Rifts between Shanahan and Snyder?

[JoeRedskin]

Anyone hear about this:

Front-office rifts already on horizon in Washington

Reading the underlying article there is a one paragraph comment midway through the page. Is this just paff / hangover / speculation based on DS old habits and the knee jerk reaction from media that DS has to have his fingers involved in everything?

Haven't seen anything to back it up whatsoever.

[Hog1]

ONLY 7 mos til' training camp............

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

Anyone hear about this:

Front-office rifts already on horizon in Washington

Reading the underlying article there is a one paragraph comment midway through the page. Is this just paff / hangover / speculation based on DS old habits and the knee jerk reaction from media that DS has to have his fingers involved in everything?

Haven't seen anything to back it up whatsoever.

Fact or fiction, you have just seen the premise of every JLC note on the Redskins off-season.

[SBXVII]

Saw this on another site and not one could provide any proof to back up a rift between the two or three, DS, MS, and Allen.

The way I see it... Allen might not be Snyders first pick but he was a package deal with Shanahan whome Snyder covets, is friends with, and has talked to on many occassions even while Shanahan was with Denver. So what on earth could piss Snyder off enough that would make him not happy with his coveted HC that he is friends with and worked so hard to bring on board?

On top of that Snyder promised to not meddle and leave all decisions to the GM and HC. So now he's upset and what? is he going to meddle? No the first year didn't go well, but the team doesn't have all the players needed to run the type of offense or defense they want to run. You hire someone for 5 yrs either give them the 5 yrs to fix this mess that Cerrato created over 10yrs or don't give long term contracts to the coach's. Hire them for 2yrs or 3yrs only. On a side note he was going to let Gibbs2 fulfill his contract but Gibbs2 bailed on the 5th yr.

It sounds like a lot of unhappy people trying to create a rift where there is none in hopes the coaching staff is fired for whoever they would like to have in place.

[Hog1]

Lets see..........5 year deal?
So that's like...build off first year record of 10-6 and win the SB four consecutive years?
It's GREAT to be a Skins fan.........

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

Fact or fiction, you have just seen the premise of every JLC note on the Redskins off-season.

Yeah. The first thing I thought of was "Where's JLC's name? It's gotta be here somewhere."

[skinsfaninok]

And so it begins again. Smh

This will never end until DS is gone

[SmootSmack]

Non-story

[IrMitchell]

"Why would you disgrace Donovan McNabb like that!!!!!?!?!??!?!" - Snyder
"The guy couldn't play football for me Dan, We're drafting a rookie." - Shanahan
"Fine. Want to sign Richard Seymour, Randy Moss, and Champ Bailey this off season?" - Snyder
"No just go sit at one of your condos and stay away from football." - Shanahan
"Fine." - Snyder

"WOW, I heard Shanahan and Snyder got into an arguement!?!?!? Better tell the world!!!" - Reporters/Fans

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by skinsfaninok

And so it begins again. Smh

This will never end until DS is gone

This will never end simply because the media know they can publish that line and will get a sufficient amount of web hits to follow. This type of single line, no proof, web analysis would never have flown in the newspaper days, and I don't think even ESPN would publish something that so significantly lacks credible source material. But within a few days, this one little post will have served as backbone for so many web followups, that eventually the real media will start publishing it's unsourced material as evidence of a bigger rift

[skinsfan69]

I heard on the radio this am that Jay Glazer has mentioned the same thing. Basically that Snyder did not like the way Shanahan handled the McNabb/Haynesworth situations. And that since Bruce Allen has a relationship with Gruden that he would not be surprised if Gruden ended up in Washington.

[SirClintonPortis]

Snyder - he's as relevant as he is short.

Shanahan - top dog. He oversaw everything in Denver. His OWN book mentioned that"

"Now, is it error free? No, nothing is. But by having scouts talking with players, position coaches studying players, coordinators supervising their decisions and me overlooking everything, we have prepared ourselves to limit our mistakes."

Read more at the Washington Examiner: Thom Loverro: Can Shanahan draft like a champion? | Washington Examiner

Bruce Allen - salary cap/contract master. Also probably does the wheeling and dealing for whatever Shanahan asks of him, i.e Shanahan wanted Campbell gone, Allen did the talking with Al Davis. After all, it's unlikely Al Davis and Shanahan could get far in negotiations.

[MTK]

Not buying it.

At all.

[Defensewins]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

I heard on the radio this am that Jay Glazer has mentioned the same thing. Basically that Snyder did not like the way Shanahan handled the McNabb/Haynesworth situations. And that since Bruce Allen has a relationship with Gruden that he would not be surprised if Gruden ended up in Washington.

That's like me saying....I would not be surprised if a meteor hit the Earth at some point in time and extinguished all life.
No real story real here just huge speculation.

I do have one theory that has been in the back of my mind since this whole AH saga started this training camp....just a theory....I wondered if AH was forced on Shanahan by Snyder because of AH's contract. Snyder made a mandate if we can not trade AH for at least a 2nd we keep him. Shanahan was desperate to unload AH at any cost and out of frustration said fine I will make this fat boy's life miserable to make him either quit or make him look bad until he quits. Either way Shanahan eventually got what he wanted which was AH off the roster with no pay.
Did Snyder figure it out and this combined with the mishandling of McNabb, maybe Snyder is starting want to pull in the slack of the FO reigns a bit?

[Ruhskins]

We need to start giving JLC the Florio treatment.