Maybe it’s not completely over. But it sure seems like the clock is running out on Commanders owner Dan Snyder.
Two weeks ago at the NFL’s fall meeting, commissioner Roger Goodell, in a special privileged meeting, addressed the room made up exclusively of owners and their families on Snyder’s status with a direct message—let the process play out. Goodell’s words came in the wake of Colts owner Jim Irsay’s calling for the league to consider removing Snyder as Commanders owner. And many in the room took a deeper message from the directive.
One, the thinking went that Goodell was basically asking the owners to trust that the league and its lead investigator, Mary Jo White, would land on the conclusion that most wanted, producing findings that would be enough to oust Snyder, who has cultivated a culture of sexual harassment allegations, as well as a toxic work culture on his watch as Washington owner. Two, they also saw Goodell’s words as a warning to Snyder, himself, that for better or worse, there was no stopping what was coming.
