Washington Redskins: Why Bruce Allen and Greg Manusky must be fired

Why Bruce Allen must go

This won’t be personal shots and name-calling. I don’t know this man personally. God bless him and his family.

All of that aside, Bruce Allen is lost. His sense of reality when it comes to this football team is out of whack. It’s burnt food. It’s finished. Finito.

We all heard the press conference that was given the afternoon of October 7th. Question after question, we heard answers that were blow-offs, beat around the bush, Michael Jackson thriller, Blocboy JB shoot dances, around every single question. Bruce Allen doesn’t give complete answers with this team. His “State of the Team” address after the firing of Coach Gruden truly put things into perspective as to why the Redskins have been horrible during his decade in D.C.

The “State of the Team” address was simple. “We’ve got a damn good culture.” Bologna. That’s untrue, rotten, wrong, arrogant. If the culture was so great, why, after every single loss, do you have a bundle of talent on your roster that calls out their teammates and coaches for lack of execution and being unprepared? Why is it that every single time a player leaves D.C., you hear them happily go as if leaving Washington was the best thing to happen for them? Why does every former player, and sometimes even a current player, bash the coaching staff, and the unwillingness to put their minds toward finally reaching success? Why is that? I’ll tell you why: because the culture in the nation’s capital is non-existent. If there’s a culture that’s tied to the Redskins, it’s 139-185-1. In other words, losing.

The record of Bruce Allen as a Redskins executive is 59-89-1. Vinny Cerrato was 52-65. After the departure of Vinny Cerrato, Redskins fans thought it could never get worse. Boy, were they wrong.
Bruce Allen’s inability to set this franchise straight isn’t a slight at the teams that have been during his tenure. Bruce Allen’s agenda doesn’t fit with the Redskins, and he was never qualified to take the reins in the first place.

Bruce Allen was brought in for two reasons, one I’ll add later. One key reason was his last name. The Allen family is tied closely to the Redskins, and surely grabbing the family of Redskins alumni means everything to Dan.

In reality, he shouldn’t have been hired. He was mediocre in Tampa Bay. His record in Tampa Bay was 38-42, with as many playoff wins as me: zero. After reading numerous reports from 2009, Bruce and Co. were let go by the Buccaneers because the culture that was instilled from that regime wasn’t about winning, and more about themselves.

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The Buccaneers promoted Mark Dominik to take Allen’s spot, and they later finished with a 28-52 record, blindly promoting someone just to get Bruce out of there. Bruce Allen isn’t focused on how the Redskins are doing year-to-year in totality; he wasn’t concerned about Tampa, so what in the world makes anyone think he’s any more invested in a product that has been losing for over the last twenty years?

Don’t ever forget, the main reason why Bruce Allen was brought in was to help the Redskins finally get a new stadium, and Bruce hasn’t delivered on that, either.

This is the least of my concerns, however. A stadium won’t come until there are 60,000 Redskins fans to put in that stadium, but “shhh”. Don’t tell them that. Allen will just blame it on season ticket holders and Redskins fans for selling their tickets on second-hand sites, for why no Redskins fans are at that dump of a stadium.

Lack of accountability, immaturity, and a lack of responsibility are the three keys to this failure of a decade in D.C.

Bruce Allen holds no accountability or responsibility in his mind for the failures at hand. When asked about this season and the variety of different failures during his tenure, he states: “We’re all 0-5”, completely side-stepping like a DeMar DeRozan mid-range shot, away from the question. Yet, his answer is quite funny, because Bruce, you’re not 0-5, you’re 30 games and a tie under .500.

General manager Scot McCloughan was brought in to revive the Redskins personnel. He was beloved by fans and players alike. Say what you want about McCloughan’s tenure, but one thing everybody knows is that Bruce Allen wasn’t very happy about that. What happens next? McCloughan allegedly showed up to work intoxicated. Well, you gotta fire him now!

Then, March of 2017 hits. A fat $2.8 million grievance is filed by McCloughan. The lawsuit was aimed at the Redskins organization, with a steep amount of accusations and descriptions of the treatment Allen gave McCloughan leading up to his firing.

What does that tell you? McCloughan was wrongfully fired, and the crazy part about it is, he was hired by the Browns to be a draft consultant in 2018. Bruce Allen, making the Redskins “culture” look even worse. How do you have a culture when you’re actively promoting and committing nonsense like that?

Another Bruce fiasco is his handling of the Kirk Cousins saga. Say what you want about Kirk, but what was worse was the fact that Bruce continuously lied about giving Kirk a substantial offer that showed they wanted him in D.C., or him repeatedly calling Cousins “Kurt” during a press-release in the summer of 2017?

Now, we are here. We all heard the immaturity and lack of responsibility and accountability from Allen. It was on full display. From the mannerisms to the actual answers, he’s the problem. The Redskins are at their lowest point of the Bruce Allen era. After ducking and dodging the local media for years, Allen gave a press conference that gave answers we were all expecting to hear.
If you’ve watched the Redskins, how could you be surprised? This fanbase has the most bittersweet feeling about the Gruden firing because we all know the truth. No real change will happen if Bruce Allen is still a member of this organization.

Dan Snyder, it’s time to bring the Redskins back. Like Nav said, ever since tap tap tap, I feel like I’m back back back. We need that energy from Dan. Make the moves, trust the right people. If not, this is all just a waste of time.

This is just a scratch of the surface on Bruce Allen’s problems that he’s caused in Washington D.C.
Bruce Allen must go.

Hail to the Redskins. Hail Victory.