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Originally Posted by itvnetop

SS, one of the points you've brought up before is the expectations of the fanbase... which in turn may affect organizational direction. As Redskin fans, are we able to support a rebuilding effort that includes a youth movement everywhere and a sacrifice of two or three really awful years (results-wise, not necessarily growth-wise)?

The team seems to have this teetering balance b/t drafting where we still have picks and supplementing a few holes with big FAs every offseason. Silly contracts are handed out to new guys, but productive mainstays (like Sellars) have to fight for a decent extension. The up-and-coming guys I would have loved to see as head coaches here go elsewhere (Payton, Spags, etc). It's one thing when former players trash talk the organization when they leave (Pierce, LA)... it's another when one of the "core" guys like Jansen leave with bad feelings (although it definitely made business sense to let him go, I get the notion his dismissal wasn't as classy as his Redskins career was).

While DS has done everything he's believed he could to help the team win, a culture has been created to where some coordinators aren't as quick to jump at an opportunity to head coach here, some current players don't feel rewarded for their efforts and some just leave with bad tastes in their mouths. Going back to the fanbase thing, I'm not so sure Snyder is willing to sacrifice profits for a few seasons getting this thing sorted out. I hope it's not too late.

You make some very strong points. I will say though that it's hard to take much stock in what players say when they are let go. I think a lot of it is just frustration that they've been told they're not wanted anymore. But you don't hear Jansen talking about coaches came to his defense the last two seasons to keep him from being cut. You don't hear Pierce talk about how no other team even considered him in the draft and the Redskins gave him an opportunity. You don't hear Demetric Evans talk about the Redskins picking him up on waivers and then re-signing him (or that Evans said he was happy to not have to deal with the tough competition in the NFC East). You don't hear Khary Campbell explain why he wanted to be paid like a starter yet last I checked no one is even paying him to be on the roster.