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Originally Posted by joecrisp
The Skins were losers for six years before Snyder took over. The fact that they went to the playoffs in '99 is more a reflection of the fact that Snyder lit a fire under Turner's ass than any kind of indication that things were actually headed in the right direction prior to Snyder's purchase of the team. This team was listless and directionless prior to Snyder's purchase. After Snyder bought the team, there still didn't seem to be a clear plan, other than throwing a lot of money at aging, big-name veterans. Snyder made a fool of himself by taking a devil-may-care attitude towards the salary cap, and he will probably never shake the "careless spender" label.
While on the surface it may appear that Snyder hasn't learned anything, and he will never change, his tactics have been refined somewhat since that nightmare 2000 spending spree. He still spends lots of money on free agents, but more often than not, he spends that money on younger players with upside. Yes, there have been disasters, but every team has them. Despite what the Snyder-bashing members of the media would have you believe, the Redskins are not the only team that has had their share of free agency busts.
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First, '99 Snyder was pretty much hands off, he didn't start lighting fires until 2000 and look how well that panned out. We may have been losers for six years before Snyder but we've been losers for five years with him too so he does not escape blame.
In today's NFL you cannot spend recklessly with no repercussions. Sorry if this is a news flash, but it's going to cost us some very popular and productive players in the near future. Every team has had some busts, but not the $7 mil busts that we've had year after year after year. And it's frustrating, because every year I believe, even more so this year, only to get my heart broken in the fall.
I'm just saying that Snyder has announced every friggin move as "his move", and every year we've slid further and further away from contention. We were 5-11 and while some of it was Spurrier's fault, who hired him? Who fired Norv, and who placed Norv in a situation in which he was virtually guaranteed to fail. Snyder is a great owner, at times, but he's also impatient, impetuous, and not completely innocent of the trouble the Skins are currently in.