2009 Skins Off Season Plans Ideas, Draft and FA plus cuts

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Originally Posted by gaudiomatt

I'm only on the Allen bandwagon because it's a rumor right now.

Fair enough, I think that rumor is dying down a bit now.

Personally, I don't think Allen is substantially better than anything we currently have in our personnel department and it's not like his hiring would be the catalyst toward landing some big-time coach, such as Cowher, if that was a direction we took.

I would like to see the final authority over the entire process handed over to either Scott Campbell or Morocco Brown before we bring in someone like Bruce Allen.

But more than anything, we need some stability in our philosophy. I think that's a much bigger deal than who the coach is or who the general manager is. We must commit to commitment! Look at the Steelers for example, even when they changed from Cowher to Tomlin their identity (hard nosed defense, control the clock) remained the same. When the Giants went from Ernie Accorsi to Jerry Reese their identity (build through the draft, fill through free agency) remained constant.

For various reasons we have lacked a consistent identity for nearly the past decade, save for when Gibbs was here (but even then may have een suspect). Our changes were as radical as they could possibly be, Martyball to the Fun and Gun, Gibbs/Saunders to the West Coast. With such radical shifts in philosophies and identities it's a wonder we haven't been worse.