The entire plan was months in the making and was thoroughly outlined in a thick black binder that sits on the second shelf of a bookcase in Eric Schaffer’s office. “2011 Free Agency Planning,” it reads along the spine. He’d begun building it in the days after the 2010 season concluded and by late July it was filled with hundreds of pages, detailing free agency targets, statistics, dollar figures.
Washington Redskins: Building a team behind the scenes - The Washington Post