Grade Dan Snyder

I do not know how much of a "hands-on" owner Snyder is. But I will give him his props and a grade of "A" for at least one thing.

Every single year Dan Snyder goes above and beyond and always puts the best product on the field for the fans. Always.

Most GM/Owners in the league cannot be credited with the same, that is for sure.

I'm giving him a D because I'm grading him on his full body of work to date. If you divide his tenure into one marking period each year, the guy pretty much gets Fs for the first few marking periods. Lately I think he's done much better and deserves Bs and Cs. Overall, he's averaging out to a D for me.

- He gets an F for the ridiculous spending spree of 2000.
- He gets an F for firing Norv when we're 7-6 and in reach of the playoffs (seriously, is Terry Robiskie going to do better than Norv Turner??)
- He gets an A for hiring Marty Schottenheimer, but an F for failing to keep him.
- He gets an F for the Steve Spurrier hire. That was ridiculous.
- He gets an F for the handling of Laveraneus Coles, that was also ridiculous.

BUT...
- He gets an A+++ for luring Joe Gibbs back.
- He gets an A for learning his role on the team and taking a back seat to Gibbs on personnel decisions.
- He gets an A for generating revenues which allow him to comfortably spend on free agents.
- He gets an A for willingness to pay free agents, I'd hate to have a cheap ass owner.
- And he and Schaffer get an A for salary cap management.

Going forward I think he'll be a solid owner because he's learned from his mistakes. But those mistakes earn him a D, based on what he's done to date.

Every single year Dan Snyder goes above and beyond and always puts the best product on the field for the fans. Always.

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He gets a D in my book, and the only thing keeping him from getting an F is the fact that I think he does want the Redskins to win. Although I think his reasoning for wanting them to be successful on the field is so he can put more asses in seats and sell more merchandise.

If we were grading the Redskins organization as a business, I'd give him an A since he's turned a perennially mediocre franchise into a billion dollar operation, but as a football operation he's failed, at least until this point. I'm sure even Snyder would agree that all the good intentions in the world don't mean dick when you can't produce a winner.

A for effort, no other owner wants to win as badly as Danny Boy, and he sure doesn't mind opening up that wallet.

B for results at this point, mainly for bringing Joe back and the 05 results, he gets the higher overall grade.

However, I think after this year and a superbowl victory he will recieve an A+ on his next report card!

C+

I think his overall performance is average. There are areas where he's the best in the league (i.e.: revenues and willingness to spend). However, there are also areas where he is not (i.e.: meddling and impulsive decisions). I think about half of the league's owners are better, and the other half are worse.

He gets a D from me because of he's not patient or willing to let a team develop on both the player or coaches end.

I give him a C cause in a nutshell there are 2 aspects to ownership: $ & winning. The 2 are related so that you can't entirely separate them, but for the sake of this thread I will.
$ - A
Winning - D

Intentions aside, I'll say a D.

It boils down to a very simple formula: Wins and Losses.

Anyone who gives this chump anything but an F obviously doesn't give a rats ass about winning. He's playing fantasy football with the Redskins, and the best thing for this team would be for him to go far far away. Or hire a GM. Which he won't. Buh Bye.

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Here we go with the GM talk again. If you rate Snyder an F, what do you rate Joe Gibbs?