Califan007 The Constipated Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 http://www.rotoworld.com/articles/nfl/46433/57/the-nfls-best-gms?pg=3 28. Bruce Allen - Redskins The difference between Jerry Jones and Daniel Snyder? Jones at least admits he wants to run things, and doesn’t bother funneling his moves through a puppet general manager. Snyder also has a shorter attention span. From what we can gather, he only seems interested in meddling with the big moves. But meddle he does, making a mess of his once-storied franchise, and making Allen extremely difficult to evaluate on his own merits. Under Allen/Snyder’s guidance, the Redskins have gotten extremely little bang for their buck, running up huge cap charges while nevertheless fielding one of the league’s thinnest rosters. That’s due in part to the duo’s cheating. They dumped an illegal amount of money into the uncapped year of 2010, resulting in the loss of $36 million in cap space to be spread out over 2012-13. The money is back for 2014, but coach Mike Shanahan is gone. It was alongside Shanny that Allen oversaw four relatively strong draft classes. Allen is also absent the Redskins’ No. 2 overall pick in May’s draft, the final price for the 2012 Robert Griffin III trade. Moths to the big-name flame, there’s little doubt Allen and Snyder will look to compensate for the absence of their first-rounder by spending big in free agency. There’s also little doubt that like the duo’s previous spending sprees, it will result in more “offseason victories” than actual wins. Snyder and Allen's previous spending sprees?...They ran up huge cap charges?... Am I missing something? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 That was garbage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repo_4 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Eh. Any list that has Jerruh Jones as a better GM than ANYONE else in the NFL needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Even if the did refer to him as a clown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harwich Hog Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Embarrassing article. People get paid to write these articles... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Wash, rinse and repeat by the media. All they did was change the date and a couple of names to the same article they wrote in 1999. They've been hammering the same lines for 15 years. Sad thing is, some of our fans believe them and believe the team is run the same way for 15 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Tater Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 When did Allen and Snyder go on a spending spree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickyJ Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Since when did Vinny Cerrato write for Rotoworld? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZRagone Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 We've ran up ridiculous SMALL cap chargers un Allen's tenure here. We've been relatively well constrained during free agency under Allen's tenure. And one is not acting unfairly if they are doing something every other team was legally allowed to do, so the entire notion of them "Cheating" is ridiculous. On the contrary, Allen made some EXCELLENT moves as GM that were entirely within the rules of the league, and because he did them too well the team got penalized unjustly and arguably illegally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braxford Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Yeah I am going to trust the "analysis" of a "professional writer/reporter" whose picture looks like its of some random dude from my seventh grade yearbook. Hey, look at me I can post comments on a message board....I can be a writer like this guy too...YAYYYYY!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 When did Allen and Snyder go on a spending spree?in about 24 hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elkabong82 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 What a moron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigantor Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 They dumped an illegal amount of money into the uncapped year of 2010 :lol: What fool wrote this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I mean....the roster has been extremely ****ty since he's taken over. Can't deny that. At the end of the day, that's what GMs are judged on. No mistake that the guys at the top of this list are a part of teams that win and go deep in the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSO Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Wow... that. Was. Awful. Could've focused on about a hundred other things if he wanted to talk about Allen, but absolutely none of that was relevant. Yeesh, lol. He could've also just said that it's hard to judge Allen as a Redskin, and focused on his time with the Bucs instead, because Shanny was in control for his tenure, but we'll find out more moving on. Could've also focused on Allen's ability to structure contracts well and not overpay for guys since he's been here. Can't believe how off that was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I'm pretty sure they put him that low because we do suck and wrote the rest without much research. Not really surprising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonez3 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Good article for 15 years ago and substituted Allen's name. Points backed with no facts, just opinions. The fact that the Skins weren't even in FA the last 2 years makes this article absolutely laughable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elkabong82 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 The author's right. That darn Allen has been awful. Can't believe he just signed Haynesworth to a 100 mil deal the other day and hired Jim Zorn as HC. He's also right that not breaking any written rules but going against illegal collusion (the actual cheating) is cheating. Author must be Mara's inbred cousin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExoDus84 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 The "author" of that article is clearly a slack-jawed idiot. Who needs facts when you can make **** up and get a few clicks? Pretty sad when garbage like this is printed on the web. No journalistic standards anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roanoker Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Somewhere Rotoworld stole a village idiot. What a bunch of BS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlvinWaltonIsMyBoy Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 The article is poorly written, sure. I don't agree with the reasons they put Bruce at 28, they don't make any sense. But how much higher than 28 does Bruce need to be? I think Bruce gets the inevitable "Vinny" bump from our fanbase. We were so happy to see him go, that we heap, in my opinion, undo amounts of praise on Bruce. I know I'm in the minority, but I think some of the salary cap penalty falls directly on Bruce. I'm not gonna rehash that whole argument here. My question would be, where would you rank Bruce? If we open up FA tomorrow by signing Talib and Sproles to big deals, I think 28 would be about right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 The article is poorly written, sure. I don't agree with the reasons they put Bruce at 28, they don't make any sense. But how much higher than 28 does Bruce need to be? I think Bruce gets the inevitable "Vinny" bump from our fanbase. We were so happy to see him go, that we heap, in my opinion, undo amounts of praise on Bruce. I know I'm in the minority, but I think some of the salary cap penalty falls directly on Bruce. I'm not gonna rehash that whole argument here. My question would be, where would you rank Bruce? If we open up FA tomorrow by signing Talib and Sproles to big deals, I think 28 would be about right. But Allen hasn't done that yet..so based on what he has done so far, where would you rank him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlvinWaltonIsMyBoy Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Sorry for getting ahead of myself, Cali. I truly hope we make some great moves this year. I'm definitely a blind homer in a lot of ways. I would slate him around 23. Regardless of what Shanny did, had control over, whatever...Bruce has been the GM of our team the last four years. And our finish last year was among the worst displays of football I have ever watched in DC. He has to take some blame for that hot garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjblair Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Yeah little Danny has never gone on a spending spree so the writer is a hack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MumboSauce Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 regurgitated utter rubbish. -end. Only because some just make pieces up based on previous regimes and what the status quo was..not the current. Regardless I wanted a different GM and until Snyder has any real success it's hard to be too outraged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boss_Hogg Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 The blogs, articles, tweets etc. will finally cease once the Skins have a consistent winning product on the field. Till then we'll just have to roll with negative labels, which IMO are warranted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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