Did anyone else watch Comcast postgame? (Lavar Related)

[RedskinNation21]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

You can continue thinking the coaching staff owes you something if you'd like, but I'm afraid you're barking up the wrong tree. Comparing Microsoft to football is like comparing apples and anything else irrelevant.

Damn straight they owe us an explanation, Its our team not theirs. Where are their salaries coming from. They are paid to win games but tell us why without some away from the truth answer. This is the Washington Redskins not the joe gibbs or gw redskins. Thats horse crap....ITS OUR TEAM...without us they would be moving to L.A.....

[railcon56]

Originally Posted by RedskinNation21

Damn straight they owe us an explanation, Its our team not theirs. Where are their salaries coming from. They are paid to win games but tell us why without some away from the truth answer. This is the Washington Redskins not the joe gibbs or gw redskins. Thats horse crap....ITS OUR TEAM...without us they would be moving to L.A.....

They dont wanna hear that but i agree 100% with you...

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by Southpaw

Secondly, if you think the coaching staff does not owe us the truth, and they only have to answer to Snyder, you know nothing about business.

Saying that they don't owe us anything is like saying Microsoft doesn't owe you any updates or tech support when they sell you a crappy product.

if you've ever worked in a business's marketing department, you'd know that telling the truth isn't important to most companies, as long as they can sell. Danny can sell out with 5-11 and 6-10 teams, with honest or dishonest coaches (whatever your opinion may be)... the quality of the product is mainly derived from wins and losses anyways, not whether the coaches decide to hold three hour pow-wows over every personnel decision they make.

and comparing anyone to microoft is silly they really DON'T owe you anything beyond the crappy product. If windows update wasn't available, they'd still be making billions.

[#56fanatic]

this just in from sportstalk 980. LaVar has finally had enough. he said he is sick of hearing the coaches say he has to perform on the practice field. He said its hard to prove it on the practice field if you dont get on the field to practice. He feels that he is basically getting spit in the face by this staff. He loves the redskins, the fans, but said if they aren't going to play me, and continue to do this, he wants to be traded. I said long ago, its not Lavars ability to grasp this D, its something within the organization. It might be the contract thing, who knows, but its not because he cant play. Again, he is quoted as saying, "I do not practice!!" I practice as much as I am on the field during games, not at all!!!

[railcon56]

i feel sick

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

You can continue thinking the coaching staff owes you something if you'd like, but I'm afraid you're barking up the wrong tree. Comparing Microsoft to football is like comparing apples and anything else irrelevant.

Once again, the NFL is a business first and foremost. Do you think the NFL is there just so a bunch of guys can go out on the field and toss the ball around? No, it's there to make money by selling it's product, which is the team, and it's byproducts which is it's merchandise, tickets, and advertising space. And that money comes from nowhere else but the fans.

If we weren't supposed to know anything about the state of the team other than what we see on Sundays, they wouldn't bother producing a hundred different shows about the NFL and Redskins(locally), and newspapers and radio shows wouldn't bother reporting on team related issues. Now of course no one can force the coaches to divulge information to us, just as no one can force Bill Gates to offer tech support for his product, but if you plan on having repeat customers, or long time fans to generate continued revenue for the future, you do little things like that to appease them. If it got to a point where people stopped buying the tickets and merchandise, things would change because it would be taking money out of Snyders pocket. Luckily for him, that won't happen in any time soon because for some reason, we blindly follow and love the Redskins, in spite of a decade of big spending, false hope, empty promises, and sub par seasons.

[#56fanatic]

Also, let me say i think this organization, as much as I love the Redskins, is handling this thing like crap. Its basically because of the offseason crap that was said, the contract thing, which LaVar dropped, but was taken back to court by the players association. This is just a series of events that this organization does to give it a black eye. you can not , and i dont care about records and what the defense is doing, so stop saying it. you can not tell me that Warrick,"sorry ass, cant get a sack, make 2 tackles game Holdman is as good or better than LaVar. All of us LaVar Arrington fans are outraged. I dont care if its Joe Gibbs, Dan Snyder to who ever, this is the most rediculous thing they could have done. This is a man that has been the Redskins for 5 years. Stuck by them in all the bad years, reworked contract after contract to get them more money to sign better players, worked his ass off to get back on the field, then loses his job. Zack thomas never lost his job, Urlacher never lost his, it awful. LaVar deserves better, we as Redskin fans wearing #56 and paying the prices to see our favorite players deserve better. This is a bush league thing to do especially to a player than has been this organiztions cash cow for 5 years. REDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by That Guy

Danny can sell out with 5-11 and 6-10 teams, with honest or dishonest coaches (whatever your opinion may be)...

Yeah, as much as I despise Snyder as the Redskins owner, he's actually one of my role models in business. I still haven't figured out how he's managed to turn the Skins into the most profitable franchise in sports, when they've had mediocre and worse seasons for his entire tenure. It must be the hype machine he creates every off season.

[#56fanatic]

Yes he is a marketing genious, but when it comes to players he is a little tyrant. To do what they are doing w/ Lavar is just plain stupid. I love the Redskins, always will, but how can us fans continue to buy jersey after jersey if they keep going to other teams in 3 years. I know its the way the NFL is, but when are our Redskins going to stay OUR REDSKINS?

[railcon56]

Originally Posted by #56fanatic

you can not tell me that Warrick,"sorry ass, cant get a sack, make 2 tackles game Holdman is as good or better than LaVar. All of us LaVar Arrington fans are outraged.

OUTRAGED???? that doesn't even begin to cover the anger

[RedskinNation21]

Originally Posted by #56fanatic

Yes he is a marketing genious, but when it comes to players he is a little tyrant. To do what they are doing w/ Lavar is just plain stupid. I love the Redskins, always will, but how can us fans continue to buy jersey after jersey if they keep going to other teams in 3 years. I know its the way the NFL is, but when are our Redskins going to stay OUR REDSKINS?

I though I was the only one.....Keep preaching my brotha!!!

[wolfeskins]

if they are planning to trade him , which i think they are, they should play him this year to prove to any potential trade partner that he is still a dominant linebacker and that he has fully recovered from the knee injury.

[MTK]

So much for LaVar not bitching... this is not going to end well.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...101101908.html

[FRPLG]

I refuse to believe that in the "animated" discussion Gibbs and Arrington reportedly had that they were discussing rib recipes. Seems weird that in the whole conversation Gibbs didn't tell him exactly why he wasn't playing and what he needed to do to get in the game. Maybe lavar didn't like what he heard and blocked it out.

[onlydarksets]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

So much for LaVar not bitching... this is not going to end well.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...101101908.html

I agree this isn't going to end well, but I don't see how this qualifies as "bitching". I stand by my original statement that that Lavar has not been disruptive about this. Can anyone honestly say that his comments are inappropriate? No, you can't. He's willing to play special teams, just to get a chance to play and prove himself. The only possible comment is where he says "I'm to the point now that it's overshadowing what we're doing." But that's just a statement of reality - this thing is overshadowing what the Skins are doing this season.

Bottom line is that Gibbs/GW feel that Lavar off the field makes the team better than him on the field. This doesn't require a conspiracy theory. Their reasons may be personal, professional, organizational, or some combination. However, it is starting to look like there is a personal issue in this.