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Slingin Sammy 33 · 12-12-2008, 01:49 PM

The Redskins franchise is ultimately a team. The owner makes sure the money is right, handles the business side of things and hires good FO folks. The FO and owner jointly decide on a head coach. The HC and FO decide on the other coaches on staff. The coaching staff handles their areas of responsibility, and the players...play.

Snyder is doing what he believes is best and what he can help do for the franchise. If it's marketing and making sure money is never an issue, then he's doing his job. When he was "meddling" everyone screamed for him to get out of the football side of the Skins. He does that and focuses on things an owner should do and now he's criticized for something else. Did Snyder set up a web-server and automate votes for the Pro-Bowl? Of course not. Who placed all those votes for undeserving Skins to go to the Pro Bowl....the FANS. A group of which you are a part of. Maybe the fans should've been a bit more respectful of the Pro Bowl voting and not placed votes for some of the Skins who aren't playing at a Pro Bowl level. (Sellers should at least be in the discussion at FB, the others you mentioned, agree.)

What I also find interesting is that Snyder is doing the same things he was doing when we were 6-2 as he is now, but we lose a few games and out come all the finger-pointers. I don't mean this to be an insult, but the tone of this article seems to me to be very Sally Jenkins-ish.

12-12-2008, 01:49 PM	#3
Slingin Sammy 33 Playmaker Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Virginia Beach Posts: 4,347	Re: Smoke Signals: 'Marketing won't win a playoff game' edition The Redskins franchise is ultimately a team. The owner makes sure the money is right, handles the business side of things and hires good FO folks. The FO and owner jointly decide on a head coach. The HC and FO decide on the other coaches on staff. The coaching staff handles their areas of responsibility, and the players...play. Snyder is doing what he believes is best and what he can help do for the franchise. If it's marketing and making sure money is never an issue, then he's doing his job. When he was "meddling" everyone screamed for him to get out of the football side of the Skins. He does that and focuses on things an owner should do and now he's criticized for something else. Did Snyder set up a web-server and automate votes for the Pro-Bowl? Of course not. Who placed all those votes for undeserving Skins to go to the Pro Bowl....the FANS. A group of which you are a part of. Maybe the fans should've been a bit more respectful of the Pro Bowl voting and not placed votes for some of the Skins who aren't playing at a Pro Bowl level. (Sellers should at least be in the discussion at FB, the others you mentioned, agree.) What I also find interesting is that Snyder is doing the same things he was doing when we were 6-2 as he is now, but we lose a few games and out come all the finger-pointers. I don't mean this to be an insult, but the tone of this article seems to me to be very Sally Jenkins-ish. __________________ "I would bet.....(if), an angel fairy came down and said, '[You can have anything] in the world you would like to own,' I wouldn't be surprised if you said a football club and particularly the Washington Redskins.'' — Jack Kent Cooke, 1996.