The Owner Apologizes: The (Lower-Quality) Video [UPDATED]
Here's the shaky Flip video I was able to get of the truncated media session Redskins owner Daniel M. Snyder conducted today at Surrattsville High School in Clinton, Md. As I noted in the previous post, the session was cut short after just a few questions by the Surrattsville Hornets marching band -- it's homecoming week, after all! -- and the Flip camera audio is just abused by the wind.
UPDATE: I'm leaving this post up because I don't want to delete people's comments, but there is now a higher-quality video (courtesy of the Redskins Broadcast Network) with the transcript here.
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11-03-2009 @ 4:38PM
roburke15 said...
I call bs on this interview. Having these planned questions doesn't mean jack. The whole thing seems way too fake, why can't he do a real interview with real non-redskin payroll reporters?
Dan's just trying to play the media and the fans so people wont hate him and will come to the games again.
Sorry matt, you guys (redskins publicity team) are not fooling anyone...yet.
A real apology from snyder woud be REAL CHANGES.
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11-03-2009 @ 5:30PM
ryanpcooney said...
SNYDER SUCKS. period.
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11-03-2009 @ 6:58PM
LIFTEDEXX said...
I think that Snyder does feel bad. He has been a Redskins fan his whole life and wants to win more than anything. You can see that by how much money he is willing to spend.
That being said, the only way he can make this right is to fire Cerrato and then hire a strong GM and a strong head coach that are football smart people and let them run the team. Hopefully Snyder doesn't try to be as involved in personel decisions as people think he is so that if he hires the right people and empowers them he can just sit back and watch his team win games.
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11-03-2009 @ 8:52PM
MrNonCents said...
Dan is simply a disgrace. A disgrace as an owner (78-88 during his regime and falling), a disgrace as a human being (suing unemployed folks and old ladies), a public relations disgrace (banning signs from FedEx hahahahahahaha), a disgrace as a leader (no interviews during the season...especially now when his leadership is needed most). Wait! It seems that Dan has finally taken some sound advice and actually made a positive move on the last item. While I agree that he still has a very long way to go, this is a start and he should be commended. Now let's see if he can continue to lead and fulfill his role as the leader of this organization. I, for one, think he can't but I hope he proves me wrong.
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11-04-2009 @ 8:36AM
adam.welch2 said...
Matt,
I got an email from the NFL/Redskins giving me a link to take a survey. Can you have that reforwarded, and make sure that the link works? I would hate for Mr. Goodell to miss any of my good ideas about how Mr. Snyder should be running this team and his treatment for the fans.
Oh by the way, how is it a press confrence if Jason Reid isn't there? No taxation without representation?
And Matt, please don't forget, I don't want to get censored in this survey the way that everyone gets censored at FEDEX.
Thanks buddy,
Adam
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11-04-2009 @ 8:43AM
Matt Terl said...
I'm pretty sure that the survey you're talking about -- likely the one Steinberg writes about at http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2009/11/skins_open_themselves_up_for_f.html -- is the annual customer satisfaction survey that the league does in conjunction with the various teams.
The survey is given to some subset of the team's fan's each year, and I have no way to have the link reforwarded. Your responses go to the league and to the team, and they're not going to be censored; that would defeat the point of a customer satisfaction survey.
And it wasn't a press conference. It was an unscheduled Q&A with the reporters who showed up to cover the charity event.
11-04-2009 @ 7:32AM
dkan17 said...
If Mr. Snyder were sincere in his apology to the Redskins' fan base, then he should immediately announce an across-the-board decrease in ticket prices for next year, a true admission of his failure to produce a winning product on the field and a signal to the fans that he wants "to make it right by them".
Any words can be said but do you really believe those words until some substantial action takes place. In addition to the reduction in prices, an admission that his dependance on Vinnie Cerrato has failed over the past 10 years would go a long way in restoring the faith and loyalty of the Redskin fan.
Mr. Snyder, do what is right with actions, not just words.
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11-04-2009 @ 7:39AM
rab9 said...
The Skins under Snyder will never win until he realizes he is not a football genius and hires someone that knows football and lets them hire coaches and Snyder gets out of the way. Ted Turner did the same thing in Atlanta. When they got to Atl they were worst in the league because Turner tried to run the operation and he didn't know anything about baseball. He even tried to manage the team for a few weeks. He was as big a clown as Snyder is now. When Turner hired knowledgeable baseball people and left town for his ranch, the Braves won 14 divisions titles.
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11-04-2009 @ 8:15AM
jmy said...
I am disappointed and embarassed that the redskins have absolutely the biggest egomaniac in the league as an owner. Who gives a bleep what this guy has to say. He never tells the truth and always has a hidden agenda.
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11-04-2009 @ 9:04AM
punchdaclock said...
I'm sure Dan Snyder is disappointed that the team is not winning, but he is probably more disappointed in the fans. I remember that the Redskins fans were considered the best fans in the league. Now no one would argue that....... would they? I thought that the fans were suppose to be behind the team win or lose.
Its okay to question things, but most of what you hear from "fans" is how they are not going to be fans of the team anymore or how they want everybody to fired or sell the team. To me that is not what the best fans in the league do for "their" team when they are down. No report even mentioned why Snyder was there yesterday. Nice reporting.
Later
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11-04-2009 @ 12:23PM
rizzle829 said...
Its the fans fault that Vinny and Dan don't have a clue how to produce a winner. So like the best fans in the league we should not bring signs to games which criticize management, nor talk bad about the supreme leader and his president. We should just lend our blind support and follow our leaders into battle, never questioning their true motives or decisions. I mean come on guys Dan and Vinny have only had a single decade to build a team. They need our support forever, we should never question their decisions. You should just know in your heart they are right and its your fault the redskins suck.
Punchdaclock is a tool of the regime. We "were" considered the greatest fans because we "were" supportive through years of mediocrity never turning on franchise. Game OVER.
I for one have followed blindly for too long only to be let down year after year. It is obvious that Vin and Dan don't have a clue about building a winner. I will always be a fan but will no longer give Dan my money to be consistently hopeless. . It is time to hire a real GM that knows football. FIRE VINNY NOW! or watch the fans abandon you. It's up to you Dan.
11-04-2009 @ 10:24AM
karkus315 said...
Vinny must go!!! 10 years of futility and Dan still doesn't get it. We are not a couple of players away, we are an entire offensive team away. Build the O-line then go get young skill players with something to prove. Once they prove their ability, then pay them.
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11-04-2009 @ 10:23AM
jmy said...
Vinny I mean punchdaclock,
You cannot be serious!
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11-04-2009 @ 10:59AM
BTD5504 said...
punchdaclock should be punchedindaface if he really believes what he just typed.
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11-04-2009 @ 11:01AM
kiss18 said...
the front office is not on the field , like ive said all along 4 2 yrs this would not b an issue if we had a qb . we would b winning these close games and none of this would b an issue , and believe me we have had plenty of chances to get a good qb cambell has sucked since day one , until u people realize that there is nothin to talk about , doesnt matter who runs the team without qb we will suck bottom line.
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11-04-2009 @ 12:14PM
dutchnblue said...
Has Campbell really sucked since day one though? I mean it seems like since Zorn the "QB" coach has been here he's gotten worse. I was a huge campbell fan but now it seems like time for a change.
HTTR from MI
11-04-2009 @ 1:37PM
Paul said...
Ive been telling you guys for weeks that Punchdadonkey is really Mrs. Synder. You'll always get the company line towed by this lady
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11-04-2009 @ 4:35PM
punchdaclock said...
You can call me Steve or you can call me Joe or you can call me Howard, but it doesn't change the fact that you are an idiot posting on a website of a team you do not like.....
There is no regime or conspiracy theory that I'm apart of. All that crap is BS and you know it.
As I have said a before, I am a fan of the Redskins. Win or Lose!!!! I look at football as an escape from the regular grind of living. I don't want to be caught up in crying and moaning about something that is suppose to be fun.
If this is not fun to you anymore, then maybe you should try the Wizards or Soccer....... You know who I'm talking to..........
Later
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11-04-2009 @ 5:55PM
kiss18 said...
dutchnblue my fellow skin i have watched every snap since 1977 i was only 7yrs old it is a family tradition, and i promise u i have never seen a qb as bad as cambell , and i am 39yrs old, if there is a bad qb out there the skins will find him dont ask me y , joe t was our hope & it was cut short doug & mark was not good ,just had great team.
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11-04-2009 @ 6:02PM
steven said...
This is what a redskins game looks like LMFAO
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhhrifSfT3imZ22X43
Players running in to each other and tackling each other lol.
Punchdaclock is an idiot, you see how the browns owner is FORCED to make a change now since the browns fans have revolted???? we want vinny OUT OF HERE we want a GM like parcells or marty schotenhiemer and we want money put back in to the scouting department! This is OUR team not some rich spoiled brat who claims to love the redskins and football but has NEVER EVER played football in his LIFE!!!!
When snyder gets vinny out of here hires a GM who then hires a coach and puts the millions he took out of the scouting department back in to the scouting department THEN WE WILL take down our signs and our bash snyder t shirts!
Until then snyder can Kiss my expletive deleted!!!!
Kiss18 it has NOTHING to do with campbell! Yes campbell is average and will NEVER be a elite QB but you put Peyton manning on this team with that line we have and we STILL would suck! we run a westcoast offense but not ONE of the offensive players we have fit a westcoast offensive scheme. You seem to forget clinton portis cant even run with this line that we have and hes a HECKKKKKKKKK of a back and im telling you he still has 4 good years left in him! We have drafted a lineman only 3 times in 10 years hahahahaha how do we expect to win when vinny only drafts 3 lineman every 10 years????
But yea Kiss18 Im with you campbell is not elite and will NEVER BE hes an average QB who would THRIVE in carolina or tenessee because there running teams who only need a QB who can limit his turnovers and throw the pigskin every ONCE in a while to keep the opposing defense honest!
We just have a QB that does not fit our style he fits joe gibbs style of offense but vinny is so dumb he diddnt even help joe gibbs offense he diddnt draft any run blocking lineman he diddnt find a complementary change of pace back for clinton portis instead he signed past prime new york jet offensive lineman to HUGE contracts and drafted ladell soft pitter patter betts LOL this teams pathetic!
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