NFL offseason 1.0 thread

Bruce needs to chill the eff out...McCloughan is our greatest asset.

We agree on this. I would dump Allen 11 times out of 10 before I even thought about getting rid of Scot.

NFL dates and answers to all the "when does this start?" questions -

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Report: Bruce Allen won’t let Scot McCloughan talk to media | ProFootballTalk (http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/02/09/report-bruce-allen-wont-let-scot-mccloughan-talk-to-media/)

yeah ok.....

This just sounds like Mike Florio contrived stuff. Maybe it's not, but Florio loves to post agitation articles about the Skins. He does it every off-season, and the fact that the Skins have been drama free for the past year is probably driving him insane. I know the initial article comes from Mike Jones (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/football-insider/wp/2017/02/09/for-the-sake-of-all-parties-involved-the-redskins-need-a-home-run-offseason/?utm_term=.d89f19f31ed6) at the WP but he isn't much better than Florio, and his whole article is just looking at the off-season so far through glass half empty eyes.

So far, the coaching moves have been fairly average, I won't go all in on the DC, but the position coaches all get strong marks. So basically it's still a wait and see approach, but if BA is giving SM more time to study film and look at players, that's a good thing and maybe something they both agreed on (after all who really wants to talk to the media!!!)

Here's hoping Tandler is on target with all 5 of these predictions (well maybe not the 1st round draft pick)

Need to Know: Five Redskins offseason predictions | CSN Mid-Atlantic (http://www.csnmidatlantic.com/washington-redskins/need-know-five-redskins-offseason-predictions?p=ya5nbcs&ocid=yahoo&yptr=yahoo)

This just sounds like Mike Florio contrived stuff. Maybe it's not, but Florio loves to post agitation articles about the Skins. He does it every off-season, and the fact that the Skins have been drama free for the past year is probably driving him insane. I know the initial article comes from Mike Jones (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/football-insider/wp/2017/02/09/for-the-sake-of-all-parties-involved-the-redskins-need-a-home-run-offseason/?utm_term=.d89f19f31ed6) at the WP but he isn't much better than Florio, and his whole article is just looking at the off-season so far through glass half empty eyes.



So far, the coaching moves have been fairly average, I won't go all in on the DC, but the position coaches all get strong marks. So basically it's still a wait and see approach, but if BA is giving SM more time to study film and look at players, that's a good thing and maybe something they both agreed on (after all who really wants to talk to the media!!!)


Yeah that Jones article is definitely glass half empty, maybe even 3/4 empty. Someone get that guy some Prozac.

Here's hoping Tandler is on target with all 5 of these predictions (well maybe not the 1st round draft pick)

Need to Know: Five Redskins offseason predictions | CSN Mid-Atlantic (http://www.csnmidatlantic.com/washington-redskins/need-know-five-redskins-offseason-predictions?p=ya5nbcs&ocid=yahoo&yptr=yahoo)

Are you kidding me? His final two predictions coming true would lead to failure, IMO.

They are:

"The Redskins’ free agency activity won’t be as high as many expect—I’ll go into some detail on this in the next couple of days but the bottom line is that a lot teams with a lot of cap room will be chasing after a very small pool of quality free agents. Bruce Allen, Scot McCloughan and Eric Schaffer will adjust their valuations accordingly but they aren’t going to get into any big-time bidding wars. Maybe they land Bennie Logan and one other upper-tier player but other than that look for late-March bargains."

Yeah, that worked out great the last two years (sarcasm).

Their top draft pick won’t be a defensive lineman—Although I’ve written that it looks like the Redskins’ biggest need could match up with the best available player when they are on the clock at 17. But the more I think about it, the more I think that we’ll have another McCloughan curve ball. I do think that a D-lineman will become a Redskin at some point before the third round ends but a player at another position will be out there getting the bro hug from Roger Goodell and holding up the Redskins jersey with No. 1 on it.

If the BPA at #17 is a DL and the Skins don't draft him, I might burst into flame.

If we fire Scot after next yr, and let Kirk walk. I'm 110% done.

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We have seen how they operate. They will patiently go after 2nd tier free agents, if a marquee free agent hits the market that they covet they will get the first visit and do everything they can to sign them.

Only reason to fire Scot McCloughan is if Bobby Beathard wanted to come back and be our GM, and he's like 80 years old!

I agree with telling SM to really focus on player personnel, but putting him on the hot seat is a bit ridiculous.

We have seen how they operate. They will patiently go after 2nd tier free agents, if a marquee free agent hits the market that they covet they will get the first visit and do everything they can to sign them.

Yep. I hope they keep doing it this way