Daniel Snyder Rethinks the Stink, Hires Bruce Allen as Redskins GM

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Published: December 17, 2009

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... many of you, I did not expect Snyder to make an intelligent football move this winter.

He surprised me with two.

Snyder finagled the removal of Vinny Cerrato as executive vice president of football operations.

Then, he signed Bruce Allen as Redskins Executive Vice President and General Manager.

I'm more impressed by the Allen hire than by the push to Cerrato.  

The Redskins and the media are already making too much of Allen's family connection to the Redskins. Allen is the son of former Redskin and Hall Of Fame coach George Allen and former Virginia governor and U.S. Senator George Allen.

Don't be impressed by that. It's fluff.

The point is that Bruce Allen can manage a salary cap and run a team. That's not just my opinion. J. I. Halsell, former Redskin cap analyst and Football Outsiders columnist, wrote this about Allen last summer:

"If you are a club looking for a front office executive, given the job he...

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