Redskins Make Changes to Front Office Structure

Sounds like some folks think Schaeffer's title should have been GM


Charley Casserly @CharleyCasserly · 42m42 minutes ago
The @Redskins Eric Schaeffer the new VP of Football Operations is very talented & could be a President of an NFL team right now


Louis Riddick‏Verified account @LRiddickESPN · 38m38 minutes ago
My man Eric Schaffer being named VP of Football Ops in Washington long overdue. He is legit. He should be running the whole show somewhere


One thing working against Schaffer, never working in Tampa Bay.

I'm not sure about his football acumen, but I know from years of wiggling in stupid free agent contracts against a salary cap that he has my full confidence in all contractual matters. With our luck he'll be hired as a team president/gm somewhere next year. Although in all honesty I'm not sure how we've managed to retain him all these years.

I'm ok with stability, I like the way we're building the team this offseason, nothing really splashy, but solid football choices so far.

Has there ever been any indication that Doug Williams knows anything at all about player personnel? Did i hear you say "No"? Well, that's great then! He's the perfect empty suit with no power to occupy a meaningless title under the autocratic rule of Bruce Allen. Allen has what he wants now. Let's see how he performs without a blueprint from Scot M.

I like it, I guess. For those still upset about McC; he was no big lost, if he was so great some other team would have got him by now.

IMO I think we had a very good offseason at least on paper. Don't feed into the negative media shit about the Skins; sign KC to a good contract and the Skins had a very good offseason.

Is it possible that perhaps Scot M cannot legally go to work for another NFL club until after a certain period of time? Someone else on here i believe was saying at the time that the redskins had reached some sort of settlement privately with Scott M, i'm just saying that might be part of that...

The jury is still out, this last draft had McC all over it. Let's see what this guys can do next year.

And then there was 1 (move left).

Doug Williams promoted in Washington front office | The MMQB with Peter King (http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2017/06/14/doug-williams-washington-nfl-front-office-peter-king-mailbag)

I was extremely irritated by the press conference. The moves are all fine, they basically formalize the way the 'Skins have basically been operating since McC left. But in the press conference Bruce Allen was incredibly vague about the org structure despite being pointedly asked by Liz Clarke to explain how the hierarchy is set up. And when asked who will have say on various matters, he continues to use the vague phrase "it will be a Redskins decision".

That dancing around just irks me. He's intentionally obfuscating the delineation of responsibility so that everyone remains fuzzy as to whether he deserves credit for successes / blame for failures.

It sounds like Scott Campbell has been elevated and I expect him to mostly continue to craft the draft board. Doug's strength is said to be evaluation of character, work ethic, the intangibles. I don't think I want Doug setting the draft board, but I don't think he will.

And I think Gruden will continue to be listened to, which is good.

So the moves are all fine, I just f'ing hate Allen. He's such a snake. Keep the picture fuzzy so that if it goes well you can claim the success as your own, and if it goes poorly then you can point the finger at others.

I was extremely irritated by the press conference. The moves are all fine, they basically formalize the way the 'Skins have basically been operating since McC left. But in the press conference Bruce Allen was incredibly vague about the org structure despite being pointedly asked by Liz Clarke to explain how the hierarchy is set up. And when asked who will have say on various matters, he continues to use the vague phrase "it will be a Redskins decision".

That dancing around just irks me. He's intentionally obfuscating the delineation of responsibility so that everyone remains fuzzy as to whether he deserves credit for successes / blame for failures.

It sounds like Scott Campbell has been elevated and I expect him to mostly continue to craft the draft board. Doug's strength is said to be evaluation of character, work ethic, the intangibles. I don't think I want Doug setting the draft board, but I don't think he will.

And I think Gruden will continue to be listened to, which is good.

So the moves are all fine, I just f'ing hate Allen. He's such a snake. Keep the picture fuzzy so that if it goes well you can claim the success as your own, and if it goes poorly then you can point the finger at others.

Allen is half weasel half snake, I've just learned to accept it becuase he's not going away anytime soon, so it appears.

I'd be interested to know what Williams, Schaffer, Campbell say about him when he's not around. I can't imagine they like him, and know he'll blame them as soon as things go wrong.

Williams is a Skins hero, Allen, you're not. Tread very lightly.