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CBS Sportsline: "Star-struck Snyder can't win Super Bowls, so he collects trophies"

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From CBS Sportsline.

Star-struck Snyder can't win Super Bowls, so he collects trophies.

The little man with the gold bouillon probably could not resist. Tom Cruise was for sale. So what does a billionaire squirt who already owns an NFL team, a theme park, media companies, and a few dozen yes men do next to feel important? He purchases a movie star, of course.

http://www.cbs.sportsline.com/columns/story/9657716

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jivelikenice

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I think Snyder gets a bum rap but I do have some concerns about how this team is run:

1. We have not built depth across the lines in the draft due to our lack of draft picks.

2. I have no prblem with spending on the franchise, my problem is with how we spend. Why commit $30 million to AA when we could have had Ryan Clark for $5 million? We could have used those funds to build line depth or bring in a quality kicker!

3. We will have holes to fill at corner and line next offseason but we'll have only 1 pick on the first day of the draft to address these shortcomings.

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This article is a piece of trash make crazy statements like this:

While Hall of Famers like the Rooney family, the late Wellington Mara or future Hall of Famer Robert Kraft focused on building teams the proper way, Snyder has always cared more about which A-lister is sitting where in his box. The welfare of the league, small markets, salary cap manifestations. Forget it. He's not interested.

Now, Mara did care for this league and made the decisions usually thinking of the league before the team. While I could say he did it since he had no choice because he was around when the team wouldn't survive without a league that wasn't on solid ground and nowadays the league is on solid footing. But I won't say that. What I will say is that the ONLY reason we are actually playing this year with a CBA is because the owners of the big market teams , INCLUDING DAN SNYDER , made the decision to put the small market teams' concerns, and the league as a whole, before their own priorities. Period.

This guy should be fired for this article. :doh:

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Here's the article in full:

The little man with the gold bouillon probably could not resist. Tom Cruise was for sale. So what does a billionaire squirt who already owns an NFL team, a theme park, media companies, and a few dozen yes men do next to feel important? He purchases a movie star, of course.

They looked so cute together in the owner's box the other night, didn't they? Cruise with his flaming brunette hairdo, dark sunglasses at night and Army Ranger security force, and Snyder with his bloated, overrated team. It's a match made in megalomaniac, Napoleonic-complex heaven.

When Cruise was blasted from his $10 mil per Paramount Pictures deal, Snyder could not resist. "Ooooh, goody," he probably thought, "another toy for the collection."

It was Monday Night Football, which meant eyeballing cameras, sweaty paparazzi, and a raucous, plucky arena. Snyder rolled out his new man-toy unable to resist the spotlight and jammed his box with other worshipping celebrities including Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Peter Pace (isn't there a war on?).

Then Snyder's team did what it has mostly done since Snyder purchased it and jammed it predominantly with bad free-agent signings and big-name has-beens: it lost.

TomKat's appearance at the Minnesota-Washington game exemplifies why Snyder will never win a championship. Never, ever, never. That is the most stone cold lock of a football guarantee ever made.

Snyder has celebrity deficit disorder. He cares more about the hype and the stars than he does taking the time to patiently grow a successful football franchise. He cares more about squashing his critics in the media (he counterattacks writers through the team's official website) or trying to buy them off (he purchased his own fan website and radio stations). Snyder employees, I believe, pose as fans and blast media members on various message boards.

While Hall of Famers like the Rooney family, the late Wellington Mara or future Hall of Famer Robert Kraft focused on building teams the proper way, Snyder has always cared more about which A-lister is sitting where in his box. The welfare of the league, small markets, salary cap manifestations. Forget it. He's not interested.

The late Mara once told me, when asked if he had ever met Snyder: "Yes, we've met. I wouldn't use the word charming with him, but he's been fine." Mara continued, "I don't agree with a lot of what he has done, and I don't want to get specific about what I don't like. He is entitled to do what he wants because he paid $800 million for the team. A lot of us old fogeys wish we had made as much money as he has at that age. But I wonder if he is the type of person who will only look out for himself, instead of the well-being of the entire league."

Mara made those remarks some time back but they still hold true today.

One of the most stunning stories in football over the past several years is while Snyder has turned his team into a giant ATM off the field, on the field, this once fearsome, hungry franchise has been transformed into a slobbering herbivore.

The league needs Washington to be good the way it needs New York teams or Green Bay to be competent. The franchise is too important to the NFL. When it stinks, the league just is not the same.

If you grow up in D.C., you cherish this team. You dress up in their garb and live and die with them. I still have all of my Washington gear: the gloves, the jacket, the wool hat. It's now somewhere in a box and will emerge again only once Snyder sells the team. Or Cruise wins an Academy Award.

The biggest problem is Washington has not been productive despite all of the money Snyder has sunk into big name player acquisitions. During his tenure as owner Snyder is 54-59 with two playoff appearances. No NFL owner in history has ever sunk as much signing bonus money into a franchise and gotten so little from those investments as Snyder. So Snyder might actually be making suckiness history.

Never thought I would say this, but the Cincinnati Bengals are a better franchise right now than Washington.

It is no shock that the Minnesota Vikings, not a great group, post-Pornoboat scandal and all, embarrassed Snyder's football team in the home opener. Not even Joe Gibbs, football royalty, will be able to rescue my once favorite team, my hometown team, from the fumbling clutches of the man Profootballtalk.com aptly nicknamed SnyderBrenner (a combo of Snyder and Yankees owner George Steinbrenner). Steinbrenner at least has numerous rings and the free agents he signs continue to be All-Stars.

When Snyder signs a Pro Bowler, he becomes a Pro Bowler no more.

SnyderBrenner is not an owner, he's P.T. Barnum. He doesn't care about football. He cares mostly about the stars and the spectacle and the political pundits who show up to play smoochy-face with him. The stars make him feel important, they make him feel taller.

Of course, collecting stars has nothing to do with winning football games. Snyder has signed Deion Sanders and Steve Spurrier to mega-deals and still has as many championships as Bill Bidwill.

One day, when he is done pillaging the bank accounts of Washington football fans (he was after all the first to charge fans for attending training camp practices) it will hit SnyderBrenner. He will notice how the New England Patriots built a dynasty utilizing smart drafting, treating the salary cap with respect and making wise free agent selections based on real needs, not Q-rating. You don't sign Elvis. You sign Elvis Grbac.

We've seen this before. It's the movie Titanic. We know what happens. Cue the iceberg. Cue 9-7, at best, again. And again. And again. High expectations followed by raging mediocrity.

When Cruise lost his $10 million a year deal, the Boston Herald, with the use of salary.com, figured that it would take a housekeeper making $19,934 a year 502 years to earn what Cruise did.

If Snyder were immortal -- and please don't give him any ideas -- it would still take him longer than that to win a Super Bowl.

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why do you guys keep pointing out these articles? when the offense is clicking by the 3rd or 4 th game snyder will be a genius who just bought a super bowl. AS will be hailed as the greatest OC in history. then when they lose another game it will be that the moves were bad decisions and snyder is an idiot. reporters are worse than regular fans when it comes to this.

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so wait....Snyder has a Movie star in his booth....and that effects the TEAM how exactly?

Haters.

Ive bashed Snyder before...ok that is the truth...but keep the bashings as they RELATE TO WHAT GOES ON THE FIELD.

This Tom Cruise thing has ZERO to do with the guys on the field...until Tom Cruise is financed for a movie that interferes with the Redskins salary payouts or takes priority over signing a player that Gibbs requests then WHO GIVES A RATS ASS.

These media guys are absurd.

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LOL! Ok, atleast he is a Skins fan and he is entitled to his opiniong. To tell you the truth, I did not like the fact that Cruise and Fox were in the box. But to say he ruined this team, thats BS! Because Randel El was a god in Pitt, not he sucks? Everyone gloated about Saunders and GW, now they suck? This kind of crap disgusts me.

He spends money because he has it. If I gave that guy 500 mill, what would he do with it? Probably buy him some toys (cars, jewlery and all)! So he needs to shutup. Just because you dont like how he spends the money, doesn't mean the Redskins are ruinied. I think our fans and team are all coming together and when the season ends, it will show!

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This is such a poor display of vindictive journalism. I don't understand these guys who want to paint Synder as a monster. Do I think he's a great guy? No, but what does that have to do with anything. The part about the free-agents is just plain wrong: Moss, Washington, Griffin, Springs--this article is crap.

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Wow, I'm a little speechless.

He had Wellington Mara quotes, an Elvis sighting, sunk the titanic again, said the bungles are a better franchise, and guaranteed we will never win a super bowl with Snyder.

I'm very frustrated with this team right now, but damn. That actually hurt to read. :(

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jbooma

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And he was a Redskin fan? Since when does a Redskin fan put his gloves, jacket and wool cap in a box? Good riddance. We don't want or need so called fans like that jerk.

There have been certain fans to not agree with a team because of an owner look at Baltimore and Angelos etc...

He is entitled to his opinion. I do not agree with many of Synder's decisons but he brought Joe back and if anyone could get us a ring it is him.

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LOL! Ok, atleast he is a Skins fan and he is entitled to his opiniong. To tell you the truth, I did not like the fact that Cruise and Fox were in the box.

I have to admit, when I first saw ol' Tom in the box, I couldn't stop thinking of Ricky Bobby yelling 'Help me Tom Cruise!' :)

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