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LOVERRO: Gruden’s optimism feels a little forced

ANALYSIS/OPINION

Uh oh. Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden may be getting Bruce Allen disease.

“We have a lot of reasons for excitement around here,” he told reporters at the NFL meetings in Phoenix. “Don’t know why everyone is so doom-and-gloom around here.”

I don’t know, maybe because this franchise hired a general manager two years ago to diffuse the damage that Bruce “We’re-Winning-Off-the-Field” Allen had done? A general manager who was unhireable after personal problems drove him from San Francisco and Seattle, and then, when to no one’s surprise, it didn’t work, clumsily turned his firing into a public execution?