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The MMQB NFL Podcast

The Washington (Fill-in-the-Blanks) | Weak-Side Podcast

The MMQB NFL Podcast

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Sports, Football

3.9944 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Weak-Side podcast, Conor and Jenny discuss options for the Washington football team's new name. Red Tails? A Hog varietal? No mascot at all?

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0:00.0

Hello and

0:05.0

it is jenny Brentus I'm here with Connor Orr and it is July in the NFL calendar which is normally pretty quiet

0:12.0

but yet again we have another news break

0:15.3

this week to talk about last week at this time we were talking about can Newton

0:19.7

now we are talking about Washington undergoing a thorough review of its team nickname that is a racial slur and it seems imminent or inevitable is perhaps a better word that they will change at the name at

0:35.8

this point. Snyder has been dug in for years but finally mounting pressure

0:40.3

from corporate sponsors as everything in America Connor, money talks, money has finally

0:46.4

pushed this to the precipice. Actually, we were talking about this a little bit on last week's

0:50.1

week's week's side pod to the second episode of the week we said that it would have to be

0:55.8

a financial push for him and then shortly thereafter we have FedEx this one of the

1:01.4

minority owners and also the naming rights holder of the stadium, spoke up,

1:07.0

wanting the names to be changed.

1:09.1

Nike has taken down merchandise from its website until there is a name change. So what we're going to talk about today

1:16.2

is something that Connor wrote for the MMQB potential new names. What direction will Washington go from here? And you had a lot of good

1:26.0

ideas, Connor. Shall we go through them one by one or do you want to talk about your

1:31.8

favorite one first? Yeah, let's go through the one by one

1:35.0

one first? Yeah let's go through the one by one because I think it's like I lumped

1:36.4

them into like a couple different categories and I think what

1:40.7

Washington is going to end up doing here is, well, to be clear, here's what I think they should do

1:46.3

and then we'll get into what they will probably will do.

1:48.9

What they should do is take the year off, right?

1:52.3

I referenced on Twitter, you know, I often go up to West Point

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