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Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast

Lack of Transparency at the Washington Football Team

Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast

NFL Business

Sports News, News

4.8607 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Former Washington Football Team employees Emily Applegate & Rachel Engleson join Andrew Brandt on a bonus episode of the Business Of Sports podcast. Emily & Rachel share their harassment experiences with the team and... Why they didn't file a complaint with Human Resources (8:32) Interactions (or lack of) with Dan Snyder (14:33) Participation in Beth Wilkinson's investigation (16:48) The lack of a written report (19:35) Who they think leaked the Gruden emails (24:57) Connect with the Pod Website:  https://www.andrew-brandt.com Andrew’s Sunday Seven Newsletter: https://www.andrew-brandt.com/sunday-seven Twitter: @AndrewBrandt Instragram: @AndrewBrandt2 Clubhouse: @adb719 Twitch.tv/andrewbrandtlive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, welcome to a bonus edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt.

0:04.2

Yesterday, if you heard, I had Lisa Banks on.

0:07.5

Lisa is the attorney that's representing so many former employees of the Washington football team,

0:13.4

and most of them, if not all, were interviewed by the team of Beth Wilkinson

0:18.0

when they investigated harassment, toxic workplace over the years at the

0:23.7

Washington football team.

0:25.4

If you haven't heard, that report never has seen the light of day.

0:28.0

It was an oral report given to the commissioner.

0:30.1

And yesterday in New York, the commissioner chose to answer questions about it in the middle

0:35.0

of a league meeting saying that he thinks it's been

0:38.2

appropriate, what punishments went out to the Washington football team, and how they didn't

0:43.8

release a report to protect the confidentiality of those who came forward. Well, there are a couple

0:48.4

of those who came forward that are joining me now and dispute a lot of what was said. Their courage,

0:53.9

they're sharing their story

0:55.4

in part two of my look inside the toxic culture

0:59.2

of the Washington football team.

1:01.1

I bring to you two former employees of that team

1:04.1

to share their experiences, who they think

1:06.6

will leak the gruden emails, the toxic environment

1:09.1

that they worked in at the Washington

1:11.6

football team. So without further ado, here's Rachel Engelson and Emily Appelke, two former

1:16.6

employees of the Washington football team. Welcome, ladies. Really appreciate you joining.

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