How low can Dan Snyder go?
Oct. 21st, 2009 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herveusPretty low. We may not have yet found the bottom.
The Washington Redskins suck. Big time. They've given up wins to three sucky teams that they should have beaten handily. They can't score points. They have no fire in their bellies.
You'd think that the coach might get fired. That's not what's happening. Jim Zorn is under contract for at least another year, owed something like $3 million. If Dan Snyder, filthy rich owner of the most profitable and second most valuable NFL team, is so cheap that he is trying to make the working conditions so horrible that Zorn will quit, rather than fire him and pay off the contract. Not that firing the coach is going to fix what is fundamentally broken.
Dan Snyder has no idea how to *own* a football team. Neither does he know how to *run* a football operation. He has a "Vice President of Football Operations" (formerly "General Manager") who is his patsy. Vinny Cerrato shows no evidence that he knows how to pick talent, identify needs, and fill them. He enables Dan Snyder to play at owning a team. How else do you explain the persistent failure to draft players to address needs (such as an offensive line), the repeated changes of offensive system without providing the kind of personnel needed to execute same, and the apparent obsession with picking up marquis at random.
To be successful on the field, Snyder needs a Charlie Casserly. The only thing he should be doing is signing the checks. Hire someone who knows the business and let them run it. Until he buys that clue, the Foreskins will be the laughingstock of the NFL. There were 10,000 empty seats at the game Sunday. Ten thousand! That's unheard of. It's shameful.
Dan Snyder is trying to displace Peter Angelos from the pedestal of slimiest major sports team owner. It's not easy, but he's off to a roaring start. Meanwhile, the Lerners are trying for an honorable mention with their tenure owning the Washington Nationals.
The Washington Redskins suck. Big time. They've given up wins to three sucky teams that they should have beaten handily. They can't score points. They have no fire in their bellies.
You'd think that the coach might get fired. That's not what's happening. Jim Zorn is under contract for at least another year, owed something like $3 million. If Dan Snyder, filthy rich owner of the most profitable and second most valuable NFL team, is so cheap that he is trying to make the working conditions so horrible that Zorn will quit, rather than fire him and pay off the contract. Not that firing the coach is going to fix what is fundamentally broken.
Dan Snyder has no idea how to *own* a football team. Neither does he know how to *run* a football operation. He has a "Vice President of Football Operations" (formerly "General Manager") who is his patsy. Vinny Cerrato shows no evidence that he knows how to pick talent, identify needs, and fill them. He enables Dan Snyder to play at owning a team. How else do you explain the persistent failure to draft players to address needs (such as an offensive line), the repeated changes of offensive system without providing the kind of personnel needed to execute same, and the apparent obsession with picking up marquis at random.
To be successful on the field, Snyder needs a Charlie Casserly. The only thing he should be doing is signing the checks. Hire someone who knows the business and let them run it. Until he buys that clue, the Foreskins will be the laughingstock of the NFL. There were 10,000 empty seats at the game Sunday. Ten thousand! That's unheard of. It's shameful.
Dan Snyder is trying to displace Peter Angelos from the pedestal of slimiest major sports team owner. It's not easy, but he's off to a roaring start. Meanwhile, the Lerners are trying for an honorable mention with their tenure owning the Washington Nationals.
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Date: 2009-10-21 11:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-10-22 01:20 am (UTC)I've been a Caps fan since I began the journey for my Master's degree and had to monitor the games to be able to time my arrival at PGCC - which was right next to the Cap Center. Again, I started listening to the games on the radio and got hooked. Now my sports watching buddy (Gosling #2) and I are going to a game on the 30th. A good owner and a great team - what more can you ask. I will still mourn on Sundays.
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Date: 2009-10-22 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-22 02:12 am (UTC)Full season baby!
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Date: 2009-10-22 07:25 pm (UTC)http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/10/21/DI2009102101116.html
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Date: 2009-10-23 01:16 am (UTC)I agree he needs a Charlie Casserly, except he'll never get one because he wouldn't be able to give up that kind of control.
I think Snyder is trying to thumb his nose at all the high school jocks who must have given him swirlies and pushed him into lockers. Too bad it's not going to work. I think his former classmates are probably laughing harder at him now than they did in high school.
I love the fact that we aren't hearing much from Joe Gibbs about any of this.
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Date: 2009-10-23 11:08 am (UTC)