Jay Gruden Fired as Redskins Head Coach

It’s clear that something has to change,” Peterson told the Post. “That’s one thing you do know, because we are 0-5. We haven’t won. We haven’t been productive as an offense.” He added: “You got to go back to the drawing board and say, ‘Okay, as a coaching staff…what can we do better to put our players in better position to be productive as an offense, to be better as a defense?’ It’s their job to do that. We 0-5. What we’ve been doing, obviously, isn’t working.”

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Obviously, Gruden was losing his team, and the Redskins brass chose to move on then let it continue to fester in the locker room. When asked after the Patriots game Gruden’s response, “If the key works on Monday, I’ll keep working,” according to The Washington Post. I guess his key didn’t work.

Gruden’s Tenure

Washington tabbed Gruden as head coach in 2014 after a successful stint as offensive coordinator under Marvin Lewis in Cincinnati. The hire of Gruden was in hopes of reigniting young franchise quarterback Robert Griffin’s young career. Griffin was a lost cause. Gruden then turned things over to back Kirk Cousins for the remainder of 2014. He then named Cousins the starter in 2015. The Redskins would go on to a 9-7 turnaround and look like an up and coming team with Gruden and Cousins leading the way. It was not to be, Cousins and Gruden’s relationship fizzled quickly as the head coach felt he would never win big with Cousins at the helm. Gruden and Cousins battled each other and mediocrity for the next three years before Cousins left in free agency to Minnesota.

He was then given Alex Smith in a trade with the Chiefs and had one more mediocre season before losing Smith to a gruesome leg injury. This year brought Case Keenum and young phenom Dwayne Haskins from Ohio State. Rumors began to surface that Gruden and the coaching staff never wanted Haskins, and the front office chose him regardless. News like that usually is the beginning of the end for a head coach. It also didn’t help that last week, a video of Gruden smoking weed and hitting on some young women popped up on social media. The smear campaign had begun.

Gruden was Mediocre at Best

In the end, Gruden was 35-49 as head coach and had lost his team. He was o-5 and arguing with the front office and ownership about who to play. He chose to play Colt McCoy over the prized rookie and got his butt handed to him by the Patriots. All of this plus the video surfacing to add a little spice clearly showed the Redskins wanted him out. It was a matter of when and the loss yesterday sealed the deal. Jay Gruden is fired and now its time for the who is the next sexy name to hire articles to flood Washington.

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