Dryer said he saw CR and Rosenbloom said to him, "I'm going to fire that nut." As Allen was different and Rosenbloom did indeed fire a hall of fame coach after just two preseason games, imagine that today? Dryer also spoke well of Ray Malavasi saying "Under Knox, he always played it the same way in post season as the regular season and teams knew what exactly we were going to do, under Ray, we knew he would try different things in the playoffs and that helped upsetting Dallas in 1979.
It will always bother me that Carroll Rosenbloom didn't follow his gut replacing Knox with Bill Walsh and went with Allen instead, but his son Steve & even Klosterman thought Allen was a winner, although he had a worst post season record then Knox overall. The hang up with Walsh was Walsh wanted to be GM too, however, Walsh would have taken the job and of course I will always feel "What could've been?"
