For a decade now, Daniel Snyder has made an utter mess of the team, and yet he seldom, if ever, takes responsibility for it. He operates from behind a phalanx of security, proxies and media managers, routinely declining to comment and be accountable. He wants all the fun when they win and none of the blame when they lose. The most damning anecdote I’ve heard yet about Snyder came this week from his former player-confidante LaVar Arrington, who described how Snyder would stand outside the locker room and shake hands with players when they won, but glared and declined to offer a hand when they lost.
Snyder isn’t a ‘football’ guy, and only bought the team to be ‘one of the guys in the club’.
I know he’s the owner of the team you follows, but quite honestly, that is too good a franchise to have such a pompous ass for an owner.
He acts like he knows football when he actually knows JACK.
People blast Jerry Jones and Al Davis, but at least the KNOW football, and have a passion for the game.
The Redskins play in the most competitive division in football. Until Snyder sells, the team is doomed. He will keep hiring lackey GM’s and coaches who will entertain his destructive whims
Oliver, in light of the ongoing Redskins malaise, you could perhaps salvage the first half of the weekend by plugging into some Beamerball!!
He wants all the fun when they win
And when was that, exactly?
I remember pretty distinctly my senior year in high school, reading in a football magazine how the Skins had recently signed or traded for Dana Stubblefield, Dan Wilkinson, Bruce Smith and Deion Sanders, combined age about 150. My friend say ‘well that’s gonna work out great.’
And Stubblefield compared him to Eddie DeBartolo. Maybe in attitude, obviously not in talent.
Snyder has taken the Redskins into Yankees style management. It has done nothing, but hurt us in the long run. It will not surprise me if Zorn, Campbell and Portis are all gone by the end of the season.
At least Danny Boy seems to try even though he is just a jock sniffing rich boy with his toy. Randy Lerner, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, doesn’t give a s**t. Lerner loves his Aston Villa soccer team in the Preimer League, and the Browns was his daddy’s team. Browns fans are in hell.
Frank C.
I agree about Danny adopting Yankee style ownership skills. The problem is that the old Yankee style of buying free agents doesn’t work as well in football as it does in baseball. One Catfish Hunter or Reggie Jackson can almost turn around a team overnight but it takes more than that with a football team and Danny hasn’t quite gotten around to realizing that yet. Not to mention the fact that for all his faults George and his staff signed a greater percentage of picks that worked out than Danny,
Oh how I wish he could be fired.
Danny is a moron. He just makes me crazy. My family has had season tickets since 1965. Even though we live 650 miles away now, we go to DC for games at least a few times a year – until recently. Why should we bother? DC is a great town and I love the people, but a weekend trip and a plane ticket to see a team that just sucks??
As one of the other commenters said, Danny thinks he can win on the Yankees model. NFL is the ultimate team sport and has a salary cap – so you can’t just throw money at a team and expect to win.
He pays players too much, coaches too much and doesn’t give the team a chance to become a team. He needs to go so the Skins will have a chance to return to the elite ranks of the NFL.
I never imagined at the Metrodome in ‘92 that the Skins would be out for the next 17 years or more.
as others have said, if only we could fire the owner….
Danny is relatively young. This means the Skins are doomed for at least the next three decades.
joaquin:
Jerry Jones doesn’t know football. Al Davis does. But yes, it has now passed Davis by.
lonya:
Don’t forget. The Yankees could draft players, although they rarely ended up in Yankees uniforms. Case in point being Fred McGriff(Jesus, imagine him with that porch in right field?). There are many others. McGriff is just the one that comes to mind automatically.