In a city of champions, the Washington Redskins are a hopeless and utter disgrace of a football team. Team president Bruce Allen needs to go yesterday.
When you see #FireBruceAllen on Twitter, you know the Washington Redskins did something absolutely terrible, whether that be in a press conference or on the field of play itself. Today was that day on Twitter, as the Redskins embarrassed themselves at home again, this time losing to the flightless bird that is the New York Jets. In a battle of suck, Washington sank to 1-9 this year.
In a city with the reigning World Series champions, the reigning WNBA Champions and saw its NHL team win a Stanley Cup two years ago, the Washington professional team makes the highly dysfunctional Washington Wizards of the NBA look like a model of consistency and success. Well, the first syllable of success is suck and that is the best way to describe Redskins football. It sucks.
With owner Daniel Snyder basically acting like a trust-fund brat who retired at 30 years old to a life of perpetual booze cruises and frankly, not giving a damn, no wonder the man he has put in charge to run this team has run it into the ground.
Team president Bruce Allen has skated by on who his brother is and who his father was. All this perpetual nepotism has done is arrested the development of this once-proud franchise. Snyder basically gave the keys to a Ferrari to GOB Bluth and told him not to crash it. It’s not a trick, nor is it an illusion, as Allen has driven yet another high-priced sports car into an embankment.
In the decade that Allen has worked for the Washington professional franchise, the Redskins have made the playoffs twice as NFC East champions, only to lose at home on Wild Card weekend both times. Washington hasn’t won a playoff game since the George W. Bush Administration. In the 10 years on the job, Allen has drafted exactly zero All-Pro players. Even John Elway isn’t that bad.
Since beating the Miami Dolphins by a point on Oct. 13, Washington has lost four games in a row. It took the awful Jets to come to town for the Redskins to score one touchdown. They hadn’t found pay dirt in over a month. If you never watched the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, this is what offensive ineptitude looks like. Washington can’t buy a touchdown since firing Jay Gruden.
Yet, the problems continue. And they will continue for as long as Allen has a job with the Redskins. He is as detached from the day-to-day as Snyder is, who can’t even be bothered to show up for work for the organization he owns. All the while, it’s harder for general managers of the other 31 teams in the league to get in contact with Allen than it is to drink water with a plastic fork.
Even though people in the DMV have seen a ton of success with many teams in the last few years, Washington is and always will be a Redskins town. This part of the country deserves so much better than seeing its professional football team resemble the Rutgers Scarlet Knights of the NFC. There is so much wrong with this organization, but Allen has made a mockery of it for too long.