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I think this will be a fun little exercise. You have been given full control of the Redskins. What would you do?
I know a lot of people will say fire this guy and fire that guy. Cut this guy and that guy. If that's where you want to go, that's fine. But remember when Snyder bought the team, that's what he did. He got rid of his GM and coaching staff within the 1st 2 years. He fired a bunch of other staff and scouts, because he knew better. So if that's where you want to go, that's fine. Just remember that's been tried once before.
As for me, I'm going to go a different directions. Most of these don't have to do with on field personnel as I think these things can be improved to help the franchise overall.
Improve the practice facilities - Make Redskins park state of the art and the best practice facility in the league. I know they've made some improvements over the years, and I doubt they are still working in the technological dark ages of the glory years. But at the same time if the facilities were mind blowing, we would all know it. This is one way I think ownership could spend money on players without violating the salary cap.
Increase the training staff and improve the training facilities - Just like above, make it state of the art. Have a training environment that lengthens players careers. This may help with the injury issue or it may help guys recover, or it may have no affect on who gets injured. But be leaders in medical training and facilities in the NFL> I think this and the previous ones are things that would entice players to play for the Redskins.
Give season ticket holders more benefits - I know Lafemina tried to improve some of that this past year. But that seems like the first time that has happened and of course now he is gone. The benefits needs increased even more and the prices for season tickets lowered. If they want to sell single game tickets like they did this past year, those can be at face value. But there should be value to purchasing season tickets. Long gone are the days where owning season tickets came with prestige. The fans aren't waiting to purchase tickets, so people are fine giving them up and getting them again if the team improves. So do something to make season tickets worth purchasing. I'd suggest a 20 or 25 percent discount for buying season tickets.
Hire a good PR Firm - PR for the Redskins sucks. It seems to get worse every year. Find a good PR firm that will get the positive messages out from the team. No matter what the news is coming from Redskins Park, it seems like the delivery of the message is awful. Even when the team does the right thing, the news is delivered in such an awful way. Hire a firm, not one person who is just a puppet, to help with these things.
Build up the scouting department - Upgrade the scouts and spend more money on scouts. All of the draft picks in the world don't help you if you are picking the wrong guys. This is another area where spending will help you become a better team on the field, without having to sign free agents.
All of these things seem to be places the Redskins are currently lacking. They are also places where Snyder seemed to have taken control of when he bought the team and they became a disaster. Of all of Snyder's mistakes, and we don't need to cover them all again, I think not spending on the peripheral things has really hurt the team a lot more than he or anyone else realized. I'm going to say that he didn't see the value in improving any of these things, because he gets nothing out of this. Hanging out with the training staff or scouts or PR guys isn't as fun as hanging out with your heroes from 10 years ago. And with tickets, there are plenty of stories out this past month where he sees the Redskins as this valuable brand from the 80s and 90s. So why lower the prices.
I knew that would be long, but didn't realize it would be this long.
What are your ideas? What would the BGO community do to improve the Redskins.
I know a lot of people will say fire this guy and fire that guy. Cut this guy and that guy. If that's where you want to go, that's fine. But remember when Snyder bought the team, that's what he did. He got rid of his GM and coaching staff within the 1st 2 years. He fired a bunch of other staff and scouts, because he knew better. So if that's where you want to go, that's fine. Just remember that's been tried once before.
As for me, I'm going to go a different directions. Most of these don't have to do with on field personnel as I think these things can be improved to help the franchise overall.
Improve the practice facilities - Make Redskins park state of the art and the best practice facility in the league. I know they've made some improvements over the years, and I doubt they are still working in the technological dark ages of the glory years. But at the same time if the facilities were mind blowing, we would all know it. This is one way I think ownership could spend money on players without violating the salary cap.
Increase the training staff and improve the training facilities - Just like above, make it state of the art. Have a training environment that lengthens players careers. This may help with the injury issue or it may help guys recover, or it may have no affect on who gets injured. But be leaders in medical training and facilities in the NFL> I think this and the previous ones are things that would entice players to play for the Redskins.
Give season ticket holders more benefits - I know Lafemina tried to improve some of that this past year. But that seems like the first time that has happened and of course now he is gone. The benefits needs increased even more and the prices for season tickets lowered. If they want to sell single game tickets like they did this past year, those can be at face value. But there should be value to purchasing season tickets. Long gone are the days where owning season tickets came with prestige. The fans aren't waiting to purchase tickets, so people are fine giving them up and getting them again if the team improves. So do something to make season tickets worth purchasing. I'd suggest a 20 or 25 percent discount for buying season tickets.
Hire a good PR Firm - PR for the Redskins sucks. It seems to get worse every year. Find a good PR firm that will get the positive messages out from the team. No matter what the news is coming from Redskins Park, it seems like the delivery of the message is awful. Even when the team does the right thing, the news is delivered in such an awful way. Hire a firm, not one person who is just a puppet, to help with these things.
Build up the scouting department - Upgrade the scouts and spend more money on scouts. All of the draft picks in the world don't help you if you are picking the wrong guys. This is another area where spending will help you become a better team on the field, without having to sign free agents.
All of these things seem to be places the Redskins are currently lacking. They are also places where Snyder seemed to have taken control of when he bought the team and they became a disaster. Of all of Snyder's mistakes, and we don't need to cover them all again, I think not spending on the peripheral things has really hurt the team a lot more than he or anyone else realized. I'm going to say that he didn't see the value in improving any of these things, because he gets nothing out of this. Hanging out with the training staff or scouts or PR guys isn't as fun as hanging out with your heroes from 10 years ago. And with tickets, there are plenty of stories out this past month where he sees the Redskins as this valuable brand from the 80s and 90s. So why lower the prices.
I knew that would be long, but didn't realize it would be this long.
What are your ideas? What would the BGO community do to improve the Redskins.