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Originally Posted by mheisig
That wasn't really the point of the Post article or what anyone else was saying here.
Yes, the Redskins won without him, no disputing that. But they won in spite of treating him poorly.
Contrary to what alot of rabid football fans think, winning isn't everything. Winning at the expensive of a long line of disenfranchised, pissed off players who now have an axe to grind is a pretty poor commentary on the management of this franchise. It's not an isolated person here or there, it's one guy after another leaving this city and hating us. Why do we keep tossing valuable players aside like trash? It sure hasn't gotten us much so far.
Chalk it up to free agency or "that's how business works" or whatever you want, but there seems to be an unusually high number of situations like this with the Redskins.
I'll say it again, yes the team is more important than the man. But does that justify treating one man after another like dirt?
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I guess that's debateable. It's LaVar's word (usually an emotional one at that) vs. the team, which to this point has handled things on a very low key basis with him.
This the usual MO with LaVar.
Something happens to upset him, somehow he ends up talking to the media to vent and and/or gripe, and then Gibbs and/or Williams end up having to address the situation, rather than keeping things in house as I'm sure they would prefer.
LaVar's off the field issues this year has by far outshadowed what he's done on the field, and it's not the team that keeps this going in the media, it's LaVar. And ultimately, I think that's the key reason he won't be back next year.