If Washington Redskins fans were to make a list at the start of the season of things they’d like to see happen in order to change the losing culture, it would likely go as follows:
- #FireBruceAllen
- Fire Jay Gruden
- Get rid of the medical training staff
Two of those boxes have been checked off, and the third is reportedly close to happening as well. According to NBC Sports Washington’s JP Finlay, the major upheaval in the Redskins organization on Monday could reach all the way to the training room, where head trainer Larry Hess could find his job at stake.
The Redskins have had a muddled injury history over the past several years, and they finished this season with 24 players on the injured reserve list. They’ve also been gifted much of the blame regarding left tackle Trent Williams, who claims that they severely misdiagnosed a tumor on his scalp that ended up being cancerous. According to Williams’ side of the story, the medical staff had been monitoring the growth for six years while telling him that it was nothing to worry about. Williams had the cancerous growth removed earlier this year, and he has been holding out from the team ever since.
With a new GM likely to be named, and a new coach on his way to Ashburn, it seems fitting that new medical staff could be implemented as well. All of these injuries over the past few years can’t be the result of coincidence. A change was needed at the top of the Redskins organization, and it happened on Monday morning. Now it’s time for that change to trickle on down to the medical staff as well.
