Redskins drafts-A historical problem

Interesting article and I wish we drafted better. Nevertheless, you can get good players both from the draft AND free agency. And although we've overpaid and overspent this offseason, I think Snyder's attitude has still changed from the days of Bruce Smith and Deon Sanders. Seems like when we overpay for free agents, they are much younger. I don't mind at all if we sign someone that is good and 25 years old.

After all, we've seen how difficult it is to eval draft picks - even early first rounders are often either busts, get hurt or get into off-field issues. Getting young and PROVEN free agents is probably better value than draft picks. How many first rounders would we have to have to find a Haynesworth? For example, BJ Raji may be good, but will he develop into an AH? Not likely. Ryan Leaf, Vince Young, Mike Williams, etc etc. show us how wrong teams usually are.

Obviously, the problem is finding cap room with this strategy, but we've somehow figured out how to do it. And if there's a no-cap year, doesn't that allow us to pay all the prorated guaranteed bonuses up front and free up a ton of cap space for years to come?

Well, I guess we really shouldn't be up in arms about the FO then, huh? It's pretty much status quo. :)

Well, it's not entirely "status quo." The Redskins' draft that the article highlights preceded a decade a winning teams. And while that particular draft (May, Grimm, Manley, Grant, Brown and Didier) was not solely responsible for the success, it went a long way toward helping. So, there is SOME evidence of the organization's use of the draft to build a foundation.