The Washington franchise reached a watershed moment on New Year’s Eve of 2019, when owner Daniel Snyder, at the end of a 3-13 season that marked two full decades of futility and failure in the NFL, fired then-president Bruce Allen. Almost immediately afterwards, in the dawning hours of 2020, really, Snyder announced and then introduced Ron Rivera, former coach of the Carolina Panthers, as the newest head coach of the Washington Redskins. At that press conference, the owner also announced a move to a “coach-centric” system, where head coach Rivera would have power and responsibility that was unprecedented in modern franchise history.
The Wright man for the right job at the right time
