Draft Deals Dynamic Duo

Ryan Anderson’s quote struck me like a thunderbolt.

- Rick Snider

“I’m the old-smith football player,” he said. “I’m not a combine warrior, not a workout warrior, I’m a football player. At the end of the day, that’s what it boils down to. It boils down to ‘See ball, get ball and striking the man in front of you.’ That’s what I bring to the table.”

Amen, amen and amen.

If the Redskins are to ever truly contend for the Super Bowl again, they need ballers like the second-round linebacker from Alabama. Same goes for his Crimson Tide teammate and first-rounder Jonathan Allen, who played high school football a few miles from Redskins Park.

The tandem are ballers. Like Chris Hanburger and Dexter Manley. Like those before the free agency windfall of the 1990s turned players into businessmen.

They are coming to knock the snot out of opponents. Like Vikings ready to pillage your village. And that, my friends, is what truly wins games.

The Redskins may sport seven new starters on defense, which is a good thing overall for a No. 28 unit. As one NFL executive told me, aside from Josh Norman and Ryan Kerrigan, anyone else could be replaced and if Washington hadn’t substantially upgraded off a No. 28 defense then something was truly wrong.