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Seahawks Insider
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Posted by Frank Hughes @ 11:25:59 am

Washington Times NFL writer Dave Elfin did a lengthy Q&A with Redskins owner Dan Snyder during the owners meetings this week. It was a very interesting read. At the end, Snyder lamented losing the game. Here was the question Elfin asked and Snyder's interesting answer:

Q: The NFC East has been a great division for years. Does the Giants
winning the Super Bowl give you inspiration?

A: "It's the best division. We think we should've been that team. Joe
(Gibbs) and I thought if we get through Seattle, we were very much looking forward to going to Dallas and then we were looking forward to the rematch in Green Bay. We owed them something. We were very, very comfortable with where we were. We just couldn't get our of Seattle. If that recovery by Anthony Mix had been a touchdown with the rule the way we'd like it to be, that game's probably over. I haven't brought it up this week because it looks like I'm a sore loser."

Categories: NFL Meetings, Quotes 29 comments

COMMENTS:

luckman15 @ 11:32 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
Dan Snyder is a tool. He just brought it up and he looks like a sore loser. What an idiot, talking about going all the way and counting victories before one even happens.
DSAhawker @ 11:50 - Friday, April 4th, 2008
http://www.freewebs.com/dsahawker
oh boo hoo...


Our first 2 possesions in the 4th quarter we were intercepted. He didn't loose from some bad call...he lost because they couldn't take advantage of our turnovers late in the game.


rorygee @ 11:50 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
"IF we were allowed to play with hockey pucks (like we would like) we probably would have won...."
"IF the Seahawks had gone to the wrong field, like we thought they would, we would have won"

Nice to make your rules up.

What colour is his sky?
SnakeDoctor @ 12:01 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
Home field baby! It will get us to the promised land!

SnakeDoctor @ 12:02 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
That and winning on the ROAD!
VaHawk @ 12:07 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
I live both in Kirkland and Tysons COrner VA! and us seattle fans are always so happy with our front office while all of my friends back east are always dissapointed in theres. Its nice having patient and hardworking people. Ive been bac and forth for around ten years now and ive seen snyder go from GOOD coach to GOOD coach while us hawks have HOLGREM year after year! I lovet he hawks and the organization we only good personalities on this team and im excited for next season!!!
footballscaa @ 12:26 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
IF is the middle word of LIFE. And yes he does sound like a sore loser.
jerrycurl @ 12:34 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
"It's the best division."

I always laugh when I hear this, and living in New Jersey I hear it all the time. If the NFC East is the best division then why have we beaten them 8 that's EIGHT straight times now! I don't care about circumstances the bottom line is they just aren't as good as they think. This league is setup so that the difference between 5-11 and 11-5 is generally based on injures.
webdome @ 12:42 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
Hey Dan, how about looking inward...Like all the HORRIFIC moves you've made over the last 5 years...The traded traffic picks, the awful signings, the bad head coaching choices. None of those things were a factor, eh Danny-boy?

The reality is, your Redskins get hot at the end of the season. After a few wins, the east coast hype machine got rolling, and all of a sudden, the 'skins were a Super Bowl favorite. In the end, you were just another ridiculously overrated team that got pub you're on the east coast.

Enjoy losing, Danny-boy, because as long as you're calling the shots, you're never going to win a playoff game. And when you guys suck the next two years because of YOU, you'll blame Jim Zorn and he'll come back to Seattle where he belongs.
Shattah206 @ 13:02 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
from your mouth to God's ears, webdome
TXHawk @ 13:25 - Friday, April 4th, 2008
jerrycurl,

NFC East - 5 of last 7 seasons, an East team has been in Conference Championship game, 1 SB win, and 2 other SB appearances

NFC West - 2 appearances in the SB, no wins, 2 appearances in Conference championship game.

Last 6 seasons, # of wins in conference:

East - 29, 25, 28, 27, 26, 26

West - 20, 23, 20, 22, 25, 23

So while the Hawks may have done well, top to bottom, the east is a h*;; of a lot better.
madpunter88 @ 13:54 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
I live in the DC area and have heard this claim that Gibbs and Snyder thought they had a Super Bowl team last year a couple of times since the postseason. It is beyond me why they think that other than the belief that every team in the playoffs thinks they can win it all (with a few breaks). The local media was, by no means, suffering under this same delusion knowing full well that the Redskins had backed into the playoffs on emotion and the sudden collapse of the Cowboys at the end of the season. And if Gibbs was so confident in the strength of his team at the end -- believing as Snyder says that they were one rule change away from beating the Seahawks -- why did he slink out of town with a year left on his contract with the same team coming back next year?

What does it say about the state of your coaching, your scouting, and your management when you bring a 38-year-old journeyman quarterback late in the season and suddenly believe that makes you a contender? If they were a Super Bowl team with Todd Collins behind center why wasn't he playing all season?

The Redskins are a sad franchise because their deep and proud fan base has been forced to suffer through inept management and poor coaching the last decade and a half.
antediluvian @ 14:02 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
Wow....the Redskins owner is a homer. Who'd have guessed.
jibo1 @ 14:28 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
The only reason the NFC E. so they say the best.Is because it's on the east coast.Or what I like to call The Harlem area,The Harlem area is from Greenland to the Flordia keys.
STTBM @ 16:24 - Friday, April 4th, 2008
Just ONCE i would like to hear and East Coast team admit that they just plain flat out got beat by Seattle. Twice in a row, in fact.
pabuwal @ 16:33 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
Anyone notice that Dan Snyder has been so mentally damaged by having his and the "great" Joe Gibbs' season ended in Seattle 2 of the last 3 seasons he is trying to create Seattle East out in Washington?
curran1979 @ 16:47 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
Uh...how about if the refs didn't call an incomplete pass on the fumble that was caused by Kerney in the first quarter?? You can go on all day about certain plays. There were plenty of plays to be had on both sides. We were just better that day.
subtlesquire @ 17:44 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
Hey Snyder,
There are some things money just can't buy. Class is one of them, just ask Howard Schultz.
hellamagical @ 18:52 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
Dan Snyder is nobody's friend and he is a sore loser, but that same thing could have been said about us after XL, I hate to say it, but let him vent. It's not going to change anything, just like we can't take those rings away from pittsburg.
BobbyK @ 19:33 - Friday, April 4th, 2008 Email
Snyder is right about that stupid rule, the 'skins should have scored and put us away.

However, as curran1979 pointed out... the Kerney fumble was BS... which meant we had another turnover early in the game and we end up going into the half with a big lead... so that stupid kick never would have mattered, nor would anyone have cared about it...

Speaking of BS calls, this is just stupid. Would the Redskins have really beaten the Patriots in the Super Bowl? After getting beat by 1,000 points by them in the regular season? Of course not.

The Stealers got a "call" against them this week. If they would have beaten the Jags, does anyone with a brain really think they could have gone into NE and beat the Pats? I'm sure one of their S would have "guaranteed" it just like the time before.

Back to us, we got F-ed in the SUPER BOWL. That's more than any loser regular season or playoff game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those loser teams would have had to win other games they could have easily lost.

We were done... win that game and we win the Super Bowl!!!

F-the NFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
luckman15 @ 01:08 - Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Email
Hey now hellamagical...

I will go to my deathbed saying the Hawks were f'ed in Super Bowl XL. You can call me a sore loser all day forever and nothing will change that opinion. That's why I applaud that kid who spit in the Steeler fan's burger. He did something although it was wrong. That's just not a great analogy to draw to Snyder. The NFL/media did a massive cover-up after that game and no one has the balls to do some investigating a la Woodward and Bernstein. If you don't believe there could be conspiracy and corruption at a high level you must've missed the past few years of sports and also Bush v. Gore. You're either out of your mind or in denial. Think for yourself rather than having the media pump thoughts into your head!
SnakeDoctor @ 07:34 - Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Email
Now this is the real Dan Snyder....Per PFT...

REDSKINS GO TURD COLLECTING
Posted by Mike Florio on April 4, 2008, 9:58 p.m.
The Washington Redskins signed their first free agent who didn’t play in 2007 with the Washington Redskins.

The new player is receiver Jerome Mathis, a three-year member of the Houston Texans who didn’t receive a restricted free agent tender after being arrested for assaulting his pregnant girlfriend in February. (Charges have since been dropped, primarily because the alleged victim moved out of state and asked for the charges to be dropped.)

Hey, Redskins — why didn’t you just make a waiver claim for Chris Henry?

The Washington Times points out that the team waited until 7:00 p.m. on Friday to send out a release announcing the move, which apparently was aimed at avoiding unnecessary scrutiny of the decision.

As one media source told us, “No way they bring this guy on when [Joe] Gibbs was in charge.”
tribfan1 @ 14:10 - Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Email
Hey,

The Seahawk fans thought they were a Super Bowl team last year too and they were actually further away from it than the year before.
hawks4372 @ 19:20 - Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Email
I love how you people are quick to strike down Snyder for making a relatively benign comment about who should have won the game, yet you're the first in line to cry about the officials in Super Bowl XL. You guys are the some of the worst football fans alive. You make Browns fans seem reasonable.
csungrad @ 22:50 - Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Email
"I haven't brought it up this week because it looks like I'm a sore loser."
-Dan Snyder, NFL owner and sore loser.
the_shocker @ 18:31 - Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Email
I think I have a 12th man towel that I could send to Snyder so he has something to wipe his tears with.
piperfeltcher @ 08:42 - Monday, April 7th, 2008 Email
I have to agree with Snyder that rule should be changed.
Ydef @ 11:11 - Monday, April 7th, 2008 Email
hawks4372,

You obviously have no capability to think for yourself trying to compare grapes to broccoli. The XL calls by the refs were so insipidly egregious (and there was more than just one) that any objective observer would have recognized that they determined the outcome of the game.

There was no such controversy in the Redskins game outside of maybe some Redskins fans and Snyder's deluded view of reality.

For you to try to compare the two reveals the makings of a very simple mind.

Mahk77 @ 21:33 - Friday, April 11th, 2008
"Well I didn't want to bring it up this week because I"d look like a sore loser"

Can't have it both ways, you tool. YOu did bring it up and you do look like a loser...er sore loser.

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