BREAKING NEWS: Cerrato resigns (Bruce Allen hired as VP/GM) - merged

[backrow]

Best assessment of Bruce!

It includes who he might hire as coach, Both good and bad Draft picks, FA signings and trades, players who should be worried about his arrival, and finally, a first stab at a potential Mock Draft.


Akh Blog: End of an era, beginning of a new | hailRedskins.com


Gotta love this guy at HailRedskins! Oh, yeah! HTTR!

And, I'm not him, but I like his work!

[mlmdub130]

Originally Posted by backrow

Best assessment of Bruce!

It includes who he might hire as coach, Both good and bad Draft picks, FA signings and trades, players who should be worried about his arrival, and finally, a first stab at a potential Mock Draft.


Akh Blog: End of an era, beginning of a new | hailRedskins.com


Gotta love this guy at HailRedskins! Oh, yeah! HTTR!

And, I'm not him, but I like his work!

awesome link, good points, thanks

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by backrow

Best assessment of Bruce!

It includes who he might hire as coach, Both good and bad Draft picks, FA signings and trades, players who should be worried about his arrival, and finally, a first stab at a potential Mock Draft.


Akh Blog: End of an era, beginning of a new | hailRedskins.com


Gotta love this guy at HailRedskins! Oh, yeah! HTTR!

And, I'm not him, but I like his work!

Good link, good read. He called Larry Michael a "Snyderette!" LMAO.

A buddy of mine is a video editor over at Comcast, and he text me today that one of the guys over there had inside info that Shanahan is a "done deal." Whatever that's worth.

I'd probably rather have Gruden, but I won't be mad at a two time Super Bowl winner coming in to take over coaching (hopefully with his son) with a true GM shopping for the groceries.

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Fyi Allen was NOT GM in Oakland. al Davis made all major decisions and Allen handled contracts and other technical issues.

[mlmdub130]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

Fyi Allen was NOT GM in Oakland

your right he was a football executive and he won executive of the year in 2002, as well as other a few divisional championships. whats your point?

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by mlmdub130

your right he was a football executive and he won executive of the year in 2002, as well as other a few divisional championships. whats your point?

Because people keep talking about his alleged draft record

[mlmdub130]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

Because people keep talking about his alleged draft record

cerrato hasn't been a gm all these years, and snyder has never taken the tittle of gm either but they have both had in a hand in almost all the draft picks of the last decade have they not? just beacuse he doen't have the title of "draft guy" does not mean he doesn't have any in put or has learned from his experiences on other teams.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

Because people keep talking about his alleged draft record

We'll never know with each pick how much was Allen and how much was Undead Al. We can still talk about picks made on his watch. They are part of his record even if Undead Al was a significant author of that record.

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by Lotus

We'll never know with each pick how much was Allen and how much was Undead Al. We can still talk about picks made on his watch. They are part of his record even if Undead Al was a significant author of that record.

We do know - big al made the decisions in Oakland. In Tampa, Gruden generally made the decisions. Allen is NOT a personnel guy which is why Snyder and Allen will either promote or bring in a personnel guy to make those decisions here. For all intents and purposes, Allen will end up being more of a president than a GM, atleast if JLCs reports are to be believed.

[mlmdub130]

bha would you have been happy with anyone?

[mlmdub130]

is he the number one guy for the job maybe not, i honestly don't think there is any perfect guy for the job at this point we have very unusual conditions here in dc and whoever could have been up for the job would no doubt have their hands full, i'm just glad to see some one with some football background and some success in their football background here, and am looking forward to see what happens

[tryfuhl]

A couple of people have mentioned it but whether you agree with the pick or not it's a step in the right direction. We laid the foundation and are framing the house before we're trying to put the roof on. Also, I'll repeat what I said earlier, who really thinks that we had a bunch of guys that we may have wanted that wanted us in return? I mean could you really see a Piolo, etc coming to the Skins?

[The Goat]

What I know about Allen seems like a big improvement over Vinny. But here's the billion dollar question: is Allen a guy who will keep Snyder from meddling in the football decisions?

[GMScud]

On a side note, this is already a legendary thread in Warpath history. Nearly 10,000 views in just 16 or so hours. That's over 10 views a minute. Great stuff.

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by GMScud

On a side note, this is already a legendary thread in Warpath history. Nearly 10,000 views in just 16 or so hours. That's over 10 views a minute. Great stuff.

twp is the ONLY site that I mention to real skins fans that I come across

you can't ask for a better community.. that's why I went VIP even knowing the site is likely fine monetarily