It seems to me that perhaps Blache has a point: People do not know Snyder well, but it is partly his own fault. He often is cold with certain media member, doesn't do many interviews and has rubbed fans the wrong way with some of the ways he has run his team. There have been vast claims of a cold working environment at Redskins Park, including needless firings and strained relationships.

Snyder could do himself a lot of good by opening up more, like he did following the death of Sean Taylor and after Joe Gibbs' departure. We saw a man more human than we ever did before. He clearly was affected deeply by both events, right up there with the death of his own father in 2003. Ironic, too, that his dad was a writer and member of the media because just a little more opening up (more than the three minutes he felt obligated to give the media the other day amid all this turmoil) might do wonders for him.