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Bill Simmons Comments on Redskins Woes, Not Fond of Dan Snyder

Bill Simmons signs a copy of his book and adds in his thoughts on the Redskins.

Bill Simmons signs a copy of his book and adds in his thoughts on the Redskins.

There's not much to say. Cooley is lost for the year and the Redskins predictably lost to the Eagles. Some friends I tailgate with decided to leave the game early since Bill Simmons was doing a book signing at the ESPN Zone downtown. Sounded like a good plan to me and off we went.

I have never experienced Fedex traffic before since I usually tailgate post-game, but oh man. It took us an hour to get out of the lot and we left at the beginning of the fourth. Anyway, we got to the ESPN Zone and the line outside stretched 4 people wide and two city blocks. I'm not much one for lines (since ESPN was about to close) and amazingly I walked straight up to Bill Simmons table without any hassle. (It helped that a friend was near the front by coincidence).

In our brief conversation I asked him what he would do if Dan Snyder invited him to his vacation house...and Simmons replied jokingly "kill him." He shares the sentiment of a lot of fans that the Skins need to "reset" and "get rid of everybody."

Haynesworth post-game: "Urgency, heart, 'want-to,' whatever. I don't know. We're lacking a lot of stuff right now...So once we get to that point, to where we wanna do something, then we'll do something. But if we just keep going our separate ways, then we'll just keep getting slaughtered like we have."

Cooley's broken foot [Picture]

Reports of Fans getting their signs confiscated [Riggo’s Rag]  

The comedy and jokes were plentiful last night. There was Matt Millen's quote: "You can't blame people upstairs for Redskins problems." How does Millen have a job or any credibility to talk about personnel decisions?

Funny Anti-Snyderatto ESPN sign [Sports bog]

'Fire Cerrato' Highway Sign by Redskins Park [Sports Bog

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Matt Millen

is still trying to justify why he ran the Lions into the ground with some of the comments he said. It’s the players, it’s the coaches, I have nothing to do with it.

by skinsymets on Oct 27, 2009 10:25 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Or...

he just doesn’t get it or is in denial. It starts at the top and flows downhill. I even blame Snyder for ARE trying to catch a punt with his facemask. If Snyder hadn’t blown all our draft picks and pushed us out of salary cap range, third and fourth rate players wouldn’t be on the field trying to catch passes and punts, etc., or blocking for that matter.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

by Scott E on Oct 27, 2009 11:08 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

How he qualifies

as an NFL analyst is beyond me. Maybe ESPN will hire Cerrato after he finally gets canned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvIX3S0f-2c&feature=player_embedded

by VA_Skin on Oct 27, 2009 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

+25

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

by Scott E on Oct 27, 2009 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I feel for you guys

What a mess Snyder has made, and Cerrato has only managed to enable him. I’m a Cowboys fan, but even I can see that you guys deserve better from one of the league’s proudest, premier franchises.

Hope this resolves itself somehow. The NFC East isn’t the same without a fierce, dangerous Redskins team. Hang in there.

Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig loves it.

by dunkman on Oct 27, 2009 10:31 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Thank you, Sir...

a civilized Cowboy Fan. Glad to see it.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

by Scott E on Oct 27, 2009 11:08 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

+1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvIX3S0f-2c&feature=player_embedded

by VA_Skin on Oct 27, 2009 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Hope is all we have left

As a lifelong Skins fan it’s looks like we won’t have much to look forward to in most of our lifetimes. SNYDER (not Campbell, Zorn, Cerrato, the O-Line, etc…) is THE issue (not that the others are not issues, they are) and he will never SELL the team. If you haven’t heard already, the Redskins have been his “HOBBY” all of his life. The DANNY is only in his 40’s so prepare for another 40 or so years of this CRAP. It’s a fact that the ONLY hope we have is that one day he surrenders his EGO to common SENSE and brings in real FOOTBALL people to run the TEAM.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

by GeoFly on Oct 27, 2009 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I have to wonder

is this situation (and frankly, the one in Oakland) something Goodell would think about stepping into at some point? I know that sounds a little out of the box, but the NFL and the franchise’s fans deserve a lot better than this. All teams have down years, but as long as management is decent, they climb back out of it and fans have that eternal hope we all get every pre-season.

Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig loves it.

by dunkman on Oct 27, 2009 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I dont' think it will ever happen

A) The Redskins make tons of money, and that’s what matters most

B) (repeat A.)

C) The league is very wary of interfering with ownership.

If Dan Snyder cared about anything besides his ego he'd hire a good GM and take a back seat.

by smutsboy1 on Oct 27, 2009 5:20 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I dunno...

A.) Can’t be true w/ how empty the stadium is and everyone boycotting buying gear.

C.) The NFL is a business. They can’t have a part of their business being a laughing stock and hurting the image of the NFL….which the Skins are doing and displayed on MNF.

by KevinE on Oct 27, 2009 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

They would fix Cleveland or Oakland before us anyways

But then again we are the only football fans to ever suffer.

by BayAreaBullet on Oct 27, 2009 5:51 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

They could care less

as long as the Franchise makes $’s

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

by GeoFly on Nov 1, 2009 5:34 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

It's called sharing....
Haynesworth post-game: “Urgency, heart, ‘want-to,’ whatever. I don’t know. We’re lacking a lot of stuff right now…So once we get to that point, to where we wanna do something, then we’ll do something. But if we just keep going our separate ways, then we’ll just keep getting slaughtered like we have.”

When one or two players get all the money…you become a divided football team unless there is some really strong leadership. HA!

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

by Scott E on Oct 27, 2009 11:11 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Fedex....

Each week Fedex finds new ways to disappoint me. Since all the people we usually sit with are now long gone, I had some dude in Ravens jersey laying into me to sit down (Skins were in the red zone). I told him I’ve been here 5 years and this is what I do.

His wife, in a Skins jersey, took my side and shut him up…but then a dude 2 rows back in a Yankees hat starting laying into me (it was a 3rd down play and our D was on the field).

Gimme a break. I guess when your team is bad, people who normally care about the Skins get free tickets and decide to come, but give me a break. Ideally, I just buy a parking pass and stay in the parking lot for the game with DirectTv.

by KevinE on Oct 27, 2009 11:20 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

We need more people like you

at the games. Too many fans sit there like it’s a friggin silent auction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvIX3S0f-2c&feature=player_embedded

by VA_Skin on Oct 27, 2009 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

A silent auction...

at church.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

by Scott E on Oct 27, 2009 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I was told to sit down by one of the security guys with no one sitting within 3 rows behind me. Ridiculous.

by travisjh86 on Oct 27, 2009 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I’ll never stop going unless we get another stadium of course, then I’ll never stop going there.

by travisjh86 on Oct 28, 2009 12:05 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Steinberg is posting lots of stuff on this...

I was just reading articles where fans were being told their tickets and parking passes would be stripped.

Man..it’s turned into a total “us vs them”…..ugh.

by KevinE on Oct 27, 2009 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

simmons has always been a favorite of mine

because he’s not afraid to say what a whole lot of us are thinking. Just wait til he wakes up and finds that he was prophetic again about the curse of the clippers (see Blake Griffins knee fracture). I have to say, I liked what I saw out of the D last night. Granted we gave up some big plays, but you can’t be perfect all of the time, on one it’s well executed blocking by some wideouts and on the other our safety bit on a fake, it happens sometimes. I can even understand our offensive woes, three guys either in positions that they didn’t start in or weren’t starting to begin with. While some of the sacks are indeed on their inability to execute properly some are on Jason for simply not dumping the ball or in some cases, running into the pressure. Pretty obvious that the guy has second guessing himself disease and flat out refuses to trust himself to throw the ball downfield. I also wish he would show a little urgency and coax his guys a bit and LEAD them. It’s like he doesn’t believe we can win and so it’s just that the expression on his face is the same in the first five minutes of the game as it is in the last five.

I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused....

by piratedan7 on Oct 27, 2009 11:34 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Bill Simmonds gets it.

If Dan Snyder cared about anything besides his ego he'd hire a good GM and take a back seat.

by smutsboy1 on Oct 27, 2009 11:41 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Cooley's injury

Now we will see if Fred Davis really deserves a roster spot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvIX3S0f-2c&feature=player_embedded

by VA_Skin on Oct 27, 2009 11:56 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Davis

Looks like he has some quickness and great hands. But he did get run over by Cole when trying to pass block…it was bad.

by liger99 on Oct 27, 2009 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

why is he still hurdling?

why hasn’t the team explicitly told him never to hurdle ever again?

it’s comical.

If Dan Snyder cared about anything besides his ego he'd hire a good GM and take a back seat.

by smutsboy1 on Oct 27, 2009 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Thats good coaching

stuff like this is what a coach should be focusing on.

I think it’s comical how much attention was given to Zorn’s play calling when most of the coaches in the NFL don’t call plays, particularly the successful ones. Castrated him, really?

Where does the bad coaching show up? In the team’s lack of preparation, lack of fitness, lack of focus.

by snowburnt on Oct 27, 2009 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

He was bad in pass pro

But that’s a straight Spurrier move to have a TE block the other teams best pass rusher.

by BayAreaBullet on Oct 27, 2009 1:28 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions   0 recs

says it all

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

by GeoFly on Oct 27, 2009 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Is it true that People were kicked out for chanting?

Paying costumers were kicked out for expressing their feelings? Is this still America?

by brettpedigo on Oct 27, 2009 2:35 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

yes. people weren't cursing or anything

check it:

http://www.extremeskins.com/showthread.php?t=306198

also, ALL signs are permanently banned

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2009/10/signs_banned

Stay classy, Danny.

If Dan Snyder cared about anything besides his ego he'd hire a good GM and take a back seat.

by smutsboy1 on Oct 27, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Thanks for the answer

How can anyone go again? I really want to know how people will give money to be oppressed? Our forefathers died to give us freedom!!!!!!

by brettpedigo on Oct 27, 2009 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

lol

If Dan Snyder cared about anything besides his ego he'd hire a good GM and take a back seat.

by smutsboy1 on Oct 27, 2009 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Us, suckers

As long as we, suckers, still buy tickets and merchandises, and show up at the stadium every Sunday, we should not expect him to listen to us.

by kqlno1 on Oct 27, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I didn't renew my tickets

it’s too expensive to watch a team that crappy.

If Dan Snyder cared about anything besides his ego he'd hire a good GM and take a back seat.

by smutsboy1 on Oct 27, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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