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SI.com: S.L. Price: Despite spending millions, Snyder running Redskins into ground

It's all about him now. Whether Dan Snyder secretly wanted this when he bought the Washington Redskins a decade ago is less intriguing a question than why it took so long to become clear, but then, there were so many distractions along the way. There was so much free-agent cash thrown about, year after year, and the rise and fall of Steve Spurrier, and the return of Joe Gibbs, and the slew of forgettable quarterbacks, and the strange hiring of Jim Zorn -- so many high-drama ideas gone wrong -- that it was hard to cut through and see that maybe this was the real plan all along.

SI.com: Peter King: Schedules tell different stories for Ravens, Saints

Three things on my mind entering the line-of-demarcation week of the 2009 NFL season:

SI.com: Don Banks: NFL nears deal with video company

The NFL is cautiously optimistic a deal is within reach in the coming days between it and the eight major college football conferences that have so far refused to release digitized versions of their 2009 game tapes for scouting and evaluation purposes, league sources told SI.com Friday.

SI.com: Ross Tucker: Week 9 Viewer's Guide; mailbag

My weekly look at key matchups and storylines to watch in one game at each time slot. (All times Eastern).

SI.com: Adam Duerson: Game of the Week: Cowboys-Eagles

Breaking down Sunday's Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles game (8:20 p.m., NBC)...

SI.com: Peter King: Lerner denies firing Kokinis, seeks general to lead Browns

Cleveland Browns owner Randy Lerner, under fire after parting ways with general manager George Kokinis midway through his first season as GM, denied today that Kokinis had been fired and said he hoped to find a veteran NFL general manager-type like Ernie Accorsi or Mike Holmgren to help shape the organization and help embattled coach Eric Mangini.

SI.com: Don Banks: Kokinis lost power struggle with Mangini

By now, I imagine your typical Cleveland Browns fan has started to look back on 1996-98, the three seasons they had no NFL team to follow, with a mixture of nostalgia and fondness. Given the almost constant state of despair Browns fans have resided in since the franchise was re-born as an expansion entry in 1999, who could blame them for remembering those days as relatively pain-free compared to the misery to come?

SI.com: Kerry J. Byrne: The decline of sacks in the NFL

If you watched the Vikings' two wins over the Packers this season, specifically Minnesota defensive end Jared Allen introducing himself to Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers 7.5 times, you might think the sack is alive and well in the NFL.

SI.com: Steelers' Ward is NFL's dirtiest player, peers say

Hines Ward is the dirtiest player in the NFL, according to a Sports Illustrated poll of 296 players released this week.

SI.com: Ross Tucker: Poor coaching to blame for Packers' loss

Lost amid the drama of Brett Favre's return to Lambeau Field on Sunday was that a very important game in the NFC North was lost almost exclusively because of poor coaching and game-planning by the Packers. The failure to have a better plan in place to help out young offensive tackles was inexcusable. Perhaps worse was the decision to continue kicking deep to Vikings return man Percy Harvin.

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