Snyder Camp Upset!!

I know that I am in the minority, but I like Dan Snyder sand hopes he owns the team for decades to come. I honestly believe that, despite his littany of mistakes, his intentions are in the right place and he will facillitate bringing a couple of Lombardi trophies to the B&G.

BTW- I would pressure the paper to fire the guy too. What's the use of being wealthy if you don't flex your power sometimes?

LOL true but let's save it for the movies. We're talking about a man's job and possible family here.

Clicked onto yahoo this morning and this dan snyder thing was the first article highlighted on their front page. awesome

I am going to go out on a limb here and assume the league cant be too happy with bad rep coming out about an nfl owner during superbowl week when the spotlight is extra bright and is supposed to be a positive image time for the NFL.

DS and his team had to know the Wash Po would make an article about his request for preservation of evidence re. the city paper article. He should have just waited a few weeks.

Just another decision from his camp that doesnt seem to well thought out to me.

Look, Dan Snyder is a douche. He's treated his team's fans quite poorly in more ways than just shitty play on the field. That being said, I agree that it appears he's figured out that he has no idea how to run a football team himself, so he needed to get people that do know how to do it. I don't know if Shanny will be the answer nor do I know if Mr. Allen will be able to fix the team, but I'd much rather have Danny Boy than Al Davis or some of the other owners that refuse to spend money. The big thing that needs to be changed is quit trading away draft picks and instead, attempt to acquire more picks. Give the coaching staff enough time to actually succeed or fail rather than make a knee jerk reaction after one or two seasons. And finally, how bout reaching out to the fans of your team? You're filthy rich, you have the second most valuable team in the NFL. How about cutting ticket prices and truly offer the fans something of value as opposed to just consistently losing football. Cut prices now, and when you start winning again, the fans won't mind paying a little bit more for a winning team.

The Redskins' Dan Snyder makes it personal after a newspaper publishes a funny story.

Way to spin it for clickability Yahoo. I have come to really dislike a lot of Yahoo Sports headlines, and the articles are usually just as useless.

I generally would be a Dan Snyder apologist, and really think he is getting set for a long haul as a top owner. Some of that is hope, some is wishful, but a lot is based on watching a maturation process over all 10 years of his ownership. I've given enough long winded defenses not going to add another one, but the Yahoo link quote is just ridiculous to me. The article wasn't making jokes, it was a hatchet job, with a lot of facts, and certainly the writer made it personal long before Snyder did.

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Like other business "gurus," Snyder operates the Redskins under the mistaken assumption that success is something that can be bought. As far as I can tell, the Snyder Doctrine is some bizarre concoction of liberal amounts of reactionary decision-making, a strong concentration on the short term, and a heavy supply of poorly structured incentives. His favorite answer to solving complex problems is simply to throw more money at them.

Investors who have been around the block once or twice should start to see a few problems developing here.

To me, Dan Snyder is precisely the type of guy Benjamin Graham had in mind when he said "Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything."


Longtimefan:

I would have given huge odds that Ben Graham's name would not have been invoked on this website for the next decade. Glad I didn't offer that prop bet...

BTW, I tend to agree with your final assessment here...

Dan Snyder should take some pointers from Cirque du Soleil and realize that putting corporate interests first for the Redskins has harmed the culture there in more ways than one.

I'll just re-link what I said in the other thread this past fall about this article here.

http://www.thewarpath.net/760520-post45.html

Hey Smack!! Is this true??

Flavor of ice cream that Snyder left to thaw in defensive coordinator Mike Nolan’s office TWICE in one season to let the coach know the owner felt his schemes were simplistic, or vanilla. John Feinstein wrote that Snyder’s second delivery, after a loss to Dallas, consisted of “three giant canisters of melting 31 Flavors ice cream” and a note that said “I do not like vanilla.”

This sort of reminds me of last year when that bogus story circulated about Snyder ordering some million dollar alligator desks, or something like that.

I'm sure he gets frustrated with the repeated misinformation that's put out there. Who wouldn't? Unfortunately, it comes with the territory. He's better off just ignoring it. I mean if the worst someone can say about you is you spend too much on your team, what's the huge deal. He didn't, as I recall, make any defamatory statements toward Snyder's wife or kids. Had he done that, yeah sue him and his offspring for everything they've got and hope to one day have.

The Yahoo story on this included the comment that Snyder has just guaranteed maximum national exposure of what was originally a local story that has generally been forgotten about. And as a few others have said, such a decision rings of the old Snyder instead of the new one that, judging by the posts in this thread, the majority is very much enamored with.

Approaching the Post and telling them to save e-mails and leaking the news of the lawsuit exploration is a stupid decision on Snyder's part. I generally agree that Snyder has exhibited some maturation, although I disagree that it has been years in development as others have said, and instead believe it has only manifested very, very recently. But this since-dead story was printed in the same year that Snyder acknowledged past missteps and actually let a non-Joe Gibbs head coach become the franchise face, so I'm disappointed that he didn't choose to show himself above his detractors and just let this go. That would have been the mature thing to do.

Look, Dan Snyder is a douche. He's treated his team's fans quite poorly in more ways than just shitty play on the field. That being said, I agree that it appears he's figured out that he has no idea how to run a football team himself, so he needed to get people that do know how to do it. I don't know if Shanny will be the answer nor do I know if Mr. Allen will be able to fix the team, but I'd much rather have Danny Boy than Al Davis or some of the other owners that refuse to spend money. The big thing that needs to be changed is quit trading away draft picks and instead, attempt to acquire more picks. Give the coaching staff enough time to actually succeed or fail rather than make a knee jerk reaction after one or two seasons. And finally, how bout reaching out to the fans of your team? You're filthy rich, you have the second most valuable team in the NFL. How about cutting ticket prices and truly offer the fans something of value as opposed to just consistently losing football. Cut prices now, and when you start winning again, the fans won't mind paying a little bit more for a winning team.

Business first, dirty non-business things later...or never. Bruce Allen is why the fan experience is getting better, not Snyder.

Look, regardless of the validity of the story its the freaking city paper. Doesn't he have bigger fish to fry? I think its pathetic and embarrassing that an owner is so personally TO'ed about an article.

Why not spend all that time and effort in bettering the team, to remove the negative perception created by his first decade of ownership?