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very intriguing article dropping on
saturday night from usa today jarrett
bell
quoting a couple of unnamed owners due
to the sensitivity of the situation
requesting anonymity one owner said that
the
group is counting votes toward a
possible ouster of daniel schneider 24
is the magic number not an easy number
to come up with because some of these
owners are going to be concerned that
whatever standard they apply to daniel
snyder is going to be applied to them at
some point in the future let's not make
it too easy to force someone to go sell
their business the other side of it too
snyder's gonna fight like hell and there
could be an anti-trust lawsuit where
snyder says hey
how dare these owners of businesses tell
me i can't own my business anymore
i've signed up for it because i have no
choice but this is wrong this is
improper they can't force me to sell so
there could be a huge fight coming out
of it chris but the news is and this
echoes things that we've reported
throughout the year
that snyder may be testing the patience
of his colleagues and they may be
getting to the point where they're ready
to do something apparently
they're getting there
and i think the key is not necessarily
the financial impropriety stuff although
that's being investigated the other key
is the tiffany johnston allegations that
mary jo white is investigating if they
can make anything stick to him on either
count it could be it for daniel
schneider yeah i i mean i i understand
it i mean listen honestly i'm i'm kind
of shocked it's taken this long to
kind of get to this point to where you
hear those type of rumors or things that
are out there
it's been a lot of issues out of
washington and i know jerry jones like
we talked about last week like any press
is good press or any news is good news i
don't know not necessarily with what
washington's had i mean
it's it's a look of dysfunction and then
i think like there's two things that i
point out or at least look at and i i
think you probably have the same view
here to where i just go
man i i mean
owners we're in the club together or
whatever this has got to piss them off
all right sorry london
the first one is
you know if the rumors again allegedly
we don't know the stuff but the the
gruning emails you know where all that
came from i mean that's just a bad look
for the nfl that set bad precedence i
think for other owners things like that
as well so that was kind of like whoa
what are we doing there and i know i i
think there is a faction again just
throwing it out there there's rumors
that people think that maybe that those
emails are released by washington and
snyder and that right right and people
people believe
listen
we don't want to step into a defamation
lawsuit here let me just say this a very
small universe of people had access to
the john gruden emails yes they came
from the 650 000 documents that were
deemed to be unrelated to the workplace
misconduct issues that were being
violated those 650 000 documents were
being and still are being zealously
protected by the nfl now some of them
may have gone to congress i don't know
because we still have no real
transparency however there aren't many
people that had them daniel snyder the
washington football team
they are within the universe of people
who had access to them because they were
on their servers so
it it
it's not some big stretch it's not some
big shock if the truth would be that
snyder or someone in his direction gave
those emails to the new york times and
the wall street journal and that would
be the ultimate irony that
it was over it was done
there was no
controversy there was no congressional
investigation there was no uproar over
lack of transparency it all came up
because of what happened with gruden if
they had just left gruden alone i'm not
saying they should have but my point is
when someone decided to weaponize those
if it was snyder or someone attached to
him that's what gave all this crap new
life and kept it going from october
through november december and into this
year and if it and if it brings him down
he only has himself to blame yeah that
and then the the if the so-called you
know
finagling of the books you know that we
discussed i mean over a month ago as far
as moving money around and you know not
giving all the owners their appropriate
share from a game by game basis and all
that i mean that to me would be like the
nail in the coffin there wait wait these
are distraction there's dysfunction
there we're having to answer questions
about it and what he's screwing us out
of money too like i would think if that
ends up being true or they get some
inkling that that was being done then he
is in in big trouble the commanders have
denied that mary jo white is
investigating those allegations as well
congress is looking into it attorneys
general from various jurisdictions are
as well one last point though because
there was a quote from bell's article
and you can see the article we have a
link to it at pft and we have some of
the quotes there
the idea and we've made this argument at
some point there are too many
controversies regardless of what the
truth is regardless of who's right or
wrong that's right at some point you've
just got too much smoke right that is
billowing around everything that we're
trying to do as a league it's too much
we'll find somebody who isn't constantly
going to be dragged down right by this
accusation and that accusation and
fundamentally look
you don't have a stream of accusations
made against somebody who is doing
everything the right way and everyone is
happy and everyone feels like they're
being treated properly people don't just
go out and gratuitously make accusations
over and over and over and over again
all sorts of different people
there's a common thread to all of it and
that common thread may be
maybe eventually out as an nfl owner we
shall
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