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Originally Posted by AnonEmouse

That makes some sense but why give him the de facto GM role too? His football knowledge has already been shown up as severely lacking, so it would have made much more sense to hire a genuine GM under/alongside him. All goes to show to me that Snyder may be a savvy businessman and to some extent politician, but he doesn't (even after all these years) know squat about running a football team.

I assume Dan hired Allen to be his 1B - as president Allen would be in charge of hiring the football people who know what they're doing. Which - my memory is a bit hazy - he did initially. Mike Shanahan probably got GM power while he was here. When he left and Gruden came in - Gruden got Scot Mccloughan. After that experiment failed Allen probably took GM power himself which eventually helped contribute to his departure.