Shanahan: Williams is a natural for zone-blocking scheme

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Originally Posted by SirClintonPortis

And to think a significant portion of Redskins fans were perfectly content to just go ahead draft a QB on the HOPE that Shanahan would pull some magic trick out of his hat for the bunch of mediocre or bad players we had kept over from the past year and develop them into a Chris Samuels caliber players. I'm so happy that they have had the mental snot knocked out of them with the T. Williams pick and the Jammal Brown trade. Sometimes you gotta spend big to get big talent. No more cheapskate Vinny philosophy to building an Oline.

And I'm glad Shanny has once again hit on his talent evaluation.

What we have here is a case of immediate gratification. You could very well end up being right but you're judging the entire direction of a franchise based on one week of preseason games. Am I happy with who we got this offseason? You're damn right I am.

However it's possible that we could be back to square one in 3-5 years looking for another QB all the while Bradford has the Rams in the playoff hunt on an annual basis.

Also hypothetically speaking we still could have traded for Jamaal Brown at around the same price we got him for this year, and at this point Jamaal Brown is a much better LT then Williams. It's just that Shanahan would rather put Trent in this position from the get go.

All in all I'm ecstatic to have Trent, and even happier to have McNabb but it's way to early to say we would have been making a mistake had Bradford fell into our laps. All in all you still win in this league with QB play, we were just lucky that the Eagles brass decided to go on a bender during Easter Weekend and trade us McNabb (same with Jamaal Brown). I wouldn't count on that type of luck repeating itself.