Houston Chronicle column

[Shane]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

Amazing the amount of venon here. Tagliabue hates Snyder? Puhleeez!

If this story were about Jerry Jones, 99% of the people here would want Richard Justice to earn a Pulitzer Prize for his deathless prose. Read it for what it is; honest criticism of a blowhard owner who has yet to achieve anything in the NFL despite his bombast.

There is no point in idealizing Snyder's record, but at this point the past is the past. I'm letting it go personally. Snyder has brought in Joe Gibbs, and in so doing he has stepped back. It is an admission on his part that he was a failure. He knew he was on the verge of a massive and richly deserved "Dump Snyder" movement in DC, replete with the fans wearing t-shirts with "Dump Snyder, Save the Redskins", just as they did in San Francisco at Candlestick Park this past year about the 49ers and what's his name out there. To Snyder's credit, he woke up and thank god Joe Gibbs came back to take on the thus far thankless task of rebuilding this franchise that crumbled after he left years ago and the ownership problems emerged.

What amazes me is how ungrateful fans are often about Joe Gibbs. His job is hard enough without hearing all the miserable whining about what he's doing wrong all the time. Honest, calm critical analysis is one thing, but Joe deserves support. He didn't have to come back to save this team, it was an enormous sacrifice.