A new report from Jason Reid of the Washington Post alleges that Jay Gruden could be "one and done" as the head football coach of the Washington Redskins due to his desire to jettison quarterback Robert Griffin III in the offseason - a desire that apparently sets him at odds with general manager Bruce Allen and team owner Dan Snyder.
Late last week, battle lines were drawn between the coaching staff and senior management at Redskins Park after multiple team employees revealed Gruden is done with Griffin, as much because of the 24-year-old's spotlight-craving antics as his shortcomings in the pocket.
It was assumed by many in the media that, as Griffin continued to fail and word began to spread that he was no longer the apple of Gruden's quarterbacking eye, the rest of the organization was or would jump on board with his assessment and find a way to move forward with Gruden and potentially without Griffin.
Although it's unknown whether Snyder and Allen eventually will agree to trade Griffin, what has become clear from recent conversations with Redskins officials is that Gruden believes he needs a clean break from Griffin to focus on fixing Washington's 3-9 mess.
Now, according to Reid's report, it sounds like Gruden's issues with Griffin may just put him in such a severely adversarial position to his GM and owner, that he could find himself looking for a new job by season's end.
And if Snyder and Allen commit to Griffin as the starter in 2015, Gruden could be "one and done," a team official said, alluding to Gruden possibly being fired despite four years remaining on his guaranteed five-year contract.
Snyder has apparently accepted that Griffin should not remain the starter this season, but refuses to give up long-term on the quarterback he surrendered an absolute bounty to select number two overall in the draft - a decision supposedly pushed by Allen but questioned by former head coach, Mike Shanahan.
Allen, after working with Gruden in Tampa Bay, hand-selected him to be the guy to fix Griffin and the mess that currently is the Washington Redskins football team.
But now that the two have seemingly opposite agendas where Griffin is concerned, the future of their relationship - and Gruden's coaching legacy in Washington - seems much, much murkier.
