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Deadskins wrote:I'd be interested to know why he would have wanted to leave after last year. Was he hoping Kyle would then be named HC? Why would you clean out your office before a home playoff game? If we win, does he move everything back in for a week, and then repeat the process before the game in ATL? Something doesn't jibe with common sense there.
No it can't be, can it …. 
“I’m sure that what went on, owners, management, Bruce Allen, I guess he was probably there too,” Cerrato said. ”They had a lawyer, they probably had whoever the team lawyer is down there and they looked over Shanahan’s contract to see if there’s any way out. My guess is, every ‘T’ is crossed, every ‘I’ is dotted. So my guess is it’s pretty iron clad. Because if they had a way of getting out of the contract, he’d be gone. So there’s no way to get him out.
“So Mike comes Monday and basically says, ‘You guys have until Wednesday, then I’m gonna bench RGIII.’ And then Wednesday comes and Dan says, ‘Go ahead.’”
Cerrato also seemed to think that Shanahan was going to win the stalemate, unless Snyder finds an out.
Kilmer72 wrote:“I’m sure that what went on, owners, management, Bruce Allen, I guess he was probably there too,” Cerrato said. ”They had a lawyer, they probably had whoever the team lawyer is down there and they looked over Shanahan’s contract to see if there’s any way out. My guess is, every ‘T’ is crossed, every ‘I’ is dotted. So my guess is it’s pretty iron clad. Because if they had a way of getting out of the contract, he’d be gone. So there’s no way to get him out.
“So Mike comes Monday and basically says, ‘You guys have until Wednesday, then I’m gonna bench RGIII.’ And then Wednesday comes and Dan says, ‘Go ahead.’”
Cerrato also seemed to think that Shanahan was going to win the stalemate, unless Snyder finds an out.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc- ... successor/
I know it is Vinny and all but this is what I was thinking and makes most sense.
and Vinny has so much credibility - especially with this club and Dan Snyder PulpExposure wrote:I think this is brilliant by Shanahan. He's completely shifted the conversation to be about RG3, RG3's "special relationship" with Snyder, and how it undercuts the team. It's all about how that's why this team is failing.
No longer do we have to hear about a defense that has given up more points than any other team in the NFL this year, or a special teams unit that is the worst I can ever remember seeing. We don't have to hear about Haslett, or Keith Burns, or any other coaching hire made by Shanahan (like Bob Slowik, coaching the linebackers...a kinda important job in the 3-4...even though he's never coached linebackers in the NFL before). No worries.
The team is 3-10 because of RG3 and Snyder. That is all.
Irn-Bru wrote:Does Shanahan have any story you can call to our attention that can compete with that level of dishonesty? I don't have one. So yes, I do cut him a little more slack right now and don't assume the worst: I don't assume he must be the leak, I don't assume his benching Griffin is some kind of "all in" poker play, etc. It's too easy to turn on Shanahan because he's been unsuccessful this year and is likely out the door in a few weeks. I am open to being corrected, but I just don't see the rat everyone keeps talking about.
SkinsJock wrote::lol: and Vinny has so much credibility - especially with this club and Dan Snyder
StorminMormon86 wrote:Listening to 980 AM, virtually everyone is in agreement that Shanahan is gone next year. But I don't know...the way he recently talked at the press conference on Wednesday makes me think he wants to stay here, and by going to Snyder and Allen in talks of shutting down Griffin, that makes me think he's interested in staying here with a healthy Griffin next year.
Oh! Yes.welch wrote:RIP, Shirley Povich! We miss your insight!
“You play your starting quarterback, that’s been Robert,” Kyle Shanahan told reporters on Thursday. “I’m pretty disappointed we don’t get to play with him. But it is what it is, and I’m gonna deal with the cards I’ve been dealt.”
“I definitely made it clear I was disappointed in that. . . . I think it would be good for Robert to get the reps,” Kyle Shanahan said.
“It’s kind of tough to put him into this situation right now and hope for him to be excellent,” Moss said, via Mike Jones of the Washington Post. “It’s almost like setting a guy up for failure.
riggofan wrote:PulpExposure wrote:I think this is brilliant by Shanahan. He's completely shifted the conversation to be about RG3, RG3's "special relationship" with Snyder, and how it undercuts the team. It's all about how that's why this team is failing.
No longer do we have to hear about a defense that has given up more points than any other team in the NFL this year, or a special teams unit that is the worst I can ever remember seeing. We don't have to hear about Haslett, or Keith Burns, or any other coaching hire made by Shanahan (like Bob Slowik, coaching the linebackers...a kinda important job in the 3-4...even though he's never coached linebackers in the NFL before). No worries.
The team is 3-10 because of RG3 and Snyder. That is all.
Nailed it.
Kilmer72 wrote:“You play your starting quarterback, that’s been Robert,” Kyle Shanahan told reporters on Thursday. “I’m pretty disappointed we don’t get to play with him. But it is what it is, and I’m gonna deal with the cards I’ve been dealt.”
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... n-griffin/“I definitely made it clear I was disappointed in that. . . . I think it would be good for Robert to get the reps,” Kyle Shanahan said.
Deadskins wrote:Kilmer72 wrote:“You play your starting quarterback, that’s been Robert,” Kyle Shanahan told reporters on Thursday. “I’m pretty disappointed we don’t get to play with him. But it is what it is, and I’m gonna deal with the cards I’ve been dealt.”
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... n-griffin/“I definitely made it clear I was disappointed in that. . . . I think it would be good for Robert to get the reps,” Kyle Shanahan said.
Deadskins wrote:Kilmer72 wrote:“You play your starting quarterback, that’s been Robert,” Kyle Shanahan told reporters on Thursday. “I’m pretty disappointed we don’t get to play with him. But it is what it is, and I’m gonna deal with the cards I’ve been dealt.”
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... n-griffin/“I definitely made it clear I was disappointed in that. . . . I think it would be good for Robert to get the reps,” Kyle Shanahan said.
Deadskins wrote:SkinsJock wrote::lol: and Vinny has so much credibility - especially with this club and Dan Snyder
Actually Vinny probably knows the Danny better than most.
Father son rift! O well.. couldn't hurt at this point. Probably is the ACTUAL root of this whole mess... #firemike
Mike walks on water and Kyle can't run an offense and Robert sucks. I blame all this on Snyder. It must be his fault. 
SkinsJock wrote:Deadskins wrote:SkinsJock wrote::lol: and Vinny has so much credibility - especially with this club and Dan Snyder
Actually Vinny probably knows the Danny better than most.
OK - but he has zero credibility with me - maybe you feel differently
cowboykillerzRGiii wrote:Father son rift! O well.. couldn't hurt at this point. Probably is the ACTUAL root of this whole mess... #firemike