Been paying attention much? 
It has to do with his hatred for Shanny and Rexy. Irrational? yes!
I see Spidey. If it was just an illusion though, why did high price FAs keep signing here?
They kept signing here because the salary cap enabled them to get the guaranteed money of signing bonuses up front that they desperately want. Haynesworth only got about 1/3 of the money of the contract (too much IMO) but all you heard was that he was a $100+ million bust. Haynesworth didn't get anywhere near the money that he was said to have gotten. The same can be said of other players that signed here. Oftentimes some of the backloaded money would be converted into another signing bonus in a restructured deal so that (hypothetically) you would hear of a player signing 2 separate deals of $75 and $65 million (that sounds like $140 million) but the player would only get about $80 of that during his stay in Washington.
I guess what I was getting at was that if you are Shanny and you tell Dan Snyder you want player X, more than likely you're going to get player X. There's something to be said for that.
You'll get no argument from me on that. We're equally on board that it's beneficial to the team to have an owner willing to pay players as long as he's not the one deciding which players to bring on board.
