There remains a scenario where Dan Snyder simply goes through the motions of preparing for a sale of the Commanders before keeping the team after all.
The last time NFL owners met, two months ago in lower Manhattan, a privileged session containing only owners and their kin concluded with commissioner Roger Goodell delivering a forceful message.
He told the league’s biggest power brokers, more or less, to pipe down, and let the process take care of itself. Colts owner Jim Irsay had stepped out of line hours earlier, and explained to the media that he wanted his peers to seriously consider pressing the nuclear button—and, if the evidence warranted it, to vote out Commanders owner Dan Snyder.