The Washington Redskins haven’t had a good 2019 season, but the team’s recent 3-9 slate is only a footnote in what’s been a historic two-decade stretch of dysfunction and unrealized promise under owner Dan Snyder.
For a long time, that dysfunction has gone unaccounted for; Snyder has maintained a distance when he needs to intervene, and a callous tendency to intercede when distance is needed. And his team president Bruce Allen has overseen football operations with almost no positive long-term results.
The team’s long-standing tradition of failure has caused many to deem them too far gone.