Nice Article on Snyder

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Originally Posted by GusFrerotte

Come on now, do you believe everything you read? Practically every article written on him in recent times has tried to say the same thing. Can you say hype and propaganda? He wants to win, well that is what he is supposed to do, but to me he is way more businessman than fan. From what I have observed there are two ways to generate tons of revenue in the NFL, the first is to actually invest in your team in a rather intelligent way and build a team over a few years, and continually build on that even once you have a winner, or you can try the "chaos" model where you just keep everything in total chaos with the signing of high priced free agents, always changing coaches, etc with the win now attitude, keeping the fans hooked that the next regime will bring home the Lombardi. Snyder, Jones, and Al Davis have chosen the latter and have yet to produce a consistent winner. We will see if Shanny and Allen can do the job, but thus far they are fitting into the win now "Chaos" model perfectly. I bet in reality Snyder isn't all that concerned about getting a Lombardi as he is of raising the revenue stream and he can do that easier with the "Chaos" model.

Folks here seem to believe everything they read - - when the article says something they prefer to believe. However, when an article says something that they prefer not to be correct - - say like Albert Haynesworth being a lazy slug who might not play all that much in Week 1 - - then the author is a douchbag and doesn't know his ass from second base.


The events of the last decade would indcate that Danny Boy Snyder is more passionate about increasing revenues and net positive cash flow from the team than about winning. Part of the evidence for that would be that positive cash flow from the Redskins is estimated to be up by more than 80% in the last decade while the team has been a loser over the last decade. And now that Jerry Jones has his new stadium that can command much higher prices than FedEx can because FedEx is pretty much a dump, Danny Boy is going to have to focus even more of his attention on the revenue streams so that JJ doesn't beat him out as the highest grossing team/stadium in the league.


Actually that is good. He focuses on the $$$ so much that he loses focus on the team. He knows how to make money; he has no idea at all how to run a football operation.