As Drab and the crew behind the glass played another banger back from break to celebrate Dan Snyder’s departure, this time “Good Riddance” by Green Day, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio was waiting on the hotline to give his take on Snyder selling the team.
“Congratulations that your long, not quite national nightmare is over,” Florio joked as he came on. “How dare you be ungrateful with the two Wild Card wins he delivered in the last quarter-century? What more do you want?”
Jokes aside, Florio wondered why there are reports that the “done deal” is still wide open, based on ESPN reports, and if Snyder’s personality is such that he’s going to try to squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone that is the sinking Commanders.
“Reports are that Steve Apostolopoulos is still in play – why can nothing be easy with Daniel Snyder? Does he enjoy making things as difficult as possible? Why can’t they land this plane in normal fashion? I’ve heard there’s maybe some last nugget that Daniel Snyder is trying to get…if there’s another bid, do we just do an auction and give each guy a paddle to keep making bids? This whole thing is just weird.”
Florio had some thoughts on what fans might expect with Harris as an owner, pointing to how both the Sixers and Devils have improved greatly in his tenure, although “you don’t know what you’re going to get.”
“The best owners are present but not actively involved,” Florio said. “Chris Simms has said there’s a different vibe when the owner is present, but that doesn’t mean that the owner is there stirring the stew so to speak. One of the problems the Dolphins have had under Stephen Ross is that the boss hasn’t been there to set the tone. You don’t want them to be there telling people what to do with the football operations, but it’s important for them to at least be there and trust the experts you hired to run the football team.”
When asked about the Commanders’ experts, Florio said he thinks Ron Rivera gets one more year and, barring a deep playoff run, the new owner will clean house – and that need for “all new everything” might be one reason Jeff Bezos balked at buying the team?
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“Why do I want to buy a team that needs so much work to restore it to what it used to be, when I can wait on the Seahawks or some other team that doesn’t?” Florio asked as if he were Bezos.
And as for the fact that Tilman Fertitta tapped out at $5.6 billion because that’s what Forbes valued the franchise for?
“I don’t care what Forbes values something at. You know what something is worth? It’s worth exactly what someone will pay for it, and these teams are appreciating assets,” Florio said. “They’re lighting extra-large cigars in Denver because the team they bought for $4.65 billion looks like a steal, because the next team that sold eight months later went for 30 percent more! Soon enough, eight to ten billion is going to be the baseline standard for your average team, and there’s going to be a point where prices go to a level that puts ownership groups in a tough spot and they’ll have to sell.”
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