Jay Gruden hired as head coach of the Redskins

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Originally Posted by irish

DS does not allow anyone the freedom to pick anything when it comes to the Skins. He's a total control freak.

serious statement? I think DS has shown he gives up control to the people he trusts, ie Gibbs, Cerrato, Shanahan, now Allen. The difference with Allen, I hope, is that DS is now truly one step removed from the football operations. If DS doesn't like the show put on he fires Allen, puts a new GM in place and lets that GM run the football operations. With Gibbs/Cerrato/Shanahan, when the time came to can the coach (or the coach left in Gibbs case) DS was back picking the next coach. There is a maturation of DS at work, and I think this is a positive step in the direction of getting the Skins to be a functional (not dysfunctional) franchise. That doesn't mean Gruden will be the next great coach, but it does mean DS is moving beyond the fan/owner/gm stage to an owner/spectator/signthecheck stage, and that's a good thing.