Redskins studs and duds from Week 13 win over Carolina
By Ian Cummings
Dud No. 1 – The #FireBruceAllen movement
The Redskins win on Sunday was another boost for a locker room that didn’t have much reason for excitement earlier in the year. It’s hard to say that winning could ultimately doom the Redskins, but the peculiar situation of Dan Snyder and Bruce Allen makes it possible.
A report surfaced earlier in the week that Snyder was seriously evaluating Bruce Allen’s future with the team, for the first time in Allen’s tenure as team president. That tenure isn’t defined by the team’s 3-9 2019 season alone, but also by a near decade of mediocrity, dysfunction, and failure before it.
The team has a budding young core with potential, but if Bruce Allen remains the one in charge of incubating and building on that young core, then the endeavor is almost guaranteed to end in disappointment. Everyone knows this, and yet, Allen’s job could be safe yet.
If Snyder was basing his decision on the body of work as a whole, the decision would have already been made. These last few games, whether they should or not, have meaning toward Allen’s future, and if the team shows promise, even if it’s organic and not attributed to Allen, it could be cause for Snyder to keep his friend on the staff and restart the predictable cycle.
The Redskins may have won on Sunday, but the #FireBruceAllen movement lost, and time for a rebound is running out.