Redskins Offseason Thread

[FrenchSkin]

Today Cooley and Kevin discussed LaFemina's nomination and its implications.

Cooley thinks it has nothing to do, one way nor the other, with Bruce Allen leaving or staying. He's even guessing Bruce hired Brian LF.

They think it means 2 things:

-Bruce Allen was in charge of picking a location for the new stadium, that choice has been made (probably will be announced in the summer), and now LaFemina is here to take care of this new stadium and its build up.

-Bruce Allen will now focus back to football operations (not that he wasn't implicated in them before).

That's quite exciting, isn't it?

I know Bruce doesn't get a lot of love (understandably), but I think continuity is a valuable asset, and this offseason he has done a solid job (AS trade, contracts negotiations, cap management...).

As for the new stadium, I've always understood nobody really likes FedEx Field so it has to feel like a good news.
Hope I'd get a chance to see a game there before the team changes stadium, so I can compare!

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[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by FrenchSkin

Today Cooley and Kevin discussed LaFemina's nomination and its implications.

Cooley thinks it has nothing to do, one way nor the other, with Bruce Allen leaving or staying. He's even guessing Bruce hired Brian LF.

They think it means 2 things:

-Bruce Allen was in charge of picking a location for the new stadium, that choice has been made (probably will be announced in the summer), and now LaFemina is here to take care of this new stadium and its build up.

-Bruce Allen will now focus back to football operations (not that he wasn't implicated in them before).

That's quite exciting, isn't it?

I know Bruce doesn't get a lot of love (understandably), but I think continuity is a valuable asset, and this offseason he has done a solid job (AS trade, contracts negotiations, cap management...).

As for the new stadium, I've always understood nobody really likes FedEx Field so it has to feel like a good news.
Hope I'd get a chance to see a game there before the team changes stadium, so I can compare!

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So last week, amidst reports Allen was linked to the Raiders, the departure of Scott Campbell, and reports that Kyle Smiths stock was rising, Cooley said Bruce was likely on the way out.

Now someone has been hired who reports directly to Snyder and whose job title arguable is superior to Allen’s, and Cooley is saying “nothing to see here.”

Hmmmmm.

Also, Bruce focusing on football operations is not an “exciting” thing. We don’t want him anywhere near football operations. His strength is the non-football, business side of things. He’s regularly botched football stuff - like his handling of the McCloughan fiasco last year - which reportedly pissed off snyder. Interesting timing that the report said Snyder tried to get LaFemina last year. There is way too much smoke here to not have any fire.




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[FrenchSkin]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

So last week, amidst reports Allen was linked to the Raiders, the departure of Scott Campbell, and reports that Kyle Smiths stock was rising, Cooley said Bruce was likely on the way out.

Now someone has been hired who reports directly to Snyder and whose job title arguable is superior to Allen’s, and Cooley is saying “nothing to see here.”

Hmmmmm.

Also, Bruce focusing on football operations is not an “exciting” thing. We don’t want him anywhere near football operations. His strength is the non-football, business side of things. He’s regularly botched football stuff - like his handling of the McCloughan fiasco last year - which reportedly pissed off snyder. Interesting timing that the report said Snyder tried to get LaFemina last year. There is way too much smoke here to not have any fire.




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I don't remember Cooley saying Bruce was likely on his way out, he said the fact he denied it was not an indication one way or the other, that people would say that the day before they left.

I do agree it's quite a lot of smoke in the past few days though. And as Kevin Sheehan laid it out it seems like a lot of layers of upper management right now.
We'll see I guess.

For the exciting part, I was more thinking about the new stadium and continuity. If BA stays I don't see his role changing, he won't be more implicated in football operations than he already was.

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