With Mike Shanahan, Washington Redskins have sensible reasons to be optimistic

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I write this before training camp has opened, and the souring effect of reality sets in. I write it with the knowledge that anyone who predicted success for the Redskins in the last few offseasons wound up at the bottom of the idiot pile. Nevertheless, the Redskins have cause for optimism. Not the fantasy-league optimism of the past based on whopping amounts of poorly spent cash, but optimism based on sense, and reason.

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