Holy shit the redskins are aliens:
here's Doug Williams:
1.) Doug Williams says top Redskins officials were united in their decision to claim Reuben Foster: "Nobody that was in my room was thumbs down."
--> so they're all complicit and none of them has any conscience...
2.) Williams on the blowback: "Basically what you’re doing here is you’re taking a high-risk chance. The high risk was the beat-up that we’re going to take from PR. We understood that from a PR standpoint, and we’re taking it."
--> what terrible word-choice
3.) Williams on talking to Foster's former teammates: " It wasn’t like we gotta talk to all five. The two that we did talk to know him very well. Not that that makes the decision on whether we make the move or not; we’re just trying to get some insight into the young man.”
--> what a great idea - let's get character references from his college buddies... and what's crazy is the redskins didnt even look into the charges or talk to tampa police about the investigation (the eagles did and decided they wouldnt bother with a waiver claim)
4.) Williams on the criticism: "I could sit here, and I won’t, name a bunch of teams that took on players that got a lot of baggage that nobody’s saying anything about. You can’t get into nitpicking what they do and what you do. You gotta look at it from your standpoint."
--> because doing something wrong is ok because someone else did the same thing first? what sort of rationalisation is that? i dont think they've really learnt anything because are they really talking about DV as if it's "baggage"... do they not remember the hoopla around Ray Rice at all?
5.) Williams on Foster's future: "The most important thing is, we’re hoping that things come out and it wasn’t the way that everything has been perceived. We don’t know that. We have to wait and see. If things are as bad as it’s made out to be, he might not get a chance to play."
--> this idea that it's ok if they wait and see is ridiculous - wait and see would be to let him go unclaimed, let the process play out and then consider signing him as a free agent...
6.) Williams on the larger moment: "“We’ve got people who are in high, high, high, high places that have done far worse, and if you look at it realistically, they’re still up there,” he said. “This is small potatoes [compared to] a lot of things out there."
--> is this supposed to be a justification? and calling DV "small potatoes" is outrageous... and i know i said it above but since when does someone else doing something wrong make it ok for you to do something wrong?
this interview should genuinely make him (and most of the top execs in that building) fireable
how is this diseased thinking still running massive organisations in a 1st world country?
im actually livid - it's a disgrace
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