RUMOR: Bruce Allen to Redskins?

[freddyg12]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

The friendship between Dan Snyder and Vinny Cerrato is sooooo overblown, VC was actually probably better friends with Gerald Snyder than with Cerrato.

And Snyder's "meddling" in team affairs is overblown as well, especially in relation to other owners' "meddling" with their teams.

But ultimately it doesn't matter. Ultimately, VC just has to be removed from any football-related decision making. Not so much because of what he has and hasn't accomplished, but because fans just don't believe anything but what they decided to believe a long time ago.

As for Sean Taylor, we miss him big time on the field! Big time! Not to mention the fact that were he alive we probably would have spent the picks on Moore and/or Horton elsewhere, perhaps the line.

I don't have your sources Smoot, so I just base my opinions on what I read & what's reported by espn et al. I don't know the extent of the 'meddling.' Maybe it should be clarified that Snyder negotiates contracts & makes some major personel decisions as a matter of standard business. If he doesn't do that, then I've been misled by various reporters.

Maybe that is what many fans see as "meddling." Rather than getting caught up in semantics, I'll just say that it appears to me that he makes or influences decisions that he is not best suited to, based on his background (he's been owner for 10 years now but he still doesn't have a lot of football experience).

What complicates this for many fans is that Snyder isn't very accessible and doesn't reach out to the fan base.

I truly hope he's giving Vinny the space he needs, and I would love to see both of them succeed of course. I even believe they can, it's just my opinion that in order to do so Snyder needs to change more than Vinny does. But if their personal relationship gets in the way - which again I don't know - then some change is needed.