We have all heard the old saying “Fortune favors the bold”.

Well, if there is one word we can use to describe the move made by Mike Shanahan, Bruce Allen, Dan Synder and the whole Washington Redskins franchise yesterday it is “bold”.

Oh sure, there are a lot of other things it could and has been called in the last few hours. Things like “too much”, “desperate” and “a huge mistake”. But those who use those descriptors admit, at least most of them, that this move was...