The Snyder Monologues

[hooskins]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

Yech. That needs a NSFA tag. (not safe for anybody)

Al looks scary in hd.

[DirtyLandry]

He said that Gibbs above all taught him patience. I imagine as the owner of the #1 franchise in the #1 sport in the world it was a hard lesson to learn.

[SouperMeister]

I love that kind of passion from an owner. Too many owners are more concerned about the bottom line before winning. Regardless of what you think of the man or his methods, he can never be accused of not caring.

[SkinDogg]

When we win, we're in love.

[DirtyLandry]

Originally Posted by SkinDogg

When we win, we're in love.

I see what your saying, but I don't think this is some schoolgirl crush. I can't speak for everyone, but I never had a problem with Snyder. He's self-made and a fan first. While I have moaned and groaned with other fans over the years at some of the hirings and bad decisions, I understand that everyone makes mistakes and his only intention ever was to win. This off season, in my opinion, was a testament to the fact that he has learned his lesson and while there is still a lot of season to go with a rookie head coach at the helm, no team is off to a stronger start than the Redskins.

[GMScud]

Yeah these reactions show how passionate he is about the team. You can also see with all that passion how easy it was for him to be meddlesome for such a long time. I'm glad Gibbs finally drilled into his head the importance of letting football minds make football decisions. We've been solid ever since. I agree with Ruhskins. It's been a learning process, but he's obviously getting much better.

[SkinDogg]

Originally Posted by DirtyLandry

I see what your saying, but I don't think this is some schoolgirl crush. I can't speak for everyone, but I never had a problem with Snyder. He's self-made and a fan first. While I have moaned and groaned with other fans over the years at some of the hirings and bad decisions, I understand that everyone makes mistakes and his only intention ever was to win. This off season, in my opinion, was a testament to the fact that he has learned his lesson and while there is still a lot of season to go with a rookie head coach at the helm, no team is off to a stronger start than the Redskins.

My comment was directed to us fans, and not so much Dan Snyder. Had we been standing 1-4 instead of 4-1, this thread would have been one big bleep. We would've bemoaned about losing Williams, b*tched about Cerrato, I for one would have continued the Jeff George rant... BUT we ARE 4-1, and not a by-chance 4-1. Still, I agree though, it seems Dan has evolved, maybe matured in his mgt.

[Ruhskins]

I think it has been a learning process with Snyder. His actions were typical of a person with money, he thought he could get a SB trophy by buying his way to one. However, he has learned patience, trusting the people that work for him, and learn to grow as an owner.

[FRPLG]

We hav an owner who loves his team like we love this team. He has the money and the desire to make this work. At then end of the day you can count on one hand the owners in this league who have the money and singular motivation to win in this league. Maybe his tactics in the past haven't worked or were simply misdirected but I still think he is a top owner in this league. I really can't think of more than 2 or 3 that I'd "rather" have. Operationally speaking.

[hail_2_da_skins]

All Dan wants to do, is see the Redskins win football games. It's been that way from the first time he bought the team. Because he is a big fan, he has been guilty of trying to do anything in his power to make them a winner instantly. He has taken a lot of heat from the media and fans outside of the Redskin family. I love him. I like an owner that wants to win and tries to put the best product on the field always. I hate owners that just look at the bottom line and field a team just good enough to sell seats and license merchandise.

[saden1]

LOL....Snyder doing his Tom Cruise imitation?

[TheSmurfs22]

It is great to see an owner so happy for his team and players. Sure he has done some boneheaded things in the past and will do more in the future but he truly loves this team.

[JLee9718]

All the sportscasters and sportswriters who were so highly critical of Dan Snyder are all suddenly jumping on the Redskins bandwagon.

[JLee9718]

Snyder wanted Spagnuolo (Sp?) from the Giants as head coach (as everybody knows). He's lucky that Spagnuolo wanted to stay in New York. Snyder also talked Greg Blatche into coaching the defense because he's got the Redskins defense playing great ball. I don't have too much to say about Vinny. I'd like to give him some credit, and I'm trying to find a way. Maybe Vinny liked Zorn and through discussions about head coaches, he and Snyder decided Zorn would be better than Fassel. I didn't want Fassel, either, so we're all lucky in that respect. Snyder deserves a lot of credit for going through his process of hiring the head coach and coming up with Zorn.

[johnerotten]

i do not think there is an owner in sports that wants to win as bad as snyder does.
maybe mark cuban.i think that snyder benefitted and so did the entire skins organization
when gibbs came back for 4 years.i think having the coach around matured him and made him look at the redskins very much different as he did with turner,marty,and spurrier.