If the Commanders leaked Jon Gruden’s emails, then Dan Snyder’s vengeance ended his NFL ownership
... Publicly, everyone denied having anything to do with it. Privately, it turns out there was a significant accusation by the NFL, one that appeared to put the onus for the leaks onto the Washington franchise. An allegation that, if true, would mean that the person most responsible for Dan Snyder’s downfall is the person we suspected all along.
Dan Snyder.
What is Snyder's connection to the Gruden emails?
Thursday’s
revelations from a 79-page congressional report did nothing to diminish that belief, with the House Oversight Committee publishing findings that got right to the point in the title of the document: “Conduct Detrimental: How the NFL and the Washington Commanders Covered Up Decades of Sexual Misconduct.” It contained a multitude of allegations that walk the reader right into Snyder’s office and then proceeds to empty all the garbage cans on his desk.
The report is most appropriately summed up by this paragraph: “The results of the Committee’s investigation, as laid out in this report, are clear: sexual harassment, bullying, and other toxic conduct pervaded the workplace at the Washington Commanders and were perpetuated by a culture of fear instilled by the Team’s owner.”
One nugget buried on page 42 should be of particular interest. It goes all the way back to those Gruden emails, which can arguably be described as the crack that eventually led to Snyder’s crumbling ownership reign. Because one of the undeniable truths of this entire mess for Snyder was that in the late summer of 2021, he appeared to be on the verge of surviving another investigation and the umpteenth round of intense scrutiny and criticism.
Then the Gruden emails leaked in October and everything changed....
It’s still just Allen testifying to an allegation that Friel made to him and there is no mention of evidence that was furnished to back it up. That said, it’s one hell of a wild allegation, if only for the fact that it stimulated total legal chaos for Snyder in the aftermath. Should he eventually sell his team, those leaked emails should be remembered as arguably the most significant turning point in the effort to get Snyder out of the league....
Leaked emails could ultimately lead to Snyder's downfall
It would basically paint Dan Snyder in the role of Viktor Tupolev, the Russian naval commander who accidentally sunk his own submarine in the movie "The Hunt for Red October." Tupolev chased down his former mentor, Marko Ramius, and fired a torpedo to send his friend to the bottom of the ocean, only to watch that same torpedo circle back and destroy his submarine as one of his officers pronounced, “You arrogant ass. You’ve killed us.”
... Whether there are breadcrumbs between the two has not been proven. Nor is there evidence that this is why Friel was pointing at the team as the source of the leaks. However the leaks happened, the fallout is the real story at this point.
That part is less conjecture. It can be measured in not only Thursday’s congressional report, but the litigation brought by District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine, the forthcoming investigation from Mary Jo White (which will be the third significant probe into Snyder and his franchise), the Gruden lawsuit against the NFL and potentially other pieces of litigation yet to be revealed.
At the center of them all: Vengeance, power and Dan Snyder.
. . . or not. 
Definitely the 4th stringer. The 3rd stringer MAY be thinking: 'Cool, adequate pay and low risk of getting injured in an already failed year, I'll take it.' 
Go football!
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True, but still.
GO Lions!
