First, let us be clear about something. I am not a doctor, nor did I ever play one on TV. I also didn’t sleep in a Holiday Inn last night. What I do seem to have is more than 2 brain cells to rub together, which appears to be more than we can say for most sports reporters.

However, even with my limited medical knowledge, I know that the concussion we all saw Griff sustain on Sunday had nothing to do with the fact that at 6-2 and 218 he is not as big as Newton and Luck. This fact,...

We have all heard the old saying “Fortune favors the bold”.

Well, if there is one word we can use to describe the move made by Mike Shanahan, Bruce Allen, Dan Synder and the whole Washington Redskins franchise yesterday it is “bold”.

Oh sure, there are a lot of other things it could and has been called in the last few hours. Things like “too much”, “desperate” and “a huge mistake”. But those who use those descriptors admit, at least most of them, that this move was...