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Ultimately, Snyder's crime is not producing a winner. When you win, nobody cares what kind of a person you are - Exhibit A - The Skins' previous owner Jack Kent Cooke.

Not true. Snyder's crime has been his wanton destruction of a storied franchise. He took one of the premier teams of the NFL and made it a laughing stock. He could be forgiven for not having a winner if it weren't for the fact that every singler bad move by the Redskins in over 10 years was done at his direction! From the horrible fan experience at FedEx (which improved somewhat this year) to the terrible, stupid, boneheaded personnel moves, ie hiring McNabb and Haynesworth and the revolving door to the head coach's office. I mean really...who else in the NFL would have hired Jim Zorn as head coach and then once that stupid move was made who else, (besides Al Davis) would have treated the gguy in such a disrespectful, shabby and dishonest way? No sorry my friend but Snyder is guilty on many, many crimes...not just of not producing a winner.

Again - Not trying to be an apologist for Snyder. I'm not. I bleed burgundy and gold. The guy has screwed up with "my team" over and over. My point is that if the Skins had three more Lombardis in the trophy case under Snyder's reign, the City Paper wouldn't be running articles blaming him for the vendors selling expired peanuts. (Which is one the "crimes" listed about him.) Instead it would be full of the stories about his charities, how willing he has been to spend on the team and how he does stuff like let Albert Haynesworth use the team jet to fly to his half brother's funeral. It would all be sunshine and gumdrops from the media around here. I don't think he should be given a pass for anything he has done that is wrong with the team or in his public life. He has screwed up, big time. However, I'll stand by my belief that if the team was successful on the field, this cottage industry of constantly writing everything negative possible about the guy wouldn't exist.

From the time Gibbs left the first time until Snyder purchased the team, the Skins had a .380 winning percentage and plenty of terrible personnel decisions. (Shuler? Westbrook? Andre Johnson?) Since Snyder brought the team, a .447 winning percentage. Not acceptable. Not good enough by any stretch but if anything, really just continuing the trend that started after Gibbs left.

Snyder has added too many seats, but FedEx is a mess because of Cooke as far as I am concerned. He built it on the cheap so it could be done before he died. It got built there because he made too many enemies to build it elsewhere (And naming it Raljon? Seriously?)

At 6-2 the Zorn hire was being called brilliant. At 4-12 a disaster. Same guy right? His record is what the hire is judged on. Exact same thing with the Broncos and McDaniels.

Most of the last TWENTY years has been brutal. I still love my team though.