you know, through his
tenure. Yeah, he's willing to go scorched Earth. Her and
again yeah, you're not the only one that believes maybe or has
put out there. The fact that, you know,
allegedly or whatever else, whatever word you want. I don't
want, I'm suing me either that maybe he is the one that
released the Gruden emails and definitely, that's why
the NFL has been tiptoeing around this.
They're afraid. He's gonna expose people,
they're afraid, he's going to expose people. You've been
saying that from the start, they're afraid. It's going to
expose them that, of course, with the best Wilkinson thing,
they
Hmm, knew some of this crap was going on so that's the other
reason they didn't want to you know deal with that or you know
put it front and center during a hot media time or when Pete
you know what try to hit it. That July 4th weekend.
It's so I think there's a lot of things. They got to be
careful with here. They're trying to protect their butts
for more information coming out and they don't want to make it
look like. We kind of knew some of this stuff, but we kind of
just swept it under the rug point, right?
Excellent point that that his kind of flashed through my brain.
In the past 16 months or so.
That
at some point, someone's going to start asking the League.
What did you know? And when did you know and right? Why did you
let this mess faster? For as long as you did and
and it's occurred to me
and I don't know that there's any Merit to it but
Brian La femina who was the president of the organization
or had some title. Some big title on the business side of
the commanders and was only there like seven or eight.
Johnson got fired.
He's been mentioned by some of these former employees
as someone that they went to someone that knew what was
going on. Well, he came straight from the league office
and
how crazy is it to think
that? Once he leaves the league office
and goes into the Commander's organization known by
a different name at the time and starts
seeing all this stuff and experiencing it and getting
complaints from employees,
you've got a group of co-workers in the league
office. Is that you used to be with all the time. How do we
know there aren't emails where he says, my God, what a mess?
This place is why is nobody ever done anything about this?
Yeah, right. This place needs to be cleaned up and he's to be
gutted. It needs
to, we need, we need, we need that. We need new ownership
here. I can't believe this is as bad as it is, and then it
still continues for a certain period of time
before it all really hits the fan. So
I think your instincts are right?
There's an element of
when are the hard questions going to be directed back to us
for not taking action sooner. I
think that's very important. There's another issue here
that bubbled up yesterday
because Lisa Banks and
or is it?
Lisa Banks and Debra cats. I think that's it. Lisa Banks and
Debra cats. The two lawyers who represent more than 40, former
Washington employees issued a letter to Roger. Goodell
yesterday saying, hey,
we've read the ESPN, 10,000 word article and there's
something in there about
Dan Schneider, having a list of the names of enemies that he
has. And apparently he's gotten the names of the employees who
cooperated with Beck Wilkinson's investigation even
though that was supposed to be all secret.
And now now we know why people had private investigators
showing up at their house is after they spoke to Beth
Wilkinson. So the ultimate irony here, Chris
would be the NFL insisting on not making any of this
information public
waving. This flag of we're protecting the Privacy of
the individual employees and the truth being. If this is
the truth that somehow, the names got back to Daniel Snyder and
he still retaliated against them. Anyway, that's
the accusation. And these lawyers are threatening suit against
the league for failing to honor their promise to protect these
employees. If it's true, that the names Were Somehow provided
to Daniel Snyder through the league as to who cooperated
with the Wilkins.
Negation mean that if that's true. Do you think the league
is fixable? Is that? Well, I have tried I want to get is
a league that stupid like it if they are and I don't know,
I got to re-evaluate my whole thought of The Shield
if they gave gave the name. So to Daniel Snyder, I mean that's
where I would just make. What? Okay, wait, we got issues here.
We're not very smart are not as buttoned up as I thought,
I mean yeah it's crazy.
That is absolutely crazy. I mean I would like to think that
that didn't happen. And I'd like to think that if Daniel
Snyder did get the names, Because he's a billionaire and
he paid the right people to figure it out. And who knows?
They followed the investigators from the NFL to these places.
I mean maybe maybe that's what happened. But damn I mean if
that's the case, where the NFL gave the names to Daniel
Snyder,
well then crap, but maybe the whole league office needs to be
blown up and they got to figure out new leadership because that
would be the dumbest move ever.
That was another
comment that came from the Commander's spokesman
yesterday, denying anything about having the information.
So there's two sides to all of this and obviously anything
that is
directly or indirectly negative toward Daniel Snyder, there's
going to be an aggressive response. It's just Clockwork
at this point. You know, it's coming and, you know, he's
going to defend himself loudly and it's another reminder that
if you ever do make a move on him, there is going to be hell
and lawyers to pay.
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