Fassel meets with Redskins over coaching vacancies

[Bill B]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

OK people, chill on the Dan Snyder just wants to make money conspiracy theory. He's not effing around with coaches and free agents just to make more money. The answer is much more simple than that: he just doesn't understand football well enough.

He brought Gibbs in and gave him total control over personnel decisions. Two out of those four years, Gibbs took a very low-key approach to free agency. And during those years, we didn't have any coaching turnover. Amazingly, despite the relative stability, the team made a boatload of money!

Change does not lead to more revenue. Marketing (extremeskins, alternate uniforms, expanding the stadium, Redskins Radio, etcetera) makes more money. He's not thinking of bringing in Fassel to make more money. He's considering Fassel because he feels it's possible he'll be a better HC than GW.

He's in it to win it. If he picks Fassel, it shows he has no clue. If he picks GW, it shows that he's learning.

Schneed - I agree with you on Synders lack of football knowledge but as far as Synder and his desire to accumulate wealth - I know people who have worked for the guy and money is extremely imporatant to the guy and runs through his decision making on pretty much everything first and foremost. Case in point: People have mocked him for the Six Flags purchase when he actually did not purchase the company for the ongoing operations - he purchased Six Flags for the underlying real estate. Synder does not care one lick about family entertainment that Six Flags used to be known for - alll he cares about with Six Flags is how much capital appreciation the Real Estate is providing. The Redskins are no different - if they were not churning out millions in earnings every year he would be taking a different approach to reverse its trend. I am not trying to criticize Synder as a businessman - in fact I think most of his business making decisions are pretty descent - I am just disappointed Synder does not learn from the likes of a Bob Kraft and go out and get tried and true GM to run the football operations.