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Snyder can apologize, but it is his mess to clean up
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Snyder looking confused on the sideline. during the preseason.
Have you ever returned home from the grocery store, realize your bread is smashed or a few eggs are cracked, and instantly started to rip in to whoever bagged your stuff, only to remember you went through the self check out lane? It is a truly humbling moment.
Welcome to the way Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder should feel every morning.
Snyder came out this week and publicly announced that his beloved Redskins have “let everyone down,” and he feels horrible about it. He went on to elaborate on how disappointing this season has been and how awful he feels for his once loyal fan base.
In the ten years Snyder’s Redskins have made the playoffs only three times, none of which have resulted in a Super Bowl appearance, and have a winning percentage under .500, with their last season of double-digit wins coming in 2005. Snyder has also blown through multiple coaching staffs, including legendary coaches Marty Schottenhelmer and Joe Gibbs, and also been super aggressive on the free agent market, including bringing in older high profile players such as Bruce Smith, Deion Sanders, and Jeff George, just to name a few. All of which have only managed to use Washington as nothing more than a stepping-stone towards retirement.
More recently Snyder has angered his fan base by suing fans that were not able to pay for their seats and banning all signs and banners at games. He has also removed play calling duties from his head coach Jim Zorn and gave them to retired coach and famed bingo caller Sherman Lewis. All this while producing a team with a record of 2-5, with their only wins coming against the Rams and Buccaneers, and carrying the burden of being the only team to lose to the Detroit Lions in the past two seasons.
The whole situation is a mess and there is no doubt that come season’s end Jim Zorn will take the fall for it, becoming Snyder’s most recent scapegoat. Realistically though, it all falls on Snyder. He packed this grocery sack; he smashed the bread, broke the eggs, and mixed the cold stuff in with the detergent. Granted Zorn has faults of his own, but what do you expect when handed a bag like that?
Redskins’ fans don’t want an apology; they don’t want to know that you are suffering just as much as they are. They want a product they can be proud on Sundays, rather than ashamed of on Mondays.
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