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Originally Posted by TAFKAS
Thanks. Interesting article. I always find it curious that people like to basically say that only the Redskins really go after free agents. I mean you could say both the Bears and Redskins went hard after El and Arch and ultimately the Redskins outbid the Bears. Or you could say the Bears stuck to their plan while the Redskins went after El and Arch
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Yeah, it's absurd. We are an easy target because Snyder makes a lot of other teams angry with how free and fast he is with the checkbook, so when it DOESN'T go right, it's like they can't wait to throw stones, or go find some idealized vacuum setting where cultivating talent through the draft worked perfectly for one team, and then use it as a case study to point out how stupid we are as a club.
Steinbrenner fields the best baseball team money can buy every year, and he isn't demonized the way Snyder is. Is it just a cap thing? Clearly, some of the early experiments with FA sprees (Bruce Smith, Deion, etc.) were spectacular failures and maybe that's what's still dogging Snyder, I don't know. But I frankly doubt that any other team in the league would have gotten this much shit for signing Randle El, Lloyd, AA, and Carter.