When will Synder wake up?

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Originally Posted by insideman

When will the owner of this team wake up and do what its gonna take to make this a winning football team?

Snyder did not buy the Redskins to win Super Bowls. He bought the Redskins to run the personnel department and win Super Bowls. Making personnel moves is the most important part of the job to Snyder, more important than winning. People who say that Snyder will do whatever it takes to win are quite obviously incorrect. Snyder will not do the most important thing it takes to win: Put professionals in charge of everything. Spending a ton of money doesn't matter if you're not spending it wisely and Snyder simply does not -- and never will -- know enough about professional football to spend money as wisely as teams that are run by people who have spent their entire adult lives learning this stuff.

If winning was the most important thing to Dan Snyder, he'd do the one thing that would help more to win than any other: Fire the personnel department [starting with himself], hire actual NFL professionals, and go upstairs to be an owner like Jack Kent Cooke.

The Redskins will never be a winning franchise as long as Dan Snyder is closely involved in the personnel decisions. Oh, sure, they can get lucky some years, get a few breaks, win some games in a weak conference and find themselves in a playoff game or two. But they will never win a Super Bowl and they will never be a consistent winner [like the Steelers, for example] as long as Snyder is the actual GM of the team.