The Harris Ownership Group has brought love back to Washington

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Grant and Danny are still in the honeymoon phase with the new ownership group and are happy to be talking about football and not off-field headlines.

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00:00Josh Harris was at practice,

00:02the entire ownership group it sounds like,

00:03made it out today.

00:04I liked that they still got a very nice welcome.

00:09I heard B. Mitch and Finley earlier today

00:10who have done a great job covering training camp on site

00:13for us here at 106.7 The Fan.

00:15And those guys were asking, JP brought it up,

00:18he said, when do you think the heroes welcome will subside

00:21and it's not going to be like a novelty

00:23of everyone cheering and chanting thank you

00:26as Josh Harris walks out?

00:27And I got to thinking about that driving in, Danny,

00:30I think it's going to be a while.

00:32As long as they're not bad or there's no off the field

00:37drama, turmoil, controversy

00:40that comes from the ownership group,

00:43even if you're just normal and competitive

00:46and not that good, that is such an upgrade for people.

00:50Many of them at training camp today

00:52haven't been at camping years

00:53because they refused to do anything

00:55that supported Dan Snyder.

00:57So just the idea that I'm allowed to watch games

01:00without feeling bad about it,

01:02that I'm allowed to go to the stadium

01:03if I haven't done that in years,

01:04that I can go to a practice and buy my kid a hat

01:07or a t-shirt when I swore that off,

01:09I got my thing back because of these people

01:12buying the team from Dan Snyder.

01:13So I think that's not going to go away anytime soon.

01:17They obviously have to win to be beloved.

01:20I'm sure Josh Harris at one point with the 76ers,

01:23when he took over, everyone was very excited

01:25and they don't have a title yet.

01:27I think they've done a good job.

01:28I think the process worked.

01:29We could debate that.

01:29I happen to think going from a terrible team

01:32to a team that has a chance winning 50 games every year

01:35is a pretty nice job well done in the front office.

01:38Having said that, if years from now

01:41they're not getting deep into the playoffs,

01:44I'm quite sure people will have a different feeling

01:46or just a different reverence or lust, love for this group.

01:50But right now it's more about Dan being gone still

01:53than them being here.

01:54So not surprised at all

01:56that they're still getting the big ovation.

01:57Yeah, and I don't know when the honeymoon ends.

02:00We asked this rhetorically a couple of different times

02:02and even opened up to calls at various points

02:04over the last year plus.

02:05I know that I'm not there yet, by the way.

02:07Going through a football season

02:09where there's no Dan Snyder was delightful.

02:10I can't wait for the next one.

02:12And I don't think they're going to be

02:12particularly good this year.

02:14They have a quarterback that I'm excited about

02:15and long-term that's the most interesting thing.

02:18But I don't know when that's going to rub off.

02:20I don't know when the novelty is,

02:21okay, now let's actually start trying to build something

02:24because they've done everything that I have ever asked for

02:26for the most part, right?

02:27There's still some things

02:28that I think they're missing the boat on

02:30and I disagree with them

02:30and would tell them so if they asked,

02:33they shouldn't ask by the way,

02:34but hiring a general manager

02:36and empowering that general manager to go build his staff

02:39but have the buck stop with him.

02:42Understand that you need to reach out to fans

02:46and engage them in so many different ways.

02:47They've been outstanding in the community.

02:49They have the football structure that I want.

02:51Even if I would have gone,

02:52hey, I might not have hired that head coach.

02:53I might not have gone about changing the name this way

02:56or dropping these little hints about the stadium, whatever.

02:58Those are regular football conversations

03:01and I will not take for granted

03:02that that's what we get instead of,

03:04okay, so the Eastern District of Virginia

03:06has an investigation but so does the state of Virginia

03:08and the federal court in DC does too

03:10but that doesn't count the harassment charge

03:11in the lawsuit based on-

03:12Are you talking about the harassment case

03:14or are you talking about the-

03:15No, the first harassment case.

03:16Investigation into the money

03:17that they scammed from the season ticket holders.

03:18The third harassment case because there are so many.

03:21We're not doing that anymore.

03:22We're just doing a football thing

03:23and it's so refreshing and so nice.

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