Jay Gruden hired as head coach of the Redskins

Hire me for Special Teams coach. I'm 44 years old, never played football at any level but I watched football for 34 years and I can't be worse than Burns. I would direct Kai to kick every ball out of bounds. Yep, they have it at the 40 but no TD. I would also get a punter who could directional kick and punt every ball out of bounds as well or thru the end zone. Problem solved. No need for anyone to cover anymore. We have a pretty good Field Goal kicker and all we would practice is blocking for FGs.

My thoughts exactly.

Just turned 27 myself

DS does not allow anyone the freedom to pick anything when it comes to the Skins. He's a total control freak.

I think he's shown over the past few years that he is more willing to defer to expert opinions.

While true, you have to go deeper. Why did he give up all those points?

If you think the reasons why can be fixed, then he's not the primary problem with the defense.

I don't think Haslett is a superstar D coordinator but he's strong enough. I like an attacking turnover inducing style. Dude just really needs some speed at safety and he'll have a fighting chance.Shanny let Landry walk, handed him Brandon Meriweather and was like, "dude, make this work please."

I agree with the masses who wanted a fresh start, but Haslett isn't getting multiple additional years to prove it was all Shanahan's fault. He's basically going to get one.

Gruden had some leverage, hopefully the coaches are his choice.

[QUOTE=Schneed10;1054338]Honestly how much can we really blame Haslett. The fact that he was able to do what he did when we won the division in 2012 was nothing short of remarkable, he had no talent to work with. He's shown he can coach defense, $36 million in cap space should help h

I think he can be blamed as much as Shanny. His D gave up so many points so quick it would have been hard for any offense to keep up.

Wow I thought supplanting Kirk cousins for RG3 was the answer.

DS does not allow anyone the freedom to pick anything when it comes to the Skins. He's a total control freak.

serious statement? I think DS has shown he gives up control to the people he trusts, ie Gibbs, Cerrato, Shanahan, now Allen. The difference with Allen, I hope, is that DS is now truly one step removed from the football operations. If DS doesn't like the show put on he fires Allen, puts a new GM in place and lets that GM run the football operations. With Gibbs/Cerrato/Shanahan, when the time came to can the coach (or the coach left in Gibbs case) DS was back picking the next coach. There is a maturation of DS at work, and I think this is a positive step in the direction of getting the Skins to be a functional (not dysfunctional) franchise. That doesn't mean Gruden will be the next great coach, but it does mean DS is moving beyond the fan/owner/gm stage to an owner/spectator/signthecheck stage, and that's a good thing.

Speaking of Burns, all this HC, OC, DC talk has made me forget about the fact we don't have a special teams coach either. That'll be an interesting hire. I can't even remember the last time we ran a punt or kick off back for a TD. (During the regular season, none of the Brandon Banks, pre-season garbage)

2010 Brandon Banks vs. the Lions (KR)
2008 Santana Moss vs. the Lions (PR)

With McVay as OC, will Cooley try to make a comeback?

Normally I'm all for getting younger and faster players but we don't have anyone at TE and Gruden runs a two TE system.

Reed is talented but I don't think anyone can expect him to play more than 10 games next year.

2010 Brandon Banks vs. the Lions (KR)
2008 Santana Moss vs. the Lions (PR)

2006 Antwaan Randel El vs. Colts (PR)



Wait, what? How?