The Sports Junkies had Brian Davis on for most of the 8 AM hour on Wednesday, discussing his bid to buy the Commanders and everything involved with that, including the financing part and his mysterious lack of information on business ventures.
Depending on how you look at it, that interview could’ve either cemented his legitimacy as a buyer for the Commanders or just given folks more questions about it (EB fits in that latter half, it seems, if you listened to Junkies reactions), but as you might expect, the interview itself was the first order of business on the midday shows on both 980 The Team and 106.7 The Fan.
And when it comes to the former, well, Kevin Sheehan isn’t putting down any money soon to buy what Davis seemed to be selling.
“What’s that saying about only buying things you can understand, because they’re so simple to understand? I consider myself to be halfway capable of understanding of a lot of things, but I didn’t understand a lot of that,” Sheehan said. “But, it was entertaining at least. Listening to it, I almost felt like it was a skit or a bit, but I think the Junkies did a great job with a guy that didn’t give many straight answers.”
Sheehan did admit that Brian Davis “is very passionate if you take him at his word,” but that is hard because he talked in circles quite a bit.
“I had trouble tracking or understanding what he was saying in a lot of answers, and it seemed even he got into some things that were hard to unwrap,” Sheehan said. “You can see the love he has for the area, and that’s a nice thing, but I think Josh Harris went from -10000 odds before the interview to -30000 as a favorite after it.”
As for BMitch and Finlay on 106.7 The Fan, JP joked that he got to talk to an ESPN Draft analyst as “the big interview this morning” before he and Brian dove into the Junkies interview with Davis.
“There’s been reports about his offer, and I give him credit for coming out and talking about it,” JP said. “But after the interview, I called a few people I know in different circles, and by and large, everyone had the same reactions: there is no explanation for where the money is actually coming from.”
“The Junkies did a good job pressing him, and he got a little flustered when they did, but don’t come and talk to people if you can’t answer real questions," Mitchell replied. "What I heard was it’s my money, then he said investors, and when they pushed him, it was ‘my partners.’ Well, still, somebody gave you money, and this intellectual property thing? Ain’t too many people in the world whose IP is worth that kind of money.”
JP mentioned someone likened it to a shell game or Three-Card Monte, simply nothing more than sleight of hand disguised as a legitimate opportunity.
“Where’s the money? It’s with my investors. Who are the investors? They’re not investors, they’re partners. So where is the money, what have they paid you for? My intellectual property. That’s the circle,” JP said. “Well what do you have to show that’s real? There’s this thing in Durham, where there are no property records to prove that assertion.”
“If you sold it, how is it something you’re selling intellectual property on?” BMitch asked back. “You say you sold it for $200-some million…where does that $50 billion valuation come from?”
Perhaps Finlay summed it up for everyone the best: “None of this adds up.”
Listen to both show opens above to hear it all on Brian Davis!
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