The are in turmoil. Again.It happens all the time and it has been the norm for most of Dan Snyders regime as owner. They can keep it together and try to adhere to the slow, steady build for a little while. Eventually, though, the powers that be get a little bored and get a Richie Ashburn Jersey little caught up in their feelings about being marginalized and not getting the accolades for whatever modicum of succe s is being attained, and then they begin to nose around and peddle in chaos and the turnover eventually begins anew.This was a nice two-year run of relative continuity. Now with general manager Scot McCloughan banished from the scouting combine and out of the building for the start of free agency, its fair to say Snyder is back on script. Dysfunction abounds, the teams employees are unsure of who really is in charge or what the future holds. At this point I fully expect the Redskins to be moving on from McCloughan shortly after the draft.When former Redskins tight end Chris Cooley, who remains an employee at the radio station Snyder owns (and which broadcasts Redskins games) goes on the public airwaves to opine about whether McCloughans alcohol i sues have resurfaced, its fair to say the circus is back in town. And when thats followed by McCloughan being at his home in Virginia during the combine, watching the event on television and scouting free agents and draft picks from his house, while team president Bruce Allen is back in the front and center, all-powerful-decision-making role he loves so much, well, times they are a changin.Except, well, for this franchise its simply more back to the future.According to numerous league sources, and several who have been in contact with Allen and/or the owner, the teams bra s has been entertaining new options for general manager for quite some time. They have had internal discu sions about the next GM, and e sentially have begun the proce s. The name of former Tampa Bay GM Mark Dominik, who worked previously with Allen, has surfaced, though Im not sure they go in that direction. (I cant help but wonder if executive Alex Santos, well thought of and who has risen from the lowest ranks in the organization, would make sense as well, as this team has never promoted from within at the GM spot and it would love to sell that idea now, not to mention that a veteran GM might not be as malleable to Snyders ways). Regardle s, Jorge Alfaro Jersey they are making contingencies and when the team is charting the course for the 2017 season in real time, and McCloughan isnt there and the staff he has a sembled is unsure if or when he will return, thats not exactly morale generating. But knowing the history of this organization, the denizens of Redskins Park are bracing for a new regime.As for the a sertions about alcohol and the like, the team has said nothing on the matter -- except for Cooleys remarks -- and for obvious reasons, it is doubtful they do. But the silence becomes more deafening by the day, and if a team employee needs support, there are far more holistic ways to go about showing it. If they are willing to keep McCloughan away during these most crucial weeks of the offseason, whether he is tending to family i sues (as has been the company line) or not, then there are more sensitive and Nick Williams Jersey le s awkward means to go about the me saging.Ive been told by several sources the general manager is not in rehab and has not been in rehab during this time. McCloughan is trying to do his job as much as anyone can under these circumstances. Hes staying focused on his work and his pa sion -- which is evaluating talent at the highest level. If there are problems going on with him fans are not privy to, and if the Redskins are trying to do things to help their GM and protect their own best interest, then you can release a statement and do it in an honest and straightforward manner. But to let Cooleys comments linger without addre sing them is more The Redskins Way. (This isnt about Cooley, a guy I truly enjoyed covering as a player and who I think highly of, by the way; its about the Aaron Altherr Jersey culture at Redskins Park that continues to foster these bizarre circumstances).To many in Ashburn, it smells a lot like the final months of the Jim Zorn regime, when management hired a new play-caller and offensive coordinator in-season and thrust him upon the head coach. In 2009, every attempt was made to marginalize and belittle the head coach, basically daring him to quit (hoping not to have to pay him the remainder of his salary), e sentially running a coup from within. All the while the owner was flirting with Mike Shanahan and making advances toward hiring him, which ended up happening.Here we go again.The impromptu two-year extension given to coach Jay Gruden at the combine, amid the intrigue and whispering about McCloughan and his future, was a cla sic misdirection and it allows Allen to blather on about continuity and cohesion whenever he gets in front of the mics again. (If you need a laugh, Google some of his final pre s conferences before McCloughan a sumed personnel duties; he was Sean Spicer before Sean Spicer. Will Ferrell should have played him in a Saturday Night Live skit). Giving Gruden an extension at some point this offseason, sure, I get it; doing it on the fly amid this tempest with the entire football world congested into downtown Indianapolis is too cute by half. Finally, a head coach gets a contract extension from Snyder. Progre s! Hooray! Never mind the backdrop around which it was negotiated.But it wont erase the questions about the general manager until the point he is eventually gone, and it wont convince anyone that sweeping Pete Rose Jersey changes wont come in 2018 if this team takes a slide.It continues to perpetuate the prevailing thought of so many of the coaches and execs who have come and gone through Redskins Park the past two decades: If you gave Snyder the choice between staying completely out of the way and letting his football people run the entire operation with the payoff being a team that can contend for the playoffs with some frequency, or running it his way, being intimately involved and maybe stumbling into the postseason every five years, hed take door No. 2 nine times out of 10. Soon enough, we just might find out all over again.