Choose Your 2014 Redskins Head Coach (Volume 2)

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by SkinsGuru

Shanahan was warned by the league prior to doing so . . . and HE made the decision to roll the dice thinking the league wouldn't follow through for fear of "collusion" being thrown around .. . HE lost the gamble and the Skins were stripped of 36 million in cap space . . . regardless of whether or not you believe the penalties were justified, Shanny new that punishment would occur if they did not get the NFL to stand down as we all know they couldn't . . .

either way, we'd be paying it somehow. whether in the cap penalty the league imposed or over the years the money was guaranteed in the first place.

there are a lot better and more biting reasons to call shanahan a failure than the cap penalty.