Louis Riddick Is Gone

The Washington Redskins have released longtime football operations official Louis Riddick, according to league sources. He must have been the guy that recommended Lloyd and Achuletta.
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There was probably a better way to fire him than to have the guy who used to report to him do the firing. Still, it's for the best. The writing had been on the wall for him for several months. I'm curious to see who moves up into his spot.

It's a good thing we don't live a few hundred years ago because I have a sneaky suspicion Snyder wouldn't fire anybody. He would just have them taken out to practice field number three blindfolded and shot. Just Kidding. Kind of.

It's a good thing we don't live a few hundred years ago because I have a sneaky suspicion Snyder wouldn't fire anybody. He would just have them taken out to practice field number three blindfolded and shot. Just Kidding. Kind of.

And his name would have been Napoleon.

I think Riddick was a goner when Cerrato realized within the last year that every free agent or trade acquisition we've made within the last few years has failed when our coaching staff had not had any direct experience with the players in question.

If you can't successfully recommend the acquisition of free agent/trade talent without relying on your own coaches for input, then you don't bring a whole lot of value.

Peace out Riddick.

Question though, why do people care how Dan Snyder chooses to fire a scout? Why do people care if Dan Snyder is a nice guy? That's what I want to know.

I think Riddick was a goner when Cerrato realized within the last year that every free agent or trade acquisition we've made within the last few years has failed when our coaching staff had not had any direct experience with the players in question.

If you can't successfully recommend the acquisition of free agent/trade talent without relying on your own coaches for input, then you don't bring a whole lot of value.

Peace out Riddick.

Question though, why do people care how Dan Snyder chooses to fire a scout? Why do people care if Dan Snyder is a nice guy? That's what I want to know.

If a guy has worked there for 7 years you'd think Snyder would have the balls to do it himself. Just another bad PR move for Dan and Vinny. Now we know that Vinny is the one guy to blame if shit doesn't go right.

At this point not giving JLC freakout material has to be a major concern as well. Seriously, this guy is on the hunt for any perceived misstep. Riddick must not have been one of his inside sources since we weren't treated to pages about how the organization dissed him.

Of course, take anything JLC reports with a grain of salt. I mean, who knows why they weren't there. And why doesn't JLC talk about what Riddick actually accomplished or didn't accomplish, particularly in the past few years?

Either way, it would have been preferable for Vinny to be there. Even though Riddick most recently reported to Campbell, under the circumstances of their professional relationship the news should have come from one level above Campbell.

Yeah pretty much they should've gotten someone besides Scott Campbell to do it, but whatever, it needed to be done and I guess they didn't really care about leaving a bad taste in his mouth.

The writing's been on the wall for several months now so this isn't that much of a suprise. Good luck to him elsewhere.

Inner workings of a business are completely unique. Given that Campbell was his boss I think it completely kosher for him to have let Riddick go. Where this type of issue needed to be settled was when they promoted Campbell over top. If they hanlded that professionally then all should be cool. In the end though I gotta agree with Schneed. Who really cares? And y?