The free-agent contracts handed out by the Washington Redskins no longer cause gasps or create market value for other players. Instead, as this offseason showed once again, the team is now more about frugality and trying to find bargains.
If the approach works and these players help, the Redskins will be praised for their finds -- and they will have landed bargains. If not, they’ll be considered just cheap and ineffective. Although their frugal approach nowadays causes angst, their old, free-spending ways used to result in offseason championships -- and in-season disappointment. Of course, firing the general manager and the uncertainty over quarterback Kirk Cousins' future add to that current angst.