Shanahan The New Head Coach Of the Redskins

Obviously, it's

1. Portis
2. Zorn
3. Zorn's wife

lmao... I like that one.... fo sho!!!!

4 votes now. Now CP's buddy Gilbert Arenas showed up to vote.



*Another of my favorite players who is really falling out of my favor. :(

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What are you basing this on? Do you have any evidence to support any of your rambles?

A decade of history following the team.

Denver pays 1/2 his first two years pay? If so, quite a financial triumph for the SKins! Is that legal?
I already love BA


I believe Denvers money is on top of the 7mill that he gets from the skins. So he gets 10.5 mill each year for the first 2 years. No matter what, he won't be hurting, and we didn't just throw high bid money. Maybe that's why it took a little longer(2 days, not 1 :) ) He expected to say a number, 10mil, and get it without a fight, I think Snyder has been know to do that in the past.

A decade of history following the team.

Chad Dukes is that you, no maybe it's Lavar! :)

A decade of history following the team.

So you're saying the team is never going to change. Then why bother even commenting on these things? I think everyone is in wait and see mode, but you sound almost sure that this is going to fail.

So you're saying the team is never going to change. Then why bother even commenting on these things? I think everyone is in wait and see mode, but you sound almost sure that this is going to fail.

Everyone is NOT in the wait and see mode. Everyone is drinking the koolaid. I would love if the Poll in this thread had an option for wait and see. its certainly where I would have casted my vote. I'm almost certain it will fail because this is too similar to the Marty and Gibbs situations and neither of those worked out. I think Shanahan-the-coach is the 2nd best option we could have gone. if I had to rate my happiness with that aspect of the hire, i'd probably say 8 out of 10. Its just his personnel history and the front office structure that i think is likely to screw this whole thing up.

Snyder may very well have changed and is now willing to leave the big decisions to "football guys." Bruce Allen may have somehow learned how to be a personnel guy. Shanahan may very well have learned how to be a personnel guy too. but given the histories of all three men in the areas i mentioned, I feel skepticism is appropriate in this situation.

I found the "Rise and Fall of Zorn" article interesting because it says that one of the first things that Bruce Allen did was cancel Friday coach-owner lunches. Allen apparently did so on the theory that the buck stops with him, not with Snyder. So Rick Snider's cynical article is already mistaken in saying that, "no one will push for Snyder to throttle down his involvement." Bruce Allen already has.

We have an organizational new day! True football people are running the team with minimal interference. Glory be! HTTR!

"Bruce thought that the right line of communications was between himself and the head coach". - Dan Snyder :thumb:

I'm with BHA here. A wait-and-see approach is pointless to judge the quality of the hire.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that Shanahan won't be an improvement over Jim Zorn (and twice on gameday), but the facts are that there was no actual coaching search, that this move was decided upon at least three months ago, and that I'm just not sure what the whole point of this hire really is.

Perhaps the whole point was just to try to restore respectability to the franchise as swiftly and as effectively as possible. By getting an established coach like Shanahan, you know you aren't getting a guy who can't handle the position. Maybe in the wake of Zorn's firing, that's all the plan really was.

If so, hard to complain about whether or not we actually win any playoff games in the next few years. I have a hard time seeing how this hire increases the chances of that over a hire of a lesser known name who has a similar track record of success. Maybe Mike Shanahan will be more successful here than he was in Denver, which would be great, but I'm not holding my breath.

I don't see any reason to trash this move, but if this was Plan A, I don't think this can really be considered a "top half" franchise. This move is nothing if not uninspired.