When your team has been down in the dumps for as long as the Washington Redskins, it’s easy for the fan base to deflect blame onto certain people in the organization. For the past decade, it’s been mainly Bruce Allen who shoulders the load, but Jay Gruden also caught a lot of flack, as did Dan Snyder and a few others.
During the 2019 season, after Gruden was finally removed from his post as head coach, the overarching blame shifted to defensive coordinator Greg Manusky, who was failing with a talented defense week after week, unable to keep an unproductive offense in the game. Now that Manusky has been fired alongside much of the old regime, and Jack Del Rio has replaced him as the new DC, it’s time to let go of that ill-will, and move on.
Maybe Del Rio is trying to unite the fanbase and buy into the new regime. Maybe he is also quote tweeting this article to remind everyone how truly terrible Manusky really was. It’s probably the former, but there may be a bit of the latter sprinkled in there too. Whichever it is, a new day is on the horizon, and it’s been made clear that in order to fully embrace the new regime, getting rid of the old one is paramount.
