Snyder Hires Shanahan Not the GM

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Originally Posted by Paintrain

At the risk of sounding like a dick, anyone who cannot recognize that Allen/Shanahan is the best thing that's happened to this franchise since '93 is a moron.

We've all been screaming for a 'football guy' which Allen clearly is. We clearly need a powerful, respected head coach, which Shanahan clearly is. Look, Snyder is going to be involved at some level. Get used to it or get over it. I'm choosing to believe that he's going to let Shanahallen do their thing and not micro-manage them.

If I'm proven wrong then blast me for being naive but the negative nellies who will find something wrong with everything the franchise does are really annoying.

Paintrain:

I think you got it right. Allen/Shannahan will be a more competent "football pair" at the top of the organization than has been here since the departure of Bobby Beathard at the end of the 1980s.

I am willing to suspend my disbelief that Danny Boy will step out of the way for a while and let these guys try to put some order into the chaos that is this team. Allen said in his presser that the new coach - - presumably but not yet certainly Shannahan - - has to be able to get the players already in the locker room to perform at levels they have never performed before. That means lots of these guys are going to be coming back. That means Danny Boy isn't going to go nuts in an uncapped year and try to buy up half the league. For the recrod: That's a good thing.