Fanspeak: Redskins Personnel

Though Jay Gruden’s background may be on the offensive side of the ball, his first real task as the Redskins head coach is to fix the Redskins defense. Mike Shanahan largely ignored the Redskins defense and a once proud unit turned into one of the league’s worst during his four year tenure. Now if Gruden … More »

With the Redskins hiring of Bengals offensive coordinator Jay Gruden, it is likely they might have an interest in some of his former players as they hit free agency this year. Here are 5 of the most likely candidates to be wearing Burgundy and Gold next year: 1. T Anthony Collins: -Collins has been the … More »

The writing was on the wall for Jay Gruden to be the Redskins next head coach. Between his ties to Bruce Allen, who was his G.M. when he was on his brother John’s staff in Tampa, to the coaches the Redskins retained who had previously worked with Jay Gruden (Jim Haslett, Raheem Morris and Sean … More »

Why The Redskins want him: Fangio is one of the top defensive coordinators in the game and has learned from some of the best defensive minds, which makes him an intriguing candidate to help fix the Redskins woeful defense. Fangio got his professional start under Jim Mora Sr. with the Philadelphia Stars of the USFL … More »

Perhaps the biggest failure of the Mike Shanahan era (sad to say there are a number of contenders for this title), was his decision to move the Redskins from a 4-3 defense to a 3-4 team. It’s not so much that the 3-4 is a bad defense as many top teams still employ a version … More »

With the Bengals and Packers losses on Sunday in the Wild Card Round, their assistants are now free to both interview and be hired by perspective teams. Other coaches from teams moving on can interview in their home city at the playoff team’s convenience, but any follow up interview and hiring can’t take place until … More »

Watching the playoffs last night reaffirmed one major thing from the Mike Shanahan era: he is a bigger liar than Keyser Soze. Shanahan’s whole “5 year” plan is completely bogus and every year the playoffs proves that to be the case. Pretty much each and every one of these teams in the post season has … More »

The Redskins are in the midst of a head coaching search that in many ways will set the tone of this franchise for the next 5-10 years. While any coaching change can bring change and have a lasting impact, the Redskins are at a precipice here. They are coming off their worst season since the … More »

With Bill O’Brien taking the Texans job and Lovie Smith set to take the Buccaneers job, two of the most talked about candidates are off the board for the Washington Redskins. If you add in the fact that it appears likely that Bill Cowher is staying in the booth and David Shaw is staying at … More »

1. Don’t give a coach complete control over the team: -Bruce Allen has the title of G.M. and executive president, but it is well known that Mike Shanahan rules with an iron fist. He’s in complete control of draft and personnel decisions as well as other things such as moving training camp, what type of … More »