Len Pastabelly on Gibbs' Retirement: "Just An Ordinary Joe"

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Originally Posted by irish

Call me old fashioned but I think football people should be making football decisions and owners should make ownership decisions.

Well, what constitutes an "ownership" decision? He owns the team so, arguably, who he employs is ultimately an ownership decision., whether they be a player, coach or FO person.

What you really want, as many do, is for Snyder to be an open checkbook for, say Floyd Reese, as he was for Joe Gibbs. Essentially, you want him to cede control of his enterprise to a general manager/team president/ceo, etc. because you believe him to be (as many others do) incompetent in the personnel/talent evaluation phase.

I can't believe I am saying this but, and this is a big big "but", if he has learned patience and discarded his fantasy football ways, Snyder could do fine in the talent aquisition phase. Certainly when it comes to running the cap, the current FO arrangement has allowed some flexibility despite consistent projections of gloom and doom.

Again, the question remains - Do we get the the talent aquisition of the Smoot/Fletcher year or the Archuletta/LLoyd/Duckett year? If the former, Snyder is fine by me. If the latter, well, call me when he sells the team.