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The Redskins finished last season with a team full of holes.
Not all would be fixed in one offseason despite what Allen, Gruden and others publicly said about the pressure to win now.
That seemed obvious to a lot of us.
What the Redskins have done so far in free agency and the draft to me indicates the team wants to be more competitive right away but knows truly being in a position to win big is a ways off.
The selection of Haskins underscores that point. This kid has all the talent and character to be successful in the NFL. But it isn't going to come together tomorrow afternoon.
It's going to take coaching and test the ability of Gruden to deliver on his original selling point here of being a guy that works well with quarterbacks.
I am pleased we did not trade for Flacco and go for a quick fix this time.
In addition to Haskins the team has been able to add potential high impact players in Landon Collins, Montez Sweat and Reuben Foster.
When was the last time you can say the team came away with 4 impact players in the offseason the oldest of which is 26?
This is all before we see what the team does with the remaining seven picks.
For those that want OL depth and a young corner to groom I point to our third round picks as well as the chance to add a veteran OG in secondary free agency.
Make no mistake, taking a LB at 15 and ignoring the qb position for yet another year in re securing the future would have been a mistake.
So far so good.
Let's see what this coaching staff now does with some additional pieces.
The scrutiny will now largely be on them.
Not all would be fixed in one offseason despite what Allen, Gruden and others publicly said about the pressure to win now.
That seemed obvious to a lot of us.
What the Redskins have done so far in free agency and the draft to me indicates the team wants to be more competitive right away but knows truly being in a position to win big is a ways off.
The selection of Haskins underscores that point. This kid has all the talent and character to be successful in the NFL. But it isn't going to come together tomorrow afternoon.
It's going to take coaching and test the ability of Gruden to deliver on his original selling point here of being a guy that works well with quarterbacks.
I am pleased we did not trade for Flacco and go for a quick fix this time.
In addition to Haskins the team has been able to add potential high impact players in Landon Collins, Montez Sweat and Reuben Foster.
When was the last time you can say the team came away with 4 impact players in the offseason the oldest of which is 26?
This is all before we see what the team does with the remaining seven picks.
For those that want OL depth and a young corner to groom I point to our third round picks as well as the chance to add a veteran OG in secondary free agency.
Make no mistake, taking a LB at 15 and ignoring the qb position for yet another year in re securing the future would have been a mistake.
So far so good.
Let's see what this coaching staff now does with some additional pieces.
The scrutiny will now largely be on them.
