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Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon
ask yourself why Marty Schottenheimer was fired after only one season. Who did it and why? Then you will begin to understand why stability and continuity will be difficult to obtain for this team...
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I remember that season pretty well. I remember the Redskins struggling with Marty's off. schemes initially then a little after halfway through the season, it was like a giant lightbulb went on in the team's collective head and we put a few wins together at the end of the season. Did we go 8-8 that year or something close? The thing that I remembered most about what encompassed that whole season though, was that the previous year, Schottenheimer as a commentator for ESPN or some other sports network made the comment that he would never coach for an owner like Dan Snyder. A couple months later he was hired then a year later he was fired. I remember the disgust I felt for Snyder because I thought he was treating the whole thing like a little game- "I can hire whoever I want, I can fire whoever I want" with no apparent regard for the success of the team. If you are indeed inferring that Snyder was responsible and his motivation was akin to that of a canine's ability to lick his own reproductive organs ("because I can"), yeah I would agree and until "The Daniel" decides to sit in his leatherette chair lean back and do nothing more than write paychecks, it will be a challenge for us to maintain a comfortable level of consistency and continuity.