Brian Davis joined the Sports Junkies on Wednesday morning to discuss everything surrounding his $7 billion bid for the Commanders, which drew reactions from hosts on both 106.7 The Fan and The Team 980 ranging from “this doesn’t make sense” to “nothing here adds up.”
Well, later in the afternoon, Craig Hoffman opened his show lamenting a Twitter thread he had put out shortly before show time with some information that implied Davis was indeed a fibber at best and a fraud at worst, instead simply saying the interview made him “sad.”
“Brian Davis said a lot of things, and I listened to the interview to see what he had…and I walked away with two things: the desire to do some light journalism, and sadness,” Craig said to open his show. “I’m going to try not to do things here that I did on Twitter, because when you say the guy is a joke and a fraud, you never know what he has going on. But what I will do is parse the information, and I think we’re on the way for facts to lay themselves out.”
And so, first on that agenda was Davis’ claims of wealth.
“Brian Davis claims he is worth a lot of money, that’s it’s new, and that it came from partners or investors,” Craig said. “He claims it’s $20 billion in a holding company and $10.5 billion in his bank account – but none of that will pass muster with the NFL, because they want to prevent someone being leveraged to where the asset they’re buying is their wealth. That’s why this matters.”
Craig also mentioned the numerous lawsuits against Davis and their statuses as a reason why the bid is “dead on arrival” even if Dan Snyder simply sees dollar signs and agrees to send the bid to the NFL – but there was a lot more to unpack.
“Brian Davis didn’t stop there, and that’s what gave me the itch to do some journalism today,” Craig continued. “One of my favorite phrase from journalism school is that ‘if your mom tells you she loves you, you better go check.’ So, I can’t verify his bank accounts, but I can call over to PG County, where he says he’s working on investing a billion dollars as part of the Blue Line Initiative, and see if they’ve ever heard of the guy – and the answer was no.”
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To Hoffman, the idea ‘at its best’ is to simply get more attention on to an underserved community, Prince George’s County, which ‘has been screwed a lot over the years, including by the team.’
“Even if Davis knows his bid is DOA, if he’s trying to get attention, it’s an odd means to justify the end, but I can at least see what he’s doing,” Craig said. “But Brian Davis claims to be on the verge of investing $1 billion here, and on Feb. 28, there was a major investment by five black investors, none of whom are named Brian Davis. And, the folks I talked to over there said they’ve never heard of him until this morning, and the only reason the county executive he mentioned on air is familiar with him is because they went to Duke together, and they haven’t talked in any official capacity.”
More sleight of hand from Davis, it seems, and the proof of that kills his credibility even more.
“The idea that Brian Davis is doing all these things, and this could be a means to justify an end, falls through immediately,” Craig said. “He’s mentioned this elaborate plan, but no one in PG County has seen it. You can’t just submit a bid to the NFL and say you’re going to do things if you don’t have the approval to do any of it.”
“I would say this in summary: it could be a Ponzi scheme, or something deeper with Brian Davis on a personal level, or anything in between,” Craig said. “But what it’s not is serious, through the lens of being someone who could potentially buy the Washington Commanders. The biggest impact he could have is Dan Snyder decides to make things difficult for the owners and ticks off Josh Harris, who is the only viable bidder and has been for months.”
Craig flat out said Josh Harris “has won the team” and teased an interview later in the show with WUSA’s Eric Flack, who has new information on a lawsuit filed against Davis just last month, and says that said interview will mark a milestone.
“After we talk to Eric Flack, we’re not talking about Brian Davis on this show, and none of you should really spend your time on him, either,” Hoffman said. “That was a great get by the Junkies this morning, and I get why they did it, but all Brian Davis’ words did was get him into more trouble than he already was, because there are people who will actually do the work to check into things – and as it checked out, none of that actually checked out.”
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