[sportscurmudgeon]

Danny Boy owns the team and as long as he does he will be a hands-on owner. Deal with it...

When he hired his boyhood idol, Joe Gibbs, to come in and save the franchise from the Steve Spurrier miasma, Danny Boy said that Joe Gibbs would be in charge of "all-things-football." Two things are wrong with that:

1. It wasn't true.

2. Joe Gibbs isn't really the person you want to be in in charge of "all-things-football". Gibbs' successes in the 80s were built on the wisdom and the trading/drafting acumen of Bobby Beathard in the absence of a salary cap. That's what happened here; any other version of that success is revisionist history.

When Gibbs let it be known that Snyder was the guy who settled the disputes that could not be resolved between him and others in the organization, it was patently clear to anyone paying attention that Gibbs was not in charge of "all-things-football". If he were, there would never have been any unresolved football issues; his would have been the final say.

So, if Danny Boy could not cede authority to his boyhood idol, it isn't gonna happen for the next guy or the guy after that or the guiy after ...

And Vinny C. - aka Vinny Boombatz - is a confidante of Danny Boy. He's here and he ain't leaving town so pencil him into any processes or structures that you may want to conjure up for the Redskins. Here's the problem: Vinny C. has more bad judgments about players than he does good judgments. And he has the hands-on boss' ear and the hands-on boss makes lots of the final calls.

So, hang on for more ups and downs and changes of directions with this organization. In fact, maybe calling it an "organization" is the biggest mistake because it seems to spend so much time randomly changing its collective mind and its direction. Maybe we sould really call it a "chaos"?

There won't be a real and functioning GM here any time soon. Deal with it...