Tired of hearing the Redskins overpaid for RG3 and Pierre Garcon? Read this.

Mike Holmgren told me everything I need to know about the Washington Redskins trade-up for the Rams' slot in the 2012 NFL Draft. Why else would the president of the Cleveland Browns have to explain to season ticket holders that he lost the bid to trade up for the rights to Robert Griffin III? "I'm not going to tell you exactly what we offered, but I will say what we had offered for the pick was every bit the offer that was chosen," Holmgren told Browns season-ticket holders during a conference call according to a story on cleveland.com. So two of pro football's leading practitioners of the West Coast Offense thought it was worth it to swap first round picks with the Rams and throw two more first round picks and a second round pick to consummate the deal. When it's Mike Shanahan and Holmgren making that call, it's no longer a question that RG3 is worth whatever it took to make the deal. I can image in a similar conversation with Shanahan explaining t...