Football Outsiders: Redskins dead last in under-25 talent

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People have to stop acting like the roster that Allen/Shanahan inherited REQUIRED that the team deal four draft picks for Donovan McNabb, Adam Carriker, and Jamaal Brown. Those were choices by the front office based on the options available. Those weren't no-alternative moves.

Now, were those all bad moves? I certainly don't think so. If the 2010 team wins a lot of games, those players will all have a bigger role than the TJ Duckett and Jason Taylor trades brought. And perhaps there's an argument to be made that for a 4-12 team, there was a pretty rare opportunity to "strike while the iron is hot."

I just can't begin to explain how screwed up the logical process would be if we needed to acquire veterans in order to be able to draft more young players in later years. Bottom line: this organization has no interest in being good first and young later.