roybus14 wrote:Daniel Snyder is a good owner but not a smart one. He is definitely willing to spend money to get this team better and I am grateful for that. But Danny has to learn how to be smart and look at the bigger picture. Contiunity and Stability wins championships. He can spend all of the money he wants but until you put a team (players and coaches) out there that have had the benefit of time together and developing a program, you will get what we have now.
I don't fault Snyder for bringing back Gibbs because he probably didn't know like us fans that Gibbs was going to be a shell of his former self who was to scared or cautious to take chances and who while showing loyalty to Brunell, hurt this team. Now, if Snyder decides that Zorn is his coach allows him to built a solid system over the next 2-4 years with minimal changes, I think that there could be success. Unless Zorn cracks under the pressure and cannot get this team to "buy-in" and develop continuity, we should see some success.
Nobody ever said Danny was a bad guy. I would even argue that he's fairly brilliant, given that he's made billions of dollars. But the problem is not his character or his intelligence, it's his ego. Danny's teams fail because he treats the team like it's his toy, his personal hobby. People keep saying things like 'Danny picked Moss, it was Williams who picked Archuleta! So Danny's a good personnel guy!' Nonsense. Danny is an amateur in a game for professionals. My guess is, he doesn't even know what he doesn't know, and the words most professional GM's LONG TO HEAR MORE THAN ANYTHING is 'Danny Snyder's on the phone!'. Danny treats this team like it's his own fantasy football team, and he's out of his league. WAY out of his league. Is he stupid for not seeing that? No. He's just stubborn. He thinks, 'I made billions in advertising, I'm sure I'm smart enough to be a winner in this football thing!'. But he has no background in football. No contacts. No culture that pervades the state, like it does with Jones in Texas. Failure is the most likely result going forward.
If Danny was to do the right thing by this team, it would be to treat it like the business it is and hand it over to professionals, just as Cooke did, and confine his activities to yearly reviews and entertaining celebrities in the owners box. Does this guarantee success? Obviously not. First, you have to have the smarts of Cooke to pick the right guy, like Beathard, or as the owners of the Pats did with their GM, or the Colts (finally) with theirs. Just based on my observations, this is how you win.
As far as Gibbs goes, I don't think anybody, even Gibbs himself, realized how much of his success was due to Beathard. Beathard picked all the best, HOF players we had in those days: Monk, Green, etc. He even picked Gibbs, for God's sake. The team was already in decline when Gibbs left, after a couple of years of the godawful Casserly. People say Casserly was a good GM but I put him in the same category as Cerrato: an organization guy who's great at taking credit for successes and blaming failures on other people. Corporations are FULL of these types of people. How do you tell them from the real thing? Results. Losers work for losing organizations. Winners work for winners.