Whats Your Opinion of Dan Snyder?

[SkinsFan4Life2003]

We all know the amount of hate our owner Dan Snyder receives from the media, but how do you feel he has progressed as an owner?

[PennSkinsFan]

Dan's a great owner that has evolved int he role. He will be the first to tell you that he made mistakes, but he will also tell you he learned from them and I believe him because of his actions. He has turned teh team over to Gibbs and has been faithful to allowing Gibbs to mold HIS team. Media can hate all they want, but Dan Snyder has evolvedinto a fine owner.

[RedskinRyan]

its still a little early to tell, but i think those 4-12 preseason predictions were a bit off. after the season i'll evaluate the moves, although i dont think they refelt snyder but gibbs. i think snyder is doing a fine job letting gibbs do his thing.

[SkinsFan4Life2003]

its still a little early to tell, but i think those 4-12 preseason predictions were a bit off. after the season i'll evaluate the moves, although i dont think they refelt snyder but gibbs. i think snyder is doing a fine job letting gibbs do his thing.
I see your point, but I was thinking more of an overall sense of his perfomance not just this past year.

[HogPin_Redskin]

i think snyder is doing a fine job letting gibbs do his thing.

mos def. first of all he went out and got back the greatest coach to bless DC and its even better cuz snyder is a die hard redskins fan just like us. hes a good guy and him and Gibbs will bring greatness back to washington.

[Carmelo]

Since the very beginning, and I stress since the very beginning, I have always loved Snyder for one reason: He loves the skins as much as I do and he hates the cowgirls as much as I do. Nuff said!

[ryflan47]

Honestly, I love the guy.

[Redskin Scott]

To date an irresponsible and impetuous child with a tremendous amount of money and no football sense. All I've seen during his time as owner has been a non-football guy who treats my beloved squad like his own personal fantasy team. It's truly deplorable.

Perhaps he's experiencing a transformation of late, I can't really say. It will take a great deal of time and demonstrated non-interference in football operations for me to retract the above and sing a new tune about Mr. Snyder. I had a world of respect for Mr. Cooke, but that respect was earned and well-deserved.

[Spence]

Not a fan.

[ObiWan1278]

How can any redskin fan not be a fan of snyder. The man has done everything a owner can do to win. He hasn't been afraid to open his check book. He has went after good coaches, and he has pained and cheered with us with the skins performance. I mean it sucks that his moves haven't paid off yet, but its not cause he isn't trying. Only thing I haven't liked under his tenure is how Art Monk was let go. After that...he has been all I can ask for from a owner, and thank god the skins were not sold to a owner like the Cardinals owner

[The Iceman]

I like him. I think that he made the best offseason move of any owner in 2003 by going out and getting Gibbs. This is a guy who was away from the game for 11 years, and Snyder knew that he had to get him back to bring back that winning tradition. Excellent move.

Snyder is coming along. He still likes to have his hand in the cookie jar, but I think that he let's Joe do his thing. Hopefully he'll have that same respect for the next coach. (G. Williams)

[Spence]

How can any redskin fan not be a fan of snyder. The man has done everything a owner can do to win. He hasn't been afraid to open his check book. He has went after good coaches, and he has pained and cheered with us with the skins performance. I mean it sucks that his moves haven't paid off yet, but its not cause he isn't trying. Only thing I haven't liked under his tenure is how Art Monk was let go. After that...he has been all I can ask for from a owner, and thank god the skins were not sold to a owner like the Cardinals ownerFirstly, Art Monk was cut by Norv Turner five years before anyone had heard of Dan Snyder. secondly, Snyder has interfered with his coaches, run the team as a GM despite his obvious lack of qualifications for that job, he's spent money on the wrong people [like cutting Brian Mitchell so he could sign ol' Deion "Nine Toes" Sanders], and he vastly overpaid for a bunch of Jets players who never paid off. To say nothing of indulging me-first players like Bruce Smith. I'm also not to keen on the way he tried to keep fans from walking to the stadium. I don't walk there, but I know people who do and his reason for trying to stop them was greed.

Not a fan of his.

[Death_Venom]

Overall I have always liked Dan Synder and his love of the Redskins. Obviously he made some seriously misguided decisions in bringing talent here, and over-paying them. Part of the desire to win sometimes manifests itself thru control which Dan Synder exercised over a few of the recent HC's. I think Dan has learned that you CANNOT create a truly competitive football team by purchasing talent (albeit some of talent was in their twilight years).

[bgforever]

We all know the amount of hate our owner Dan Snyder receives from the media, but how do you feel he has progressed as an owner?

Enormously. here in Indy he gained more respect as well for his huge efforf for ALL flood victims in ALL the states, not just Louisiana. His hands off is for real, in spite of what you may have heard. I see only JG and GW control in the roster and moves right now. (LA was an example).

[Rich77]

We all know the amount of hate our owner Dan Snyder receives from the media, but how do you feel he has progressed as an owner?

Snyder is smart and passionate about his team. Being rich does not hurt things.

[Redskinfan28]

I think he sucks, mainly because he jacks his prices up so much that only morons like me will pay. :banghead:

[garedskin]

I have liked him from the begining.He does what ever he can to help get the franchise back to where it once was.What more can you ask for?Yeah he has made mistakes but hell who hasnt? If you dont ever make a mistake then you really are not giving it 110% like Snyder has been doing since the day he bought the team.Getting Gibbs out of retirement should tell you alot.Jerry Jones was too damn proud to ask Jimmy Johnson(after he fired him because he recieved the credit of turning that franchise around in the early 90's) to come back and fix his cowpukes again.Snyder right or wrong always tries to make the best moves for OUR Redskins year after year.Got respect that. :Peace:

[BigCountry]

Came this close to running the franchise into the ground. Since he took over it's been from bad to worse mainly because he was always trying to make headlines. However, the biggest headline he made may have saved him from a horrific disaster. Can't look past what he almost did just yet.

[Redskinfan28]

I have liked him from the begining.He does what ever he can to help get the franchise back to where it once was.What more can you ask for?Yeah he has made mistakes but hell who hasnt? If you dont ever make a mistake then you really are not giving it 110% like Snyder has been doing since the day he bought the team.Getting Gibbs out of retirement should tell you alot.Jerry Jones was too damn proud to ask Jimmy Johnson(after he fired him because he recieved the credit of turning that franchise around in the early 90's) to come back and fix his cowpukes again.Snyder right or wrong always tries to make the best moves for OUR Redskins year after year.Got respect that. :Peace:

I disagree - he has always tried to make moves that will sell tickets and bring in money. He has been successful in doing that.

[BigPlayJay]

I like him. The claims that he took over and made the franchise worse are factually wrong. His first year was the only playoff appearance in the last decade. Before someone tells me that Casserly built that team, remember that a few key late additions (like Larry Centers) were what pushed that team past the mediocrity they had settled into in the 90's. He screwed up in 2000 with the Deon move, which was by far his worst move. Most of the other moves that year at least made sense on paper.

2001 and after he made some moves that went bad but most of them were moves that seemed to make sense at the time. It seems like he has learned quite a bit and has things on the right track now. He is a brilliant business man who has transformed this franchise into a cash cow! I think he came in to the NFL thinking he could pick this business right up, but he was taught some tough lessons.

To sum up I like him. I think he is improving. There is a very short list of owners I would rather have than him. The real test of where he is will be when Gibbs departs again.

One thing I can't stand is all the direspectful, insulting, macho talk about him by the media and even fans. I would love to see how these people reacted to meeting him face to face!

[Kope65]

I love him- because of his learning curve. He has gotten better every year and that is all you can ask

[Spence]

I like him. The claims that he took over and made the franchise worse are factually wrong. His first year was the only playoff appearance in the last decade. Before someone tells me that Casserly built that team, remember that a few key late additions (like Larry Centers) were what pushed that team past the mediocrity they had settled into in the 90's.Snyder made none of those moves. He had nothing to do with assembling the roster for the 1999 team because he took over too late during the offseason. The best year the Redskins have had since Snyder took over was the one in which he made no personnel decisions.

One thing I can't stand is all the direspectful, insulting, macho talk about him by the media and even fans. I would love to see how these people reacted to meeting him face to face!I can't imagine too many people would be physically intimidated by Daniel Snyder. He's a hobbit.

[whitskins]

Snyder's the man. He brought back Gibbs and opens his wallet. Once he got the right people to make the personel moves he's been fine.

[redskin_rich]

He's better than 2/3rds of the owners in the league. We could be a lot worse off, I'm happy with him as our owner.

[BigPlayJay]

Snyder made none of those moves. He had nothing to do with assembling the roster for the 1999 team because he took over too late during the offseason. The best year the Redskins have had since Snyder took over was the one in which he made no personnel decisions.

I can't imagine too many people would be physically intimidated by Daniel Snyder. He's a hobbit.

Snyder was the one who pushed the Centers deal. That is a fact.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/chats/clarke082499.htm

Arlington, Va.: What was the "feel" of training camp? Does the entire organization seem more motivated and afraid of losing? What do you think of Danny Snyder's changes thus far?
Liz Clarke: To borrow a phrase from Norv Turner, camp did have a heightened "sense of urgency" this year, which I think has a lot to do with coaches and players sensing that their jobs may be on the line. But credit should also go to Larry Centers on offense and Marco Coleman on defense. The intensity that these guys brought to practice was several levels above their peers, and it really did seem to rub off. Snyder's early moves have been marked by enthusiasm and a zeal for winning. He'll be judged ultimately on weighty moves to come: How the 3 first-round draft picks are used and any major personnel changes to come.

On the other point I was not suggesting tha Daniel Snyder was going to beat people up. I am saying that if you met him face to face you would not refer to him as " danny boy". By the way if you did meet him face to face I'd like to see you threaten the "hobbit" physically and see how fast his security had you out of there.

[CowboyKilla]

Two Thumbs up.

[greatest2]

I've said this about Snyder from the beginning.

- the best OWNER in the National Football league
- spends any amount of money on players and coaches, great buisness man

- the worst GENERAL MANAGER
- Should leave the football to the people that know it cause he doesn't/

As soon as he gets it through his thick skull he will be the PERFECT owner.

P.S.- the only reason he is letting gibbs be GM (team president) is because he worships the guy (as do I:lol1: ). The test will come when a new coach comes he doesn't worship...

[Brokenstriker]

I think Dan is showing great progress in practice. He's not gifted physically and has never been known as a gym rat, but he's a smart player and gets the most out of technique. Very coachable but does have a penchant for taunting and the occasional cheap hit, I mean late hit (nothing cheap about him).

A few more years of study, holding the clipboard and I think he could turn out to be a solid starter in the right circumstances.

[SkinsFan4Life2003]

I disagree - he has always tried to make moves that will sell tickets and bring in money. He has been successful in doing that.

If you're looking at this from a strictly business standpoint, Snyder has been the best owner in American Sports. No team in American Sports has made a bigger profit in the last 5 years than the Redskins.

[Spence]

Snyder was the one who pushed the Centers deal. That is a fact.I don't really see how that's a fact, but what's the significance of it? Centers was a nice player, but the Redskins didn't make the playoffs because of him and I don't see how that balances out all the massive overspending on players who were mediocre or way past their prime. And it certainly doesn't justify making it clear to all and sundry that star players were more important than the team.

On the other point I was not suggesting tha Daniel Snyder was going to beat people up. I am saying that if you met him face to face you would not refer to him as " danny boy". By the way if you did meet him face to face I'd like to see you threaten the "hobbit" physically and see how fast his security had you out of there.Of course I wouldn't refer to him as "Danny boy." I'm not in the habit of being rude to people -- even people who almost deserve it. I'm also not in the habit of physically threatening people who are no threat to me. But am I supposed to be impressed that he's rich enough to afford security guards to protect him? Tori Spelling can do that, too. If a phalanx of beefy guards is what qualifies a person to own the Redskins, I suppose we could turn the team over to her.

[Spence]

If you're looking at this from a strictly business standpoint, Snyder has been the best owner in American Sports. No team in American Sports has made a bigger profit in the last 5 years than the Redskins.What sort of fan looks at it from a strictly business standpoint? I'm not interested in how the Redskins do on the balance sheet, I'm interested in how they do on the football field. The Eagles are not nearly as profitable as the Redskins, but they win many more games. Which do you think matters more to Philly fans?

[BigPlayJay]

Man Spence, you sure are grouchy for the night after a win!

[BandWagon]

Winning improves my opinion of a lot of things. But that said, I've always felt that Dan's heart was in the right place and if ever got things going, look out! He's going to be an owner for a very, very long time.

[Emmanouel8]

I have mixed feelings about Snyder. I like his passion and willingness to make this team a winner at all cost and is one that will not not sit still for losing.

I don't really like how involved he is. I didn't like the 'back door' policy he eligidly had. I don't like the instability he's fostered. the guy should hire defensive coordinators as his head coaches after Gibbs and hire and fire the offensive coordinators. He's clearly obsessed w/ the offense but we've gone through so many good defensive coord. W/ every head coaching change comes a bigger change than w/ a coord change.

All in all I can appreciate Dan for the most part, I lived in AZ through college and know a thing or two about really bad ownership and the frustrations that come along w/ that. Whoo

[colkurtz]

1. Team has been under .500 overall during his ownership.
2. He made some absolutely horrible football decisions in the first couple of years: Deon? Jeff George? 5 coaches in 5 years?
3. He has spent the max on player salaries every season and manages the cap well.
4. He is willing to pay all the coaches WELL ABOVE normal NFL rates to keep them here.
5. After being a terrible GM he gave all the football and personnel decisions to Joe Gibbs. He brought Jow Gibbs back to DC.
6. Improved a great deal as an owner and will spend what it takes to win.

I see his contributing to a newly stable franchise and winning seasons to come from his efforts.

[smoak]

I think he started in this league as a disgusting jerk and has really matured into a solid owner. Yes, he milks the fan base for every cent of revenue possibl, but you know what... He puts money into the team. you have to respect that...

[Battle Cat]

I have always like Dan as an owner. He was a little misguided at first. But I felt every year he did all he could to get the Redskins to win. He did not always do the right thing or the smart thing. But I truly believe that in his mind strange as it is he always felt he was doing all he could.

[Ibleedburgundy]

I like Dan Snyder and think the negative attention on him was about 25% warrented and 75% overblown by people who are jealous of his $$$. Ever since Joe Gibbs came back Dan has been an ideal owner (except for raising beer prices). He's kept his nose out of the GM's office and maintained a very low profile. Plus, he is a true Redskins fan.

[JoeJacksonTaylor28]

I LOVE (as an owner :) ) Dan Snyder. He is a great Redskins' fan, he just wants them to win and is willing to do whatever he can to help them (letting Gibbs do his thing). Can't ask for anything more from an owner.

[ttr77]

I don't understand why everyone always points to the fact that he is willing to open up his wallet to bring in players/coaches. Dan Snyder's wallet would be thinner than mine is after going to one of their games if it weren't for the fans paying for the tickets, beer, parking, food, and listening to the non-stop blitz of commercials during the games. If I were a stockholder in the Redskins corporation (which is what he has turned the team into) I would LOVE him. But as a consumer (which he probably considers the 90k that show up every game) that spends far too much to go to these games, I do not care for him.

[dj_stouty]

I've always been in Danny's corner...and I will continue to be in his corner as he tries to get this program moving. It has been a tough 6 seasons, but I think they payoff is finally around the corner.

I'd much rather have an owner who tries to win, instead of an owner who doesn't.

(Oh...I forgot. My only beef with him is the cash parking lots...)

[skinswin]

We all know the amount of hate our owner Dan Snyder receives from the media, but how do you feel he has progressed as an owner?


As long as little Nepoleon stays out the way, he's okay with me. Just sign the checks and shut up Snyder.

[GoDannyBoy]

I am glad that we have him as an owner.

He brought Gibbs back and has never said no to salary to get the players his coaches have said he needed.

But a hands off approach for him seems to be in everyones interest.

[JamieAsherRevisited]

I need a little more time to figure Snyder out. So far his biggest problem by far has been the way he's thrown money around (sometimes in good signings) and really hurt the cap a couple of years later. This has been more damaging than interfering with coaches (I don't think he made them let him call a few plays or anything).

His signings over the first 2-3 years really hurt us the past couple of offseasons. We can't sign Smoot or Pierce in 2005 because he wanted these splash signings with Armstead and Trotter in 2002. It's not just that he signs these guys, but I think he wants to make a statement to the rest of the league and outbids the next guy by a few million or so. This is the stuff that really hurts down the road.

The signings in 2004 were great, but don't you think he overdid it with Brunell? Yeah, he deserves big money, but was he even asking for that much? Was anyone else offering Griffin or Springs that kind of money (both seen as underachievers at the time)?

Well maybe that's what he needed to do...don't know. But the thing with the tickets and parking is ridiculous. He's good at making money...guess I'm thankful that he wants to win as well.

[DallasHater]

I love the guy. If there is no salary cap, he would spend all his money to make the redskins a winning team. I do not think there is any better owner. Like somebody said: He is a die hard redskins fan and he hates dallass

[silverspring]

I love the guy. If there is no salary cap, he would spend all his money to make the redskins a winning team. I do not think there is any better owner. Like somebody said: He is a die hard redskins fan and he hates dallass

Agreed. Snyder has made a ton of mistakes, but he is smart and is learning from his mistakes quickly. Even his mistakes were made in an effort to improve the team, not in an effort to save a buck. The great thing is he loves the team and he clearly already has the business side mastered so lack of profits shouldn't ever be a reason to sell. So he looks to be the owner for a long time, and if he continues to learn he is going to be one of the best nfl owners ever.

[GoDannyBoy]

I am glad we don't have a cheap owner like some other teams. Synder will spend what it takes.

I think he has finially gotten it right.

Maybe if we can fix our late round drafts!

[SkinsFan4Life2003]

My feeling is that while in the beginning Snyder thought buying up every big name player would lead to championship, he has learned over the years of failure that it takes more than money to create a winner. Hopefully he learns from Gibbs the process of how to make a winning team. But that being said, Snyder is brilliant at marketing the Skins into the most profitable team in American sports. What impresses me is that he puts so much of that money back into the franchise. He could've very easily did the same as the Cardinals owners and just pocket the money.