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They promoted several people in the organization, with the most prominent being Doug Williams to senior vice president of personnel. What they didn't do was name a general manager, instead changing titles for others to fill various roles.
It left Williams as the third-highest ranking member of the organization, behind owner Dan Snyder and president Bruce Allen. Eric Schaffer, who has been their chief negotiator the past 10 years, becomes senior vice president of football operations and general counsel. Kyle Smith, son of former NFL general manager A.J. Smith, replaced Scott Campbell as the director of college scouting, with the latter becoming a senior personnel executive.
The Redskins fired general manager Scot McCloughan in March. Allen said they met with at least a dozen people outside the organization and still might hire someone, but most likely as area scouts.
Williams has been a senior personnel executive since rejoining the organization in 2014. He was a personnel executive from 2004-08 in Tampa Bay when Allen was the Buccaneers' general manager.
"I don't think by me knowing Bruce had the impact as much as the plan and the trust that he had in me," said Williams, who helped the Redskins win a Super Bowl after the 1987 season.
The question that has long been asked involves who has the power. McCloughan was said to have control over the 53-man roster, but coach Jay Gruden had heavy input in that area as well.
"That'll be the same," Allen said. "It's going to be a Redskins decision. No different than how we did free agency, no different than how we did the draft. Coach Gruden has influence, Doug will have influence and between them they ought to be able to work it out. And, yes, I will be involved."
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Going Against The Grind
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Baseball. Man, such a brutal game. Such a mean game. Sadistic, really, the way it runs itself up under your skin and makes you miserable. Hang around a baseball clubhouse and you'll start to wonder why anyone plays the damned thing. Sometimes it seems everybody in the game wakes up each morning trying to decide whether to be angry or bitter. Fittingly, the ballplayer's favorite word is grind, as if coursing through 162 games is the sporting equivalent of an 18th-century polar expedition. Even good moments are dismissed as untrustworthy, because if ballplayers know one thing about the grind -- this joyless, painful six-month scrape of hard surface against hard surface -- it is its infinite capacity to humble them.
Maybe that's why they work so hard to create the illusion of frivolity. The visiting clubhouse in Detroit, to take one example, has a table with cartons of Dubble Bubble (three flavors), trays of Jolly Ranchers and Life Savers and Big Red and Tootsie Pops and Blow Pops and three kinds of protein bars, twist-top dispensers of Gummi Bears, peanuts, caramels and Reese's Pieces, buckets of sunflower seeds in three different-sized bags.
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John KeimESPN Staff Writer
They promoted several people in the organization, with the most prominent being Doug Williams to senior vice president of personnel. What they didn't do was name a general manager, instead changing titles for others to fill various roles.
It left Williams as the third-highest ranking member of the organization, behind owner Dan Snyder and president Bruce Allen. Eric Schaffer, who has been their chief negotiator the past 10 years, becomes senior vice president of football operations and general counsel. Kyle Smith, son of former NFL general manager A.J. Smith, replaced Scott Campbell as the director of college scouting, with the latter becoming a senior personnel executive.
The Redskins fired general manager Scot McCloughan in March. Allen said they met with at least a dozen people outside the organization and still might hire someone, but most likely as area scouts.
Williams has been a senior personnel executive since rejoining the organization in 2014. He was a personnel executive from 2004-08 in Tampa Bay when Allen was the Buccaneers' general manager.
"I don't think by me knowing Bruce had the impact as much as the plan and the trust that he had in me," said Williams, who helped the Redskins win a Super Bowl after the 1987 season.
The question that has long been asked involves who has the power. McCloughan was said to have control over the 53-man roster, but coach Jay Gruden had heavy input in that area as well.
"That'll be the same," Allen said. "It's going to be a Redskins decision. No different than how we did free agency, no different than how we did the draft. Coach Gruden has influence, Doug will have influence and between them they ought to be able to work it out. And, yes, I will be involved."
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Tim KeownESPN Senior Writer
Baseball. Man, such a brutal game. Such a mean game. Sadistic, really, the way it runs itself up under your skin and makes you miserable. Hang around a baseball clubhouse and you'll start to wonder why anyone plays the damned thing. Sometimes it seems everybody in the game wakes up each morning trying to decide whether to be angry or bitter. Fittingly, the ballplayer's favorite word is grind, as if coursing through 162 games is the sporting equivalent of an 18th-century polar expedition. Even good moments are dismissed as untrustworthy, because if ballplayers know one thing about the grind -- this joyless, painful six-month scrape of hard surface against hard surface -- it is its infinite capacity to humble them.
Maybe that's why they work so hard to create the illusion of frivolity. The visiting clubhouse in Detroit, to take one example, has a table with cartons of Dubble Bubble (three flavors), trays of Jolly Ranchers and Life Savers and Big Red and Tootsie Pops and Blow Pops and three kinds of protein bars, twist-top dispensers of Gummi Bears, peanuts, caramels and Reese's Pieces, buckets of sunflower seeds in three different-sized bags.
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