BOCA RATON, Fla. — Scot McCloughan knows the money will flow freely every year in free agency as other teams pursue the top available players on the market, but the Washington Redskins‘ general manager is still surprised whenever the deals start blossoming.
“The thing that’s scary about free agency is you always overpay,” McCloughan said on Tuesday at the NFL’s annual meeting.
McCloughan doesn’t believe in being a big spender as much as he is committed to retaining his own players. As early as the Senior Bowl at the end of January, he reiterated that same philosophy and certainly stuck by it when free agency began two weeks ago.