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I mean, the real shame of the Shanahan excuses is that the Redskins have actually done it right (arguably twice) while Dan Snyder has owned the team. And when Shanahan is doing it so horribly and arrogantly wrong, people are defending it as it being "the right way" to build a team.

First of all, suggesting that there is one right way to build a winning team is a really arrogant line of thinking, and is nothing more than a job security ploy (fire me and you'll be screwed!). Secondly, the Redskins already DID IT A LOT BETTER AND A LOT FASTER than this.

You can argue that Gibbs didn't fix all of the organizational ills, and the fact that he was good at making hires and pretty good at evaluating veteran talent didn't fix everything Snyder had done wrong with the team. You can argue that Gibbs threw away far too many draft picks frivolously to have built a "great" organization in Washington. You'd probably be right.

What you can't argue is that what he did was more successful in the short term. And to be totally honest, it's probably more sustainable than what the Redskins are trying now. That last part is something the jury is still out on. But I definitely hold it to be true.