November 30, 2004
Snyder Agonistes
Jim Henley, guestblogging over at The Agitator, engages in some speculation around the future of Redskins head coach Joe Gibbs and what was really behind reports that Gibbs plans to step down in favor of defensive coordinator Greg Williams at the end of the season:
The key question here is, assuming Gibbs is sincere, where did Mortensen, who doesn't make stuff up, get the story? Jim's hypothesis: Redskins owner Daniel Snyder's people. This is the opening shot in a whispering campaign aiming to move Gibb upstairs. . .
And there's an oedipal logic to it. Snyder idolized Gibbs, so Snyder must kill Gibbs. In a weird way, by visibly destroying the Gibbs legadcy - bring the Old Man back, watch him fail and shunt him off to the front office - Snyder makes the team his in a way it hasn't been, 800 million dollar investment or no. It doesn't work if the fans want Gibbs to stay (which most of us do, I think), but if he can get the "bad health" meme to take hold, and get Gibbs to retire after losing, then Snyder has smashed the Father-Idol.
Uncanny theorizing or paranoid psychobabble? Well, since we are talking about Snyder, something tells me this analysis may just be dead on.
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Is there an "uncanny psychobabble" category?
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at December 2, 2004 07:25 AM
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