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A $60 million fine will not teach Dan Snyder or other NFL owners a lesson

[Dan Snyder] is paying a 60 million fine on his way out the door... which hilariously reduces the value of the team to 5.9 billion. So that'll teach him a lesson. He only made 5.1 billion profit off this sale. So owners will think twice before fooling around with the books.

Snyder was fined $60 million following the Mary Jo White investigation, but he did indeed profit billions on the sale, making the fine negligible in the grand scheme.

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Jul 21, 2023
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If I owned an NFL team, I would absolutely override my scouts to draft players based on 'vibes'

If I were, if I owned a team, I'd be like, you know, they'd have a draft board. I'd be like, no, that guy lost me money in a College Bowl game. That guy like, yeah, he's pretty sick. And I would definitely put my foot down and be like, I want that guy... understand I watched him once and it was awesome.

This is a subjective statement about Big Cat's hypothetical management style.
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Jul 21, 2023
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Jim Irsay is a hero for being the NFL owner who finally catalyzed the removal of Dan Snyder

Major shout out to Jim Irsay because who would've ever thought that Jim Irsay would've been the one that got this ball rolling when he sat in the golf cart smoking a cigarette outside the owner's meeting saying, 'I think the time has come to do something about Dan Snyder.' ... He's a hero. Thank you sir.

Jim Irsay's public comments in October 2022 were widely credited by NFL insiders as the first real crack in Snyder's armor among the ownership group.
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Jul 21, 2023
#20047
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The Colts' new 'Indiana Nights' uniforms are the ugliest in the NFL

The Colts' new uniforms today... it's hard to fuck up a uniform release. The Colts did it. They are the ugliest uniforms. I mean, good try guys, but they look like cops.

While subjective, the uniforms were widely mocked on social media for looking like high school or 'Duke' uniforms.

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The Ravens' fourth-quarter problems are moving earlier

Historically, the fourth-quarter Ravens have not been a great team. That fourth-quarter Ravens has started to creep its way into the third-quarter Ravens. And I think eventually it's going to keep creeping earlier and earlier in the game. I don't think it's going to get better because the defense does not look good.

This is a season-long assessment that can only be judged against Baltimore's eventual 2026 performance.
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Baker Mayfield has a real revenge game against Cleveland

This is like a big Baker revenge spot too. This is not a made-up Baker—I have a perceived slight against me because some team didn't trade for me when I was on the market. This is Baker Mayfield against Stefanski, and they haven't talked since he left Cleveland.

Whether the personal history materially affects the game is subjective, though the stated public grievance is part of the episode's context.
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The NFL should reduce the season to 16 games

I'm going to say it. I think that 17 games is too much. I like the scarcity. I like if you brought it back to 16, because the NFL's also been playing this game for a long time where they have to find safer-looking ways to do a dangerous activity.

The preferred NFL schedule is a policy judgment, though the player-safety rationale is grounded in the discussion's cited study.