Yeah that was a terrible analysis. It gives all the credit the Shanahan and the blame to Allen and Snyder. Very odd. He could have ranked us just as low and said 'Allen hasn't really been successful anywhere yet so the kindest thing we can say is the jury is still out' and that would have been fine. As it is, that article reads like some casual fan's girlfriend wrote it.
On the other hand, winning will fix all that. Just win.
I actually agree with you. Pick a direction and go with it. Shanahan had full control, but all the moves are Allen/Snyder's fault?
I agree with him about the cap - we brought that on ourselves, whether the rule was 'right' or not we knew they would do something and tested them.
On the other hand, though, there are quite a few rumors running around in redskins land that while Snyder allowed Mike to run the team, Snyder interjected himself into some of the dealings that were going on. Including, but not limited to, McNabb, Haynesworth (how he was being handled when Shanahan got here), and Griffin. The McNabb rumors go back to when he was acquired - before there was any fall out between coach and owner.
On the other hand some rumors are that Shanahan and Snyder never talked - Shanahan wanted it that way, and kept it that way. Snyder had 0 influence over anything at any time.
Who knows though. The only thing for sure is that the two sides (Shanahi vs Snyder/Allen) muddied the water so much it's impossible to tell who was responsible for what.
What a mess. It's one thing to have a disaster, it's another to not be able to evaluate what went wrong and how to move forward and make the best of it. We're in the later, as fans. If it wasn't Snyder's fault then the best we have to hope for is that he learns from it, if it was then we're simply having the wool pulled over our eyes yet again, and we'll all figure it out eventually on our own, personal time lines :\
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