Bruce Allen

Is this a good way to go? And I think one of the questions was also, which front offices are the most transparent? And Washington's fair pretty well there.

As you mentioned in the previous iteration, when I first started to do this, whenever there was a negative question about a GM or a front office, Washington was a pat answer for a lot of teams, Bruce Allen in particular.

And now it's almost like the boring is like, yeah, I have no issues with like anybody over there.

Um, whether it's Peters or Brandon Sosnow, who's the cap guy or Lance Newmark, like, you know, there's, there's pretty genuinely good thoughts out there.

But again, it all comes down to the wins.

You actually have to win on the field, not winning off the field like Bruce Allen always liked.

It's actually winning on the field, which is what matters the most to this fan base and everybody else that's there.

It also means an improved defense.

He was with the Redskins for the 2015 through 2019 seasons, serving as offensive line coach, assistant head coach slash offensive line coach, and then interim head coach.

And Bruce Allen.

was senior assistant for the 2002 Raiders.

He was with the Redskins from December 2010 to December 2019, serving as general manager slash executive vice president and then team president.

In fact, Bruce Allen was named the 2002 NFL Executive of the Year by the Sporting News.

Yes, Bruce Allen with the Raiders won NFL Executive of the Year.

It means you're close.

Hello, Bruce.

He said it was so obvious to everybody that Kirk was the quarterback and had to be the starting quarterback.

And I said, yeah, and I remember asking him, but how did you convince Dan? And he said, I convinced Bruce.

And Bruce ended up convincing Dan because he would have lost the locker room before the season ever started.

If he didn't start cousins because it was that obvious.

And Mike used to say the same thing.

They had an opportunity, if they had wanted to, to lock me up in 2015 for sure.

But once I signed that second franchise tag, I was probably gone, in part because he really, really loved Sean.

And he knew that he could get traded to San Francisco, which is what Kyle wanted, but But Dan and Bruce wouldn't trade him to the 49ers because they were Shanahan's and turned down what would have been multiple first-round picks, according to Jay Gruden.

I'll never forget that.

My God, you would've thought the guy was supposed to get picked number one overall with the way Bruce Allen and others were talking about getting Darius Guys late in the second round of that draft.

By the way, J- [laughs] Jay Gruden thought Darius Guys, had he been healthy, had he not been in some trouble, he thought he had superstar talent.

He really did.

And I, and I-

Yeah

... went early with Adam Peters, but I trust his eye for talent more than plum ass Bruce Allen.

So i- if you gotta put the guy out there, he's gonna be sandwiched in between two competent guards that might communicate with him if he ne- needs some help, but he's got two gangsters going up against him week one if he should start, and I don't even know if he's the backup.

And so Paul Kelly is like, I, you know, like, you know, as you know, like there is the, he's like, I have a lot of jobs, but that's not, well, by the way,

so people know Paul Kelly, like started out getting the dry cleaning for like Bruce Allen with the Raiders or something.

And he basically became Mike Shanahan's like right-hand man.

So like when it was cold out, Paul Kelly would go get coats for coaches and like run them out to the field.