Colin Cowherd Takes Another Swipe

I keep hearing the Redskins philosophy is not working???? Maybe its not working on the field, but let us not forget this is a business and The Washington Redskins are the most profitable NFL franchise. If this BUSINESS is about profitability, then Snyder has nailed it.

I know, if they continue to lose people will walk on. Guess what, they haven't had a winning streak but 2 times in the last 15 years and they continue to prove their business model attracts the almighty fans dollar!

I don't like the way things are going in the FO, but from a business perspective it is spot on and wish I owned a little piece!

The Redskins financial success does in part have to do with Snyder’s smart business moves, but more of it to do with the wealth of the DC market and Jack Kent Cooke building his stadium.
The DC area is one of the wealthiest NFL markets in the entire country. The DC area is not Green Bay or Detroit. Snyder did not polish a turd. I credit Snyder with taking one of the top NFL franchises and increased it’s revenues in new and creative ways. But the majority of the increase in revenue came from the new 80K to 90K seat stadium and increased ticket prices that the DC area can easily absorb. The wait list for season tickets before JKC stadium was 30 years long.

Schneed has pointed out several times that we CAN indeed cut some dead weight such as AA or Lloyd, and still be able to make moves in free agency and the draft without it being a major problem.I really, really think Schneed is underestimating the cost of signing 20 players who are currently not signed for 2008 against the 2008 cap. If we have to restructure 20-25 million of veteran salary just to get under the cap in 2008 with no major FA signings (which is what he is suggesting), thats 20-25 million that is completely unrecoverable in years 2009-2011. It's going to build up quick.

G, I don't know if your right or Schneed. I do know that every year about this time does the entire media world proclaim the "sky is falling" for the Skins. Salary cap HELL, etc. To date, Dan Snyder has proved them................well, you get it.

G, I don't know if your right or Schneed. I do know that every year about this time does the entire media world proclaim the "sky is falling" for the Skins. Salary cap HELL, etc. To date, Dan Snyder has proved them................well, you get it.The sky isn't really falling, and Scheed's point that we can create a lot of cap room for 2008 is correct. The key is at this point in time, we only have about 25 or so guys rostered for 2008 and beyond, half the amount needed to field a team. We are already within 8 million of the projected salary cap, and will likely be over it after this year's draft and FA season, and I only expect us to add 6-7 players. So the question becomes how much restructuring is necessary to get 20 additional players under the cap. If we make mass cuts, the downside is obvious, but if we make mass restructurings, 2009s cap situation will be twice as difficult as 2008.

If we stop restructuring contracts now, we can stay out of cap hell with little cost. (This means we cut players like Wynn, Fauria, John Hall and maybe Todd Collins) If we continue to push $10 million plus of guarenteed into the next seasons, we will eventually hit a wall, maybe as soon as next season.

If it was up to me, I would stop the buck right here and right now (coming off a 5-11 season), but we can keep these guys together for next year (restructuring), make one more run, and bite the bullet in 2008. If this organization chooses this path, and continues to try to restructure their way out of these problems in 2008 like idiots, there will be no talent on this team come 2009.

If it was up to me, I would stop the buck right here and right now (coming off a 5-11 season), but we can keep these guys together for next year (restructuring), make one more run, and bite the bullet in 2008. If this organization chooses this path, and continues to try to restructure their way out of these problems in 2008 like idiots, there will be no talent on this team come 2009.

I have to believe these conceptsare not on them. This is what they do.........like professionally. I find it impossible to imagine that any of this is a surprise to Joe2 and Co., and not accounted for in some manner.

G, I don't know if your right or Schneed. I do know that every year about this time does the entire media world proclaim the "sky is falling" for the Skins. Salary cap HELL, etc. To date, Dan Snyder has proved them................well, you get it.


With a 21-27 record over the last 3 years, and virtually no draft picks this year to help us along, I guess it all depends on how you describe the "sky falling." If it's not falling, it's pretty close, and the sky isn't necessarily the limit for this club.

What I do know is that this structure has built a team that completely collapses when just one player -- last season it was Shawn Springs -- goes down for not even half the year. When your house of cards is that shaky, and when you've compiled the win-loss record that we have, I don't how you can't say the sky isn't falling.

Going back to the Business of Football and how successful Snyder has been, here's a good website (Forbes) that shows all of the teams and breaks down their value. Pretty interesting. The Raiders by the way rank somewhere like 28.

The Business Of Football - Forbes.com (http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/30/06nfl_NFL-Team-Valuations_land.html)

A couple of comments if I may:

1. Too bad they don't have playoffs and give out championship trophies on the basis of which team makes the most money or has the highest total revenue. The reason they don't is that it wouldn't keep fan interest all that long. The "F" in "NFL" stands for "Football" not "Finances". I don't care even a little bit how much revenue the Colts or the Bears took in during the last year or what their profitability was or was not. I care that they played in the Super Bowl in February and the Redskins' coaches and players (all more well paid than those on the notoriously miserly Bears) have been sitting on their thumbs since December 31.


2. It's not even remotely important that the Redskins CAN create cap room. The only important thing is for them to do something smart with the cap room they do create.


3. In the NBA, people make fun of the Knicks because they have the highest payroll and they stink. In the NFL, the Redskins paid out more money last year than any other team (counting signing bonuses and coaching salaries and scouting resources and facilities costs); in case anyone has forgotten, the Skins were 5-11; they stunk. So, like the Knicks, they are made fun of. The way to avoid that is to win on the field. No one makes fun of the NY Yankees and their high payroll. People don't like their payroll, but no one makes fun of the franchise because the Yankees win. If anyone wants the Colin Cowherd's of the world to shut up, all they have to do is find a way to put a winner on the field a few years in a row.


4. Before I agree that Gregg (the second "g" is supposed to stand for "genius") Williams will be the next coach here in DC, I'll have to see the Skins' defense improve DRASTICALLY in each of the next two seasons and be a top five or six defense in the league. If not, he'll lose his cachet and Danny Boy will move on to some other "boutique" coach.

Like I've said in a couple of threads, we did finish the season 12 starters that were drafted as Redskins. How many teams can lay hold to that claim?

Not many.

The problem is we have no draft picks in the pipeline.