The Owner and the Damage Done (Sally Jenkins Rips Dan Snyder a New One)

The Washington Post ^ | January 1, 2004 | Sally Jenkins

[GRANGER]

Snyder is the real problem with the Washington Redskins, and it's a problem no coaching change or roster move will fix. For the Redskins to become a better team, Snyder has to become a better owner.

[GRANGER]

I'm giving up my season tickets to the Redskins and switching my rooting interest to the Ravens. Dan Snyder is the reason.

[Drango]

Gee, first day of a new year and already someone has altered the title of a post. Sad.

[Johnny_Cipher]

Dan Snyder is a fine owner and a gracious gentleman. We fervently wish that he continue to conduct business just the way he has been.

Signed, the Dallas Cowboys

[Admin Moderator]

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[Clara Lou]

It's too bad he can't be fired.
Interesting. That's how I've felt about Jerry Jones. It sounds like there is a worse owner than Jones, though. Amazing. My sympathies.

[JusPasenThru]

This just in: Snyder sucks. Film at 11.

[databoss]

Snyder was successful in business only because he had the backing of a wall street slicky boy who did a classic pump and dump and used Synder Communications as the prop. Fortunately for Danny Boy he was the recipient of huge paper stock gains during the height of the tech boom which he then parlayed into the Skins...by and large his people hate him, solid old line contractors in the DC area have refused his money because of his petulance (and so it seems has Spurrier). Money does not buy happiness nor respect and it seems that Synder sorely lacks both....

[rs79bm]

I have to disagree, slightly. Snyder hired a "so-called" football genius of a coach, and stocked him with somewhat decent talent. However, Spurrier was a total flop and has only proven that he cannot coach in the NFL. Snyder is not the one calling the plays on the field and telling the players when to show up for practice. Likewise, he simply wants to win and brought in the people who he thought could do it. Hindsight is always 20/20, but I certainly would not have gone with Spurrier, a bullhog of an offensive college coach who didn't know a thing about the NFL.