Redskins president Bruce Allen spoke highly of fired general manager Scot McCloughan over the weekend, but it appears their relationship was disastrous behind the scenes. McCloughan relayed details of his two-plus-year tenure in Washington to his friend, former NFL fullback Michael Robinson, who passed along that information to FOX Sports 910 in Richmond, Va., on Thursday (via Michael Phillips of the Richmond Times-Dispatch).
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While Allen claims he and McCloughan “had a wonderful relationship,” that wasn’t the case, according to the latter.
“(McCloughan) knew the players loved him, and he started feeling the hate from Bruce Allen right around, well, he’s been feeling it, but when they didn’t let him speak (to reporters) at the Senior Bowl, he said to him that was his last straw, and he knew that he was on his way out,” Robinson stated. “He said it was after a draft meeting, after the combine, Bruce called him up to his office and was just like, ‘Nobody likes you in this building. Nobody wants you here.’ And Scot was like, ‘Well, I guess I’m out of here.'”
After Allen hit McCloughan with the aforementioned gag order during the Senior Bowl, the GM wasn’t present at the scouting combine. The Redskins attributed McCloughan’s absence to the death of his grandmother, but speculation abounded regarding his status with the organization. And when the Redskins fired him shortly after, on March 9, a team official told the Washington Post that McCloughan, who has a history of alcohol abuse, “had multiple relapses” and “showed up in the locker room drunk on multiple occasions.” McCloughan says otherwise.
“He said, ‘Mike, I don’t have an issue right now drinking,'” Robinson revealed. “‘I haven’t touched a drink in a while. But of course they wouldn’t let me say it because they silenced me.'”
It’s possible McCloughan’s next move will be to take legal action against the Redskins, though the two sides could be working on a settlement to avoid litigation, contends Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. And whether McCloughan will land another job in the league is unknown, but it doesn’t seem a return to Seattle, where he worked from 2010-13, is going to happen.
lets see, redskins became relevant again when Scott took over personel and bruce got kicked up stairs. bruce allen doesn’t know squatshit about selecting nfl players.
we as fans get the crapend of the stick.
thanks bruce for being a fakeasssnydersuckup
Well said. Redskins will be back to being dysfunctional and will start losing. What is it with many owners in all sports that pick people who don’t know their own ass to run things. Bulls have Paxon, white sox have Williams, Bears have Pace, and the Browns have Brown for examples. At best these teams have been mediocre to poor.
Kenny Williams had a good run of being in control of player personnel. He did win a world series. He’s sucked since, though.
Too early to call Sashi Brown a bad hire. You can’t fairly judge a hire after one year when the pre-existing talent on the roster isn’t that inspiring. If you want to call it questionable? Sure I might agree, but its too early to call it bad.
Scott is a really good personnel guy, so if he wasn’t drinking it was dumb to let him go
Even if he was drinking it was a bad idea to let him go. First back to back winning seasons ever under Snyder after he took over with that team. Says volumes.
You can’t even get your story right. Michael who?
Bennett or Robinson?
Should’ve said Robinson in the first paragraph. Apologies for the error. Thanks for catching it.
Everyone likes to look back to Kirk’s unfortunate interception against the Giants that ended their season. It was painful to say the least, but it was also obvious that during that entire game, the team played with absolutely no enthusiasm, which made no sense at the time.
In light of recent developments, it now appears that the well had been poisoned before that game was even played. I now suspect the team’s apparent lack of effort may have reflected the back stabbing and disunity going on in the front office.
Cousins will be gone, it is just a matter of time. Will no doubt win a Super Bowl or two for someone else who knows how to run a football team and appreciates a fine quarterback. Thank you, Dan Snyder.
Family court drama
This story sounds like bull. Michael Robinson now has the exclusive? Please. He’s not objective either because he will defend Scot no matter what. Let’s get a report not from the Washington Post, who hate the Redskins, and not from some McCloughan cronies.
Even a blind squirrel finds a chestnut now and then. Kenny specialize in trading way all the young promising pitching and drafting athletic specimens who couldn’t make contact with a bat. Plushe was too prone to take offense and get angry. My favorite Williams trade involved him trading with the Dodgers for a pitcher and winding up with a journeyman outfielder with the same last name by mistake.