Thom Loverro wrote a scathing piece in the Washington Times this week calling Commanders team president Jason Wright the “Chief Blunder Officer,” and this is a snippet of what he told Chris Russell on The Team 980 Friday afternoon about giving Wright a pass for any mistakes he has made in that role because of the tough circumstances:
“The first two or three, okay, but after that, if he was any kind of business leader, he should have had people in tow realizing there’s only one voice, and it’s his – and if you can’t follow that, we’ll get someone who can. They never operated like an organization that had any cohesion.”
Loverro thinks the Commanders’ new owners should clean house and start with Wright and the business side, even as much as Wright is trying to cozy up to
“Look at all the blunders on Wright’s watch, and now he’s promoting all they’ve done for the next regime,” Danny said. “You were here at one of the worst times possible, but also at one of the best times possible, and anyone could capitalize on Dan Snyder selling the team. There have still been plenty of missteps under his leadership; I’m sure he’s not proofreading everything, or it’s his fault the check bounced for the 50/50, but you’re the big boss – when you get the big check, you have to bear some of the responsibility when things go bad underneath you.”
“I think when he was hired, it was a bad job, a mission impossible,” Grant said. “Now, I’m not giving them an out for things they’ve done badly or dropped the ball on – don’t ever do anything involving Sean Taylor again while you’re team president, your group can’t handle it – but I will go to my grave thinking 2/2/22 was one of the biggest letdowns of my lifetime.”
That’s because, instead of pomp and circumstance and anything remotely trying to bridge eras, it was a name change with less fanfare than your middle school best friend now going by their middle name.
“Doug Williams, he’s unequivocally a legend, but for my generation, he’s just a guy who played football here once upon a time,” Grant said, “and it’s just him in a folding chair saying, ‘we’re the Commanders.’ I’ll never forgive that was the name my kids will remember forever, and they decided in real time who was gonna tell them? That killed me.”
That said, there have been some mistakes…but is that a function of the environment?
“Yes, they screwed some stuff up – but nobody would’ve done well, and we should see what they’re capable of in a situation where they have a grown-up to answer to,” Grant said. “I disagree with blowing them out right away – I think everyone should get this season, so Harris can oversee them and see what they can do without Dan.”
“That’s a very reasonable opinion, and what I think will happen because of how late this sale being finalized will be,” Danny replied. “If you want business stuff now, you need those folks in place capitalizing on this ‘not Dan Snyder’ momentum. They’ve gone through all the missteps and lack of organizational knowledge, but we’re here now, and this is the best option Harris has.”
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