Top 10 Bruce Allen Quotes

Bruce Allen
(President of Washington Redskins)

Bruce Allen is the team president of the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). Previously, Allen served as general manager for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2004–2008) and Redskins (2010–2014). He got his NFL start as a senior executive with the Oakland Raiders (1996–2003)
Allen is the son of Hall of Fame head coach George Allen and brother of former Virginia governor and Senator George Allen. Allen attended high school at Langley High School in McLean, Virginia and went on to the University of Richmond, where he played football for the Spiders in the 1974–1977 seasons. In his junior season, he ranked 16th nationally and broke the school record for punting, averaging 42.9 yards a kick; those numbers resulted in him being named to that year's All-ECAC and All-South Independent teams. In 1978, he was drafted in the 12th round by the Baltimore Colts. In July 1979, at the age of 22, Allen was hired as the head football coach at Occidental College, a small NCAA Division III school in Los Angeles.
In the early 1990s, Allen was a lead agent for Paradise Sports, in Phoenix, Arizona. He represented many professional football players during his tenure there.

Top 10 Bruce Allen Quotes

We've made some decisions. But it wouldn't appropriate to say anything until we have to.

We feel he'll be a great fit for our team, ... He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. It gives us some great insurance and a feeling that we can sleep at night that we have a bona fide NFL starter.

Michael had one of his best years in many ways, although the fumbles were a great negative to the team. He took it quite personally, and he's done a very good job of working on everything this offseason.

We will be salary cap compliant whenever the deadline is.

The league moved the deadline back 72 hours so it allows teams and players more time to work with the last capped year calculations and that is what we have been doing (Thursday) and will continue to do this weekend.

I'm looking forward to talking to Mike. I'm hoping for a positive outcome.

He's worked very, very hard to rehabilitate himself from a devastating injury and I don't think it's the last of Charlie Garner. He's too much of a competitor to end his career like this,

We have met with Torrie Cox regarding the seriousness of these charges. We will continue to closely monitor this situation and cooperate with the investigation completely.

We hope to have Chris and Brian next season. We would not have won the division without either one of them. 

He wanted to be a Buccaneer, and we want him to be a Buccaneer. In just a few days of conversations, we were able to reach an agreement with him, and it cleared up room so that we can sign some of our own players back and go out into free agency. 

On December 17, 2009, the Washington Redskins announced that they had hired Allen as their general manager shortly after executive vice president of football operations Vinny Cerrato resigned. Allen's father coached the Redskins to its first Super Bowl appearance in 1972. Shortly after Allen joined the Redskins, Jim Zorn and his staff were fired, allowing Mike Shanahan to be hired as head coach and executive vice president of football operations. While Shanahan had the final say in football decisions, he and Allen split the duties of general manager, working in an arrangement similar to how Bill Belichick and Scott Pioli operated in New England.
Allen's "I-4 Off Ramp" was a creative method to use up cap space in a time when salary cap spending was a CBA requirement plus make it easy to release or trade a player later in his career. The League had "advised" all franchises to not explicitly use the 2010 uncapped season as a method to create cap room in the future when the salary cap returned. Allen and Shanahan failed to heed the warnings of the league and used the "I-4 off Ramp" on two overpaid players signed by the former regime. As a result, Washington would suffer a $36 million salary cap penalty split between the 2012 and 2013 seasons.
After Shanahan was fired after the disastrous 2013 season, Allen took over his role and assumed final say on the roster and football operations. The search for the next head coach included interviews with Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell, Carolina Panthers defensive coordinator Sean McDermott, and Dallas Cowboys special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia, along with planned interviews with various others. On January 9, 2014, Allen's head coaching search ended when Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator Jay Gruden was hired as the new head coach, succeeding Mike Shanahan.
While general manager, Allen attempted to bridge the connection between the modern Redskins and the glory years of past, include hosting golf tournaments with former players and coaches, to bringing back the gold pants that his father's team had used during the 1970s. On May 26, 2014, Allen was officially given the title of "President" by owner Daniel Snyder. Allen had previously used the title some days before in a letter to US Senator Harry Reid regarding the Redskins name controversy. Allen abdicated his title of general manager after the Redskins hired Scot McCloughan to be their general manager on January 7, 2015.