The NFL Thread 2: 1. T Swift

I’d like to throw you a heart here, but Mr. Kollmann repeated ‘this year’ twice in the same sentence. The massive grammar nit in me is winning this battle handily.

MrWookie · November 10, 2022, 5:40am

https://twitter.com/SharpFootball/status/1590489624518234112

Marksman · November 10, 2022, 2:00pm

Lol PIT.

That’s crazy.

TheHip41 · November 10, 2022, 5:32pm

Still have as many wins as Dan Campbell

wheatrich · November 10, 2022, 6:20pm

I remember some people were arguing coming into the season that finally rodgers will look in the direction of other players

also the Raiders offense isn’t better this season if at all with him

goreo · November 10, 2022, 6:47pm

Okay you win. Devante Adams is nothing special and his absence is not responsible for the deterioration of the Packers offense

dlk9s · November 10, 2022, 6:54pm

To be fair, he does look in their direction. He just doesn’t throw it in their direction.

goreo · November 10, 2022, 6:54pm

Again, it’s mainly an ownership problem

Marksman · November 10, 2022, 7:48pm

STOLEN FROM r/nfl

Excerpts from the Complaint filed by the DC Attorney General’s office

Par. 36: “For decades, Snyder has cultivated an environment within the Team that glorifies sexual harassment and punishes victims for speaking out.”

Par. 39: “The toxic culture, created and condoned by Snyder, permeated every corner of the Team, leaving no safe avenue to get help. The misconduct did not just go to the top; it originated there.”

Par. 40. A former executive who worked at the team for 24 years stated that employees referred to Snyder as the “Chief Harassing Officer.”

Par. 46: In another incident in which a Team executive traveled with Snyder on his private plane, Snyder informed the executive that he had girls “lined up,” including one for the executive. When they arrived at the hotel, there were a number of women in the suite whom the executive had never met. Given that Snyder had flown the women in from another state, and that these women were physically affectionate with Snyder and the male employees Snyder had brought with him, the executive believed that the women were sex workers, which made him feel deeply uncomfortable. Again, having traveled privately with Snyder, he felt captive.

Par. 54: After purchasing the Team, Snyder brought the cheerleading program in-house, under his supervision. Snyder exercised control over everything, from which cheerleading candidates made the cut, to which photos were used in the cheerleader calendar, to how revealing the cheerleading uniforms would be. He regularly told people to keep the cheerleaders “skinny with big tits.”

Par. 60-61: Afterwards, Snyder directed Team executives to have employees and contractors edit videos together using footage of the cheerleaders from the calendar shoots—including the footage the cheerleaders had specifically requested not be shot. Snyder mandated that these videos include the “good bits,” which producers understood to mean unedited images of cheerleaders’ exposed breasts and pubic areas. These voyeuristic videos were reportedly scored with Snyder’s favorite songs and given directly to Snyder.

Par. 72 (about the NFL investigation): … the NFL entered into an agreement that functionally gave Snyder veto power over what parts of the investigation would be made public, allowed Snyder and the Team to wage a campaign to block Wilkinson from accessing witnesses and documents, and gave the public no full accounting of the investigation’s results. Taken together, Defendants’ actions reflect conduct contrary to what they had communicated to the public, undermining confidence in the results—confidence that Defendants assured would be restored by the investigation.

Par. 88-89: Days after publicly declaring that the NFL had taken control of the investigation away from the Team to ensure it was unbiased and fully independent, the NFL and the Team entered into a Common Interest Agreement (Agreement) that established their joint legal interest in upholding “the integrity of the Investigation and the defense of reasonably anticipated litigation.” It allowed the sharing of confidential information and communications and other privileged information both among themselves and with Wilkinson’s firm. In addition, the Agreement granted the Team and Snyder the ability to block the release of any “information or communications” that resulted from it, including what the public would ultimately learn about Wilkinson’s finding

Par. 94-95: Snyder and the Team attempted to hinder the investigation by preventing witnesses from speaking with Wilkinson. More specifically, Snyder and the Team sent private investigators to witness’s homes and intimidated them, engaged in abusive litigation to prevent witness participation, and offered additional money to former employees who had previously settled claims against Snyder. The NFL was aware of Snyder’s attempted interference with the investigation but allowed it to continue and downplayed its significance. Commissioner Goodell characterized Snyder’s abusive litigation and use of private investigators as “a little bit of tug and pull with particularly [sic] lawyers and law firms,” while publicly guaranteeing it did not interfere with Wilkinson’s work.