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Peaceful, Easy Feeling: Dan Snyder Displays Different Attitude Than In Years Past

Redskins Owner Daniel Snyder has "grown from years of gridiron disappointment" and this season "felt at ease, perhaps more than ever before, with the management team he assembled," according to sources cited in a front-page piece by Adam Kilgore of the WASHINGTON POST. Snyder, with urging from team President Bruce Allen, hired GM Scot McCloughan a year ago to "assemble his roster." He also empowered McCloughan and coach Jay Gruden to "run the team with his support but without his interference." Former NFLer Clinton Portis, who played seven seasons with the Redskins, said of Snyder, "You can see his growth. He’s allowing the coaches to coach, the players to play and the front office to run the team." Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, a guest in Snyder's box for 10 years, said, "There’s definitely been a different vibe in the owner’s box during games this year. There’s just a quiet confidence, almost a serenity about it, which is a little surprising to say when you’re talking about Dan Snyder. There’s been a sense the football people are in charge, there’s a plan, and Dan likes the plan" (WASHINGTON POST, 1/15).

GREAT SCOT: In DC, Mike Jones noted McCloughan this season has shown what he is "capable of and how he goes about accomplishing it." Despite winning the NFC East, the Redskins are "far from a finished product" and have a "way to go before" the team joins the ranks of perennial contenders. But the first year of the McCloughan era "brought change that has strengthened the organization at its core while also brightening the prospects for future success." Time will tell whether McCloughan "has indeed saved the Redskins for the long term," though signs at least "point to sustainability following this late-season surge" (WASHINGTON POST, 1/13).

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