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Snyder is the one constant who, when he's making decisions, usually isn't doing his due diligence. But it's not all about him, a lot of it is whom he's chosen to hire. He's been surrounded the whole time by a bunch of different people who know the names, but not the backgrounds.

I think Vinny has actually been one of the more competent people making decisions for the Redskins in the past 7 years or so, but he's about the worst possible person to be mediating between the owner and the head coach anyway. In a vacuum, he's a mediocre drafter who is more prudent in free agency than the rest of the people who have been making decisions for the Redskins, but Vinny has never had total autonomy. He's closer to that right now than he's ever been before, but he's a general failure as, "guy-who-is-in-charge-of-most-but-not-all" personnel decisions.

But it hasn't been just those two. It comes back to Snyder, but knowing who is responsible doesn't fix the problem. Gibbs, Saunders, Blache, Spurrier, and even Zorn all got way more say in personnel issues than they should have. Only Gregg Williams consistently helped pluck diamonds-in-the rough off the FA market.

It's worth pointing out that the Dallas Cowboys are a greatly flawed franchise, but there's no question about who is in charge there. They don't always make the best decisions, but they have accountability, which is really the only difference between their FO and ours right now.