Jay Gruden hired as head coach of the Redskins

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

I understand the sentiment. Whenever we hire a new guy, you first have to convince them that all the "better" ways really aren't. But I don't think you can just assume from a JLC article that we are being the outlier he makes us seem like. And when you look at the coaching hires of the past two years (my last post) I think it should put your mind a little at ease.

Again, JLC is not affecting my argument.

Crucial here is not the number of contract years but the number of guaranteed years (this is not reflected on your list).

And I'm willing to grant that this individual issue is not a big deal. But having seen us fail to reinvent the wheel again and again, every attempt to be "different" (like having a GM whose specialty is not talent evaluation and giving an unusual contract to our new HC) makes me very leery.

And I'm left with the question: why not just do things the normal way?