[jgrubbs]

Here's the thing: if Snyder can't make it work with Gibbs, he'll almost have to sell the team. In some ways this is a last roll of the dice for Snyder, albeit one heck of a roll.

Wasn't it Joe Gibbs and John Cooke who were bidding against Dan Snyder to buy the team before Snyder brought in FedEx to make the purchase?

[HenryLeeII]

Yes, Joe Gibbs was involved with a group that tried to buy the team, but I forget if he was with John Cooke or not. Not too much later he became involved with the Falcons as a minority owner (which begs the question: Does Washington have to give Atlanta a draft pick or anything else in compensation, the way we would if we were signing a coach?)