Redskins big picture Ingredients for Improvement after 0-3 start

No. 1 – Introspect, and adjust accordingly

All this improvement is for naught, if the Redskins front office can’t fulfill the final requirement of the list.

Dan Snyder’s inability to see the bigger picture, or at least acknowledge it, has seemed almost deliberate at times, over the course of his tenure as owner. Former football executive Michael Lombardi said as much on 106.7 The Fan earlier this year, proclaiming that Snyder’s problem is quite simple: He doesn’t know how to build a winning football culture, and by extension, a winning football team.

Twenty years into the game, that’s just embarrassing. It would be too embarrassing for a prideful person to admit defeat, fire Bruce Allen, and start over. And that’s why it’s not going to happen. But Snyder and Allen, as human beings, can learn from their perpetual failure. With open minds, they could, in theory, look back and analyze how, at each step of the way, they impeded uniform progress and growth, and how their failure to construct a unified vision for their franchise cost them time, effort, and talent.

Snyder wants to be the hero. He wants to institute the move that saves the franchise he fawned over as a child. The move that saves the franchise he’s ultimately doomed. But like a casual fan, he doesn’t comprehend the gravity of his role, in its entirety. Or he’s at least blind to it. He doesn’t understand that turning around a football franchise takes more effort. It takes more patience. It takes more self-reflection. And it takes more structure. It takes a plan, which is more than what Snyder can offer.

But perhaps the weight of an entire generation of sorrow takes a toll on the Redskins much-maligned owner. Maybe he does use the tail end of 2019 to soul search, and self-evaluate. Maybe he starts to understand how his actions, and the actions of Bruce Allen, have stunted the team’s development and lowered their ceiling. And perhaps, with this new knowledge, he makes the requisite changes, scaling back Bruce Allen’s role as president, while taking on a more open-minded approach as the owner, and implementing a structured plan for the future.

It’s time that Snyder learns that the problem isn’t the coaching carousel. It isn’t the heavy turnover of talent each year. And it isn’t the injuries. The problem is the one thing that’s stayed the same. The problem is Dan Snyder, and if the Redskins want to improve, Dan Snyder needs to be introspective, realize that, and adapt.

Is it realistic? No. But these are the Ingredients for Improvement for the Washington Redskins. One should not stray too far from the recipe.