The Washington Redskins have been the football equivalent of Murphy's Law: almost everything that can go wrong has gone wrong.
It could be getting worse (or better, depending on your perspective).
Jeff Risdon of Real GM speculates that head coach Jay Gruden could jump this sinking ship.
"One source I trust tipped me off to a potential landing spot for Gruden: The University of Michigan," Risdon wrote. "This source, who is intimately familiar with the Wolverines' rapidly emerging coaching search, informed me on Thursday that initial contact has been made between the parties and that Gruden's representation was enthusiastically open to the potential. I can't put a figure on the likelihood of Gruden fleeing to Ann Arbor, and another UM source I trust refused to confirm anything I asked, but it's an interesting leverage point nonetheless."
The bottom line is that the Redskins are just not an attractive destination for coaches. The team is owned by a man who can't help but meddle in football affairs while dividing the locker room by giving preferential treatment to certain players. The man in charge of football operations, Bruce Allen, has never been a top personnel decision maker at the NFL level until he came to D.C. He's failed to construct a winning roster due to poor prospect evaluations, a lack of draft picks, salary cap restrictions and head-scratching free agent decisions. The quarterback situation is a mess with former savior Robert Griffin III reduced to a sulking statue on the sideline.
It's understandable that Gruden would seek out greener pastures. The Redskins seem to be the only team in the NFL that runs purely on chaos and dysfunction.
"It's hard to blame anyone from wanting out of Washington," Risdon wrote. "From the carousel of coaches, overpriced free agents, bad draft choices, chronic holt at safety, manipulative quarterback, intensively critical media and poor playing surface at their nondescript stadium...it's just a giant cluster of negativity. Expect yet more radical changes in the near future."
