The hiring of Allen is different than the return of Gibbs. While Gibbs was a Super Bowl coach he had never proven to be an established personnel man as Bill Parcells did over time.
The problem with the Redskins under Gibbs 2.0 is not that he was not coaching them or preparing them to play, but that the talent level was not where it needed to be. And unfortunately that didn't change for the better over time. The team was always short on depth and younger players that were working on value contracts.
Allen is a more important hire because he then hires both the coach AND the players that will be on the team.
In this regard, the Redskins will become a more functional organization as the coach will have a system and the GM will acquire players to help the coach run that system.
Vinny didn't do that.
We ran a base 4-3 on defense and yet when Philip Daniels went down we didn't replace him with a trade for an established left defensive end strong against the run, but instead traded for a 244 pound, 34 year old player in Jason Taylor who the team asked to switch sides and become a run down DE in the NFC East.
Just one example of where the front office really let the DC down.
What was Blache going to say?
He then had two players in Taylor and Andre Carter that played the same position and nobody to actually replace Daniels!
And Bill Parcells really fleeced Washington on the compensation. A #2 and #6 pick for the 34 year old who had one year left on his contract at $8M?
Geez, the Colts only surrendered a #2 to acquire Anthony McFarland at DT from the Bucs and at 28 he helped Indianapolis win the Super Bowl in 2006. He was injured in 2007 but that could happen to any player.
The fact remains Polian went out and got the player Tony Dungy needed to run HIS system on defense and at a time when the Colts WERE ON THE DOORSTEP OF A SUPER BOWL RUN.
If the Colts were set to be a .500 team at 8-8 in 2006 Polian would not have made that move.
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