Has the WP decided attacking the Skins is good for business?

Idiocy, plain and simple. Chris Mortenson mentioned recently that several teams around the league had bloated internal staffs and needed to shed as much as 25 percent of their non-essential workers. You don't need an advanced degree in economics to understand that this issue is wholly seperate from the product that you put on the field.

I posted this last week in response to JLC's attacks on our layoffs and spending:

It's kind of counter-intuitive to say a team or company that goes through some layoffs should be forbidden and/or ridiculed for spending money in an attempt to improve it's product.

I'll give her credit for quoting peoplle who point out who the real revenue drivers are and that smart businesses have to make tough decisions on where to cut and where to add (and that includes laying people off sometimes), and that it's not like the Redskins are the only team to face this situation. But ultimately, it's all just a set-up for another bashing.

Yep, a cheap shot is what it is.

It depends. In my case I actually welcomed the criticism when the writers were pointing out that the Redskins actions over the past few years seem to indicate they cared way to much about skill position players. However when the team signed Haynesworth to a $100 million contract I found myself crying while saying "they really do care." After that the signing of Dockery was icing on the cake. I'm still hoping they'll add a RT. In fact I would love to see the team sign Willis as a prospective RG and backup RT while drafting Andre Smith but that might be hoping for to much.

Anyway a lot of my anger towards the organization went away when they started showing they really did care about the front lines. So now the fact that a lot of the usual suspects at the Post keep on finding ways to complain about anything and everything I find it annoying.

Most of her diatribe article after article is usually about how DS and Cerrato have a tendancy to spend, spend, spend in FA and get nothing. She was kinda nice last Oct. when she finally decided to crawl out from under her rock and commended the team for not going on a spending spree in the offseason.

I think she and JLC need to realize as well as some on many of the boards.....you either build through the draft as NE has in the past and picked up low costing vetrans in hopes they still have a little in their tanks, or you build through FA. When you have a team that has terrible scouts and can't find a snow flake in a snow storm then your best bet is to build through FA where you have seen the players talent and he's probably gotten up to speed of the NFL.

There also is no way we could just start picking draft picks and not use FA especially when you have many holes to fill. Last year was great. Lets hope we keep all 4 or 5+ draft picks this year and perhaps find a gem who was undrafted. Hopefully next year we have all 7 picks and can keep doing the same. Problem was in years past we seemed to pick 7 or 8 players and keep 2-3 on the roster.

I am sorta boycotting the WP. I used to get all my info from them. Especially when the draft approached and during training months. I have not purchased a WP in several months if not a year ago. My sole reason for buying it was for the sports section. Well and perhaps the funnies. lol. but I find myself looking at the local paper or none at all.

Most of her diatribe article after article is usually about how DS and Cerrato have a tendancy to spend, spend, spend in FA and get nothing. She was kinda nice last Oct. when she finally decided to crawl out from under her rock and commended the team for not going on a spending spree in the offseason.

I think she and JLC need to realize as well as some on many of the boards.....you either build through the draft as NE has in the past and picked up low costing vetrans in hopes they still have a little in their tanks, or you build through FA. When you have a team that has terrible scouts and can't find a snow flake in a snow storm then your best bet is to build through FA where you have seen the players talent and he's probably gotten up to speed of the NFL.

There also is no way we could just start picking draft picks and not use FA especially when you have many holes to fill. Last year was great. Lets hope we keep all 4 or 5+ draft picks this year and perhaps find a gem who was undrafted. Hopefully next year we have all 7 picks and can keep doing the same. Problem was in years past we seemed to pick 7 or 8 players and keep 2-3 on the roster.

I am sorta boycotting the WP. I used to get all my info from them. Especially when the draft approached and during training months. I have not purchased a WP in several months if not a year ago. My sole reason for buying it was for the sports section. Well and perhaps the funnies. lol. but I find myself looking at the local paper or none at all.

That is what i was thinking about with the thread title. With the Skins being the huge sports draw, and newspapers struggling for circulation dollars, I have to ask how it helps the Post to constantly attack the Skins?
This isn't politics, where criticism is a part of the news media, this is Sports! Doesn't every fan want to get a paper that is giving his/her team an upbeat report? So did the Post at some level say they were going to profit better from being seen as the opposition to Snyder and his Skins, or is this just personnel biases?

If you read the whole article it brings out good reasoning why the players salary doesn't have much to do with regular personal decisions, so her article is a moot point. You can complain about spending till your blue in the face, nobody cares.

I can rant and rave when a rookie qb who wont even play his first 2 years gets 12mil a year, wont change anything.

BTW longtime skins fan, first post here. GO SKINS

JLC "Redskins Outsider" and NY Sally can write all the mindless drivel they want. While they bumble off into obscurity and irrelevence here's an article they should review:

washingtonpost.com (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022500951.html?hpid=moreheadlines)

This is no BS. I used to have the Post bookmarked for Skins coverage until a friend turned me on to the Warpath, back in the 2006 season. I can't remember the last time I went to the Post to read anything other than through a link here.

JLC and NY Sally are old media, and they probably see the writing on the wall. They'll both disappear in the next year or two.

If you read the whole article it brings out good reasoning why the players salary doesn't have much to do with regular personal decisions, so her article is a moot point. You can complain about spending till your blue in the face, nobody cares.

I can rant and rave when a rookie qb who wont even play his first 2 years gets 12mil a year, wont change anything.

BTW longtime skins fan, first post here. GO SKINS

I agree and welcome to the board Zerohero!

I am sorta boycotting the WP. I used to get all my info from them. Especially when the draft approached and during training months. I have not purchased a WP in several months if not a year ago. My sole reason for buying it was for the sports section. Well and perhaps the funnies. lol. but I find myself looking at the local paper or none at all.


They still have some pretty good stuff. I imagine that if the Post news on the Skins was like the reefer it would be decent quality with seeds.

The Post "attacks" the Redskins the same way the Post "attacks" the politicans in the White House and the Congress. That is to say, the Post does not always agree with any of these folks and uses the paper to point out the foibles of all of them.

Is that a good business deicsion? Well the Washington Post is one of the few newspapers in the country that is still running in the black. They must be doing something right.

For everyone who thinks Sally Jenkins is overpaid, let me suggest that they do something positive:

1. Gather up a half-dozen writing samples where you show your creativity and your anayltical skills and your ability to turn a phrase.

2. Send them to the Post and offer to take Sally Jenkins' columnist job for half of whatever she gets paid now.

3. Maybe you get a nice job at a nice raise with total access to the Redskins team and locker room...

4. Maybe you gain an appreciation of how difficult it is to write top shelf sports columns on a regular basis and a greater appreciation of Sally Jenkins' talent - - even though she may not make nice with Danny Boy and Vinnie the Troll.