Coaching and Front Office Changes

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

I would guess it had more to do with getting rid of one of Dan's cronies. Snyder no longer has any of his sycophants in the building he can use to influence football decisions. This isn't to say that Schaffer was not really good at his job, but reports were that last year, they were re-negotiating his contract and he wanted more money and more influence over personnel decisions. That is clearly not his forte, so its a good move to let him move on and bring in someone who will stay in their lane and do their job. It has also been insinuated a number of places that Shaffer was the source of a lot of the teams leaks.

I forget who it was, but I saw someone on twitter post that its a sign of a good house-cleaning when competent people lose their jobs. Rivera is bringing in people who HE hired, who are beholden to him, and who share his vision. There will be no power-plays or mutinies by any of the old hold-overs. The team will either succeed or fail based solely on the job Rivera does, and he's not going to be undermined by any of the old guard.

The skins have needed to clean house for a LONG time, and I'm glad to see the it finally playing out. I continue to be supremely impressed with everything Rivera is doing. This is the first time since Dan hired Vinny that we have legitimate reasons for complete optimism for this franchise. True football people are in charge of making the football decisions.

I agree that clearing the deep roots out is one of the reasons for the change, however, the owner Tepper is big on analytics, and Rogers was the guy they put in place to create the analytics department. I don't think that he would leave a job that has huge upside with the team owner without some incentive to build the team up here, likely including building an analytics department here (though no announcement like that has come out yet).

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

I agree that clearing the deep roots out is one of the reasons for the change, however, the owner Tepper is big on analytics, and Rogers was the guy they put in place to create the analytics department. I don't think that he would leave a job that has huge upside with the team owner without some incentive to build the team up here, likely including building an analytics department here (though no announcement like that has come out yet).

This could be my own ignorance, but I have no idea what Analytics means in terms of building a football team, other than that the Browns tried to "moneyball" football and have completely failed. I also have read that Rivera is not a big believer.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

This could be my own ignorance, but I have no idea what Analytics means in terms of building a football team, other than that the Browns tried to "moneyball" football and have completely failed. I also have read that Rivera is not a big believer.

Andrew Brandt wrote an excellent article about this.

The Browns didn't fail at "moneyball" they really didn't try it. The article talks about how the Browns hired DePodesta, but never paired him with a coach that would be on board with analytics nor did they allow him to hire a coach that would be on board with it (Hue, Kitchens were never on board with it).