Redskins free agent signings 2018

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Originally Posted by DYoungJelly

I would have liked to see Shanahan as a coach only and BA as the GM.

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I believe people forget when MS had full control our salary allocation pretty much neglected the defense.

The spending was totally weighted toward the offense. I couldn't find a link from the Shanny era but below is the current situation.

overthecap.com/salary-cap/washington-redskins/

Right now we are offense heavy but it is not crazy out of whack. Only a 20m differential.

I don't know about spending, but it was reflected in our net points.
In Shanahan's 4 years, our net points were: -75, -79, 48(RG3 title year), -144
Gruden's first year: -137
Gruden's remaining years:9(KC's title year), 13, -46 (this year but I think injuries added in to that, the DL looked alot better when Allen/Ionnaidis were on the line rotation)

So the discrepancy that Shanahan was creating on defense definitely showed up in the stats.

Also, I think people forget how the bogus salary cap penalty killed our depth. We still signed paid higher priced stars but lost out on quality depth guys.

Admittedly, I have a knee jerk reaction to moves and inaction but i am fine with the way the roster, and in particular the draft has been handled.

I pointed this out in other threads, but this FO has been very good with the draft, both in terms of quantity of picks and quality of players.

2010 - 1 player still in NFL (TW)
2011 - 4 players
2012 - 6 of 9
2013 - 4 of 7
2014 - 5 or 8
2015 - 7 of 10
2016 - 7 of 7
2017 - 10 of 10 (more important is the quantity since we know some of these guys, like Samaje Perine for example, may not last)

I took these from Pro football reference.com's draft lists. That is really good talent scouting and drafting.