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Redskins: Five reasons for fans to hold out hope for the future

By Ian Cummings

BALTIMORE, MD - OCTOBER 9: A Washington Redskins helmet sits on the field prior to the game against the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium on October 9, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Todd Olszewski/Getty Images)
BALTIMORE, MD - OCTOBER 9: A Washington Redskins helmet sits on the field prior to the game against the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium on October 9, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Todd Olszewski/Getty Images) /
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ASHBURN, VA – JANUARY 8: Owner of the Washington Redskins, Daniel Snyder, leaves the stage after introducing Joe Gibbs as the new head coach of the Washington Redskins at a media conference on January 8, 2004 at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Virginia. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
ASHBURN, VA – JANUARY 8: Owner of the Washington Redskins, Daniel Snyder, leaves the stage after introducing Joe Gibbs as the new head coach of the Washington Redskins at a media conference on January 8, 2004 at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Virginia. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images) /

No. 1 – Dan Snyder’s fan-driven machine is losing its wheels

You could say that the last four slides are moot, as long as Dan Snyder owns the team. And you wouldn’t be wrong.

Snyder, with Bruce Allen as his reckless, loyal henchman, has all-too-often gotten in his own way, when dealing with the Redskins. To put it simply, he thinks he’s smarter than he is, and he doesn’t accept the truth: That years of failure have slowly turned his fan base against him, and that he is directing a dying franchise into darkened waters.

Perhaps there’s a silver lining in Snyder’s incompetence: It is not sustainable. Every organization in the NFL is driven monetarily by its fans. By its customers. And with every accumulated public relations disaster, and every collapse predicated on Snyder’s inflated ego, the fans will only recede in greater numbers.

This season, we saw the damages. Home games were almost away games. This past week, we saw the anger. #FireBruceAllen was trending on Twitter for two days after Brian Lafemina’s firing. People are upset. Fans are tired. And soon, they simply won’t take any more. And they won’t fall for the false glimpses of hope.

Snyder has refused to properly take care of his fan-driven machine, and now, the wheels could be set to fall off. His demise could come, in the form of empty pocketbooks. He will try to make himself the hero again. And he will fail, again and again.

In this theoretical, but possible scenario, could be forced to sell the team, after seeing his profits dry up. Any ending that involves Snyder selling the team is a positive one, even if it involves a short spell of incompetence on the field. Because, for the first time in a long time, there will be no one to obstruct true growth.

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It might seem like a fantasy. But Snyder himself could make it real.

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