Bombshell sexual harassment allegations in Washington come after week of online speculation

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🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Late on Thursday afternoon, the Washington Post released a bombshell report in which 15 former female employees of the Washington football franchise spoke about a culture of verbal abuse and sexual harassment that went largely unpunished, compounded by a seemingly nonexistent human resources department.Terez Paylor and Charles Robinson open the podcast on this late-breaking news after days of whispers swirled around the internet, speculating about this much-rumored story.In other league news, the deadline for franchise tagged players to work out extensions with their teams passed on Wednesday afternoon. As expected, Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott did not ink a long-term deal, but what does that mean for his future in Big D? (19:00)Derrick Henry of the Tennessee Titans got his extension just under the wire. How scared should other teams be that Tennessee locked up its quarterback and running back of the future? (33:20)After 72 players tested positive for coronavirus and J.J. Watt published a list of safety concerns to his Twitter account, Charles & Terez speak about the latest on where the league, teams and players are in terms of starting training camps (and the season) on time. (40:20)Stay up to date with the latest NFL news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooSportsNFL.Follow Charles @CharlesRobinsonFollow Terez @TerezPaylorTag your questions for the guys on Twitter with #YahooNFLPodcastCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Yes, sir, yes sir. Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast.
0:10.2	I'm Yahoo, Senior, yes sir. Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast. I'm Yahoo Senior
0:14.5	NFL writer Torez-Phaler. Here my main man, a fellow senior
0:17.7	and I'm writer Charles Robinson. And Charles, no question this week. We got a lot of
0:21.8	news to get to, but I will ask you how you're doing.
0:25.2	I'm lit. I'm not even going to lie right now. I mean we're coming off of this Washington
0:30.5	Post report about the Washington franchise, things that have been going on and I'm just
0:37.0	going to say up front, if you're a journalist or you're anywhere out there and you are on social media saying yes hey man I'm
0:45.6	hearing this and this and it's gonna be really bad and oh I saw people passing along
0:52.0	paying off refs I saw people passing along paying off refs. I saw people passing out, you know, stuff about sex parties and all this stuff. I just want you to know and I hope you own it. You played a big part in 15 women coming out and accusing
1:08.4	Washington's franchise of being an environment of serial sexual harassment and people actually being able to stand up and go,
1:18.0	oh man this is nothing, this isn't as bad as, oh it was way overhiked and all this stuff.
1:22.0	Just so you know so people
1:23.7	understand this there is an element in the business when you know really bad
1:29.0	news is coming sometimes you do counterintuitive and you leak things that aren't even coming.
1:33.7	So that when the news does come out, it doesn't look quite as bad as it really was supposed to be.
1:39.2	It's the same thing as when Terezant, well, not exactly the the same thing but it's similar to when Terez and I
1:45.7	our editor comes to us and says when's your story gonna come in you say two hours and
1:49.7	he says what two hours you go no actually it's just one hour. He's like, okay, just one hour. So I mean, this is just, if you if you played a part in this, I hope you are taking a deep look into yourself and why you would pass along rumors about another journalist's work that you can't verify, you don't know anything about it, that's
2:11.3	is ridiculous and yeah, you played a part in this now being minimized on social media
2:17.0	because it wasn't as bad as the bullshit that people were saying was gonna be in, which I bet you was planned.
2:24.0	People for the better part of a week now have been hinting that,
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