Steve Spurrier discusses dysfunction during his days in Washington

Washington owner Daniel Snyder and team president Bruce Allen are big fans of Robert Griffin III. Head coach Jay Gruden is not. In years past, what Snyder and Allen wanted when it came to personnel won out. This season, so far, Gruden has, and it is Kirk Cousins, not Griffin, who has been the starter for Washington.

Current South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier knows all too well how things can go in Washington after a two-year stint as head coach.

Spurrier was on the David Feherty’s Golf Channel show this month and of course discussed golf, but also football and his time with Washington.

Feherty asked Spurrier if he would have done anything differently during his relatively brief tenure with the club, and Spurrier alluded to the issues that have plagued the team during Snyder’s tenure as owner.

“I don’t know what I could have done that much differently,” Spurrier said. “You know, I don’t want to get into a lot of details, but basically the two years that I was there, the second year we didn’t even pick the team. The owner and the personnel guy, whoever, the personnel guys, they picked the team. I couldn’t even pick the quarterback the second year. So I knew it wasn’t going to work, but that’s ok. I probably didn’t do a very good job, and the situation wasn’t what I was looking for, so it was time to move on.”

The interview was taped before the current season began and therefore before Washington’s current quarterback drama. But in 2003, Spurrier’s second and final season with the team, he named Patrick Ramsey as starting quarterback; according to the Washington Post, Spurrier wanted Danny Wuerffel as Ramsey’s backup. But the team had signed Rob Johnson to a free-agent deal that offseason, and though Spurrier and Johnson didn’t mesh, Snyder sided with then-GM Vinny Cerrato and the team cut Wuerffel out of training camp and kept Johnson.

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During the bye week, Spurrier cut Johnson and said Snyder would allow Wuerffel to come back, but Wuerffel rejected the offer. The Post said Wuerffel was still upset over how he’d been treated.

Spurrier reminded Feherty that he was not fired in Washington, but rather walked away from “a bunch of money” since, as he’d said earlier, the situation wasn’t what he was looking for.

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