Another player, however, characterized McCloughan as frequently drunk but never thought much about it because his behavior and comportment never changed.
The portrait the team official painted Thursday was starkly different that of an employee whose dependency impaired his ability to function on the job and who failed to respond to multiple attempts at recovery.
Hes been drunk at work, the team official said. Hes been drunk at games.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...=.b3497cabaae0
Frequently drunk, drunk at work, drunk at games. FFS what are we arguing about here? There's just no defending this behavior. Doesn't matter if it affects his ability to do the job or not, you can't show up to work drunk bottom line, end of story. They probably could have canned him a long time ago.
It's also worth pointing out they fired him for cause. That means they likely have some strong documentation to back it up.