Who will be the next coach of the Redskins and does it even freakin matter?

Alex Smith is getting paid next year even if he doesn’t play, so why not use his NFL smarts? He’s a great mentor for Haskins and he is well thought of in the league. He knows far more than Bruce Allen, who is just a yes-man hack, with little or no NFL knowledge.

It’s important for Snyder to have someone to consult with, in order to fire Bruce. Snyder will only move on from BA with a new advisor. We could do far worse than Alex Smith and it allows Snyder to fire BA.


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Alex Smith is getting paid next year even if he doesn’t play, so why not use his NFL smarts? He’s a great mentor for Haskins and he is well thought of in the league. He knows far more than Bruce Allen, who is just a yes-man hack, with little or no NFL knowledge.

It’s important for Snyder to have someone to consult with, in order to fire Bruce. Snyder will only move on from BA with a new advisor. We could do far worse than Alex Smith and it allows Snyder to fire BA.


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I can't agree with this post enough. Snyder is hanging out with an actual football man. That's a major improvement over his last two "football" men.

Alex Smith is getting paid next year even if he doesn’t play, so why not use his NFL smarts? He’s a great mentor for Haskins and he is well thought of in the league. He knows far more than Bruce Allen, who is just a yes-man hack, with little or no NFL knowledge.

It’s important for Snyder to have someone to consult with, in order to fire Bruce. Snyder will only move on from BA with a new advisor. We could do far worse than Alex Smith and it allows Snyder to fire BA.


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While I agree that Snyder will benefit more from hanging out with Alex than Bruce, Cerrato, and the other guys who have been close to him over the years, I think you are making a huge leap to believe Smith would advise Dan to fire Bruce.

Bruce "masterminded" the trade to get Alex from KC and pushed for the long-term contract before Smith ever played a snap. Its quite likely that Smith has a far more favorable view of Bruce than you believe. He certainly doesn't strike me as the type of guy who would "bite the hand that feeds him" by turning against Bruce. Their conversations are most likely centered more on Haskins and his development and the kind of coaching moves that could be made to assist in his development. Which brings me to the following:

Smith could even be advising Snyder NOT to fire Bruce and give him more time. Instead, he might even be working on behalf of Snyder to convince Bieniemy that Bruce really isn't that bad and that he can succeed here where others failed. If Allen stays and they were to get Beiniemy, Dan, Bruce, and Alex would all consider it a home run success.

While I agree that Snyder will benefit more from hanging out with Alex than Bruce, Cerrato, and the other guys who have been close to him over the years, I think you are making a huge leap to believe Smith would advise Dan to fire Bruce.

Bruce "masterminded" the trade to get Alex from KC and pushed for the long-term contract before Smith ever played a snap. Its quite likely that Smith has a far more favorable view of Bruce than you believe. He certainly doesn't strike me as the type of guy who would "bite the hand that feeds him" by turning against Bruce. Their conversations are most likely centered more on Haskins and his development and the kind of coaching moves that could be made to assist in his development. Which brings me to the following:

Smith could even be advising Snyder NOT to fire Bruce and give him more time. Instead, he might even be working on behalf of Snyder to convince Bieniemy that Bruce really isn't that bad and that he can succeed here where others failed. If Allen stays and they were to get Beiniemy, Dan, Bruce, and Alex would all consider it a home run success.

That last paragraph is a nightmare scenario.

I also hope Alex is smart enough to know he doesn't need to advise Dan on anything FO related unless Dan specifically asks for his opinion, and even then hopefully he'd lead with "I'm not going to tell you how to run your franchise, but I think you'd have a hard time bringing in the best candidates if Bruce was still running the ops."

What a stunner, of the 9 NFL head coaching jobs that ESPN predicts will he open at the end of the season they pick the Redskins as the worst and Cowboys as the best.

Why not hire a proven GM and let him bring in the HC? Just thinking logically here...


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I think all of the debate is fun, but ultimately pointless as it pertains to Bruce's future in DC. I think at this point we can all safely say that Bruce is going nowhere anytime soon unless he chooses to retire.

I think all of the debate is fun, but ultimately pointless as it pertains to Bruce's future in DC. I think at this point we can all safely say that Bruce is going nowhere anytime soon unless he chooses to retire.

And I thought I was a major pessimist.

And I thought I was a major pessimist.

I really try to not be a pessimist. People on here may think otherwise, but i think when you look back over the whole Bruce saga, there has been SO MANY times that we believed that Bruce's job was in danger, and looking back in hindsight it was never true, it was just BS stories made up by reporters that had no factual basis. In the early internet days, you would call it "click bait". But yet's that's exactly what Chris Russell and his peers did after the Green Bay game.

I mean no disrespect to Russell, he is plugged in and knows his shit and many times he is the first to break legit stories that no one else even knew of / had early access to. It's kind of like the boy who cried wolf, in a way. One day, years down the road, there will be real, legit news of Bruce retiring / being fired, etc., and we won't believe it. Because we have been burned so many times in the past.

I really try to not be a pessimist. People on here may think otherwise, but i think when you look back over the whole Bruce saga, there has been SO MANY times that we believed that Bruce's job was in danger, and looking back in hindsight it was never true, it was just BS stories made up by reporters that had no factual basis. In the early internet days, you would call it "click bait". But yet's that's exactly what Chris Russell and his peers did after the Green Bay game.



I mean no disrespect to Russell, he is plugged in and knows his shit and many times he is the first to break legit stories that no one else even knew of / had early access to. It's kind of like the boy who cried wolf, in a way. One day, years down the road, there will be real, legit news of Bruce retiring / being fired, etc., and we won't believe it. Because we have been burned so many times in the past.



You may be right, because Snyder is an idiot owner who keeps sycophants such as Bruce Allen around to suck up fan hatred and vitriol AND to suck up to him. However, the team has just had a historically terrible season. 3 wins is not “damn close” to anything and even Snyder can see that (although he may ignore it as he has done before). The team is going backwards, it is easy for anyone to see that the fan base is disappearing. I was at the game today and in my section their were about twice as many Eagles as Redskins fans. Even with the massive influx of Eagles fans, the stadium was 30% or more empty. This has happened every game this year.

So what MAY be different this year?

1. No real NFL-qualified HC candidate will come here with BA in any capacity on this team. 10 years of failure under different coaches shows that it is impossible to win with BA around. Since Washington is considered the WORST location to go to for the eight or nine teams to be looking HC’s, it’s the candidates that are in the drivers seat NOT Snyder. I believe that the best candidates will tell Snyder TO HIS FACE, that getting rid of BA and other changes will be necessary to even CONSIDER this horrible franchise.

2. Whether this season or in the future, the NFL will tell Snyder to fix this franchise’s many problems. The NFL television cameras may ignore and try to obscure the empty stadium or massive opposing team’s infiltration but it can’t do so forever. IF just one game DIDN’T have 30,000-40,000 yelling fans from the other team, the stadium might be just 30% full of REDSKINS fans. That’s impossible for the NFL to ignore. Snyder is the NFL joke and fool but if the fan support continues to deteriorate it makes the NFL look bad. Even he must worry about that although I’m sure BA is telling him the team is “damn close” to getting better. Lol.

We’ll know soon. I’m very cautiously optimistic that BA will be gone.






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