A.J. Smith to be Redskins GM?

FA agency begins sometime in mid March.

Are we under any pressure to get our FO in order asap bc of any event or activity before then? college workouts, etc?

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the three of them together could be something interesting. Allen as President, AJ as senior executive, McC taking over for Scott C. The question is who stops Dan from chasing shinny Free agents and busts players her get obsessed with?

Yeah it's certainly much more a long shot than Smith. And I do have concerns about McC. I didn't realize that the Redskins had been using him as a consultant of sorts during the season.

Scot does have ties to Allen though, through his father/brother

Uh oh, good ol boy network

the three of them together could be something interesting. Allen as President, AJ as senior executive, McC taking over for Scott C. The question is who stops Dan from chasing shinny Free agents and busts players her get obsessed with?

This would be ideal IMO. I think McC, while a great talent at choosing talent, still has to prove he can handle himself accordingly. These incidents were rather recent and I would like AJ and bruce over him. That's the last thing this organization needs right now is a high level executive effing up. The league's not in the mood of tolerating major eff ups right now.

Uh oh, good ol boy network

I was sitting here wondering who in the NFL ISN'T connected to someone already in the Redskins organization in some way or another? Especially if people are going to do with connections like "he worked with [insert name here]'s father/brother/mom/hair dresser".

I was sitting here wondering who in the NFL ISN'T connected to someone already in the Redskins organization in some way or another? Especially if people are going to do with connections like "he worked with [insert name here]'s father/brother/mom/hair dresser".

Yeah it's silly.

It's a small world in the NFL. Chances are someone knows someone.

FA agency begins sometime in mid March.

Are we under any pressure to get our FO in order asap bc of any event or activity before then? college workouts, etc?

(i see you lurking sandtrapp - congrats on the win)

Sooner the better I'd imagine to start putting together a plan. Senior Bowl is the first offseason event I think.

Networking is a normal part of many businesses, including the NFL and my own industry. Personally my point about networking was not about the act of networking, but who is doing it.

Bruce Allen's "networking" results in a last place finish for us every year. So we should either:

1) make searches open and competitive rather than networked
or
2) use the networking contacts of someone other than Bruce Allen and his cronies like AJ Smith

Since option #2 is impossible until we fire Bruce, I would vote for option 1, if my voice mattered.

Networking is a normal part of many businesses, including the NFL and my own industry. Personally my point about networking was not about the act of networking, but who is doing it.

Bruce Allen's "networking" results in a last place finish for us every year. So we should either:

1) make searches open and competitive rather than networked
or
2) use the networking contacts of someone other than Bruce Allen and his cronies like AJ Smith

Since option #2 is impossible until we fire Bruce, I would vote for option 1, if my voice mattered.

So what's your opinion on McCloughan?

Pretty hard to take networking completely out of the equation no matter which direction you go.

It's not like we were some fine and dandy franchise before Allen came along.

So what's your opinion on McCloughan?

Pretty hard to take networking completely out of the equation no matter which direction you go.

It's not like we were some fine and dandy franchise before Allen came along.

Well, that's true. But replacing Vinnie with Bruce is like replacing herpes with chlamydia.

If Bill Belichick wants to network someone for us, I'm all for it, including McCloughan.

But if Bruce Allen networks, I'm concerned, 28-52 concerned.