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I think that Betts and Russell were both picked to satiate Spurrier, and not because they were the best players on the board at that point in time.
Dan Snyder has always tried to give his coaches the players they wanted, and this has not always been the smartest thing to do.
This has been one of my criticizms of Snyder - that in letting the coach dictate the flow of a draft, he is forgetting the fact that some people are paid to coach a team and some people are paid to create a team.
The most successful NFL franchises have clear delineations between the coach and general manager.
We still don't have that and it is a chronic problem that will ail us until Danny realizes he is not a professional general manager.
Whether getting Brunell for Gibbs is a smart idea remains to be seen, but I don't know that anyone would argue with Gibbs for the time being.
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