Snyder has been described as being very active in recent business deliberationsgetty images
Redskins Owner Dan Snyder "faces the greatest crisis of his 21-year ownership" as the team looks to change its name, and he "will contemplate the move with a small, insular circle of advisers, the top two of whom are not even team employees," according to Carpenter & Clarke of the WASHINGTON POST. Snyder's circle is "now dominated" by Snyder Enterprises CFO Karl Schreiber, who is "not a Redskins employee." Sources said that Snyder recently has "sought and received counsel on the name issue" from DC-based marketing firm Stagwell Group Partner Jay Leveton. Sources also said that "all of the key business decisions for the organization" are made by a "handful of vice presidents or outside consultants who take charge only when the issue relates to their expertise." Sources said that the Redskins' business operations have been "chaotic in recent months" after longtime President Bruce Allen was not replaced. Redskins coach Ron Rivera has been "widely praised inside the team for the way he has rebuilt its football operations." But sources said that the rest of the organization "at times has been paralyzed by the lack of a single decision-maker." Carpenter & Clarke wrote compounding this "indecision is the fact that Snyder has been out of the country for most of the past three months." However, Snyder has been "described as very active in business deliberations." Some Redskins officials said that he has "become the franchise’s primary decision-maker in Allen’s absence" (WASHINGTON POST, 7/5).
