Tuesday, February 23: Meet The Coaches - Keenan McCardell, Wide Receivers

Thinking of former Pro Bowl wide receiver Keenan McCardell as "Keenan McCardell, wide receivers coach" is still unusual, to say the least -- even for McCardell himself. "Sounds strange," he says, as Larry Michael introduces their interview on Inside The Redskins, "usually Keenan McCardell, wide receiver, huh?" But to a certain extent, that's one of McCardell's greatest assets as he starts his first season as a position coach: he knows the players, and he understands what he's asking of them. That's what Antwaan Randle El -- former McCardell teammate, now McCardell protege -- told me, and that's what McCardell himself believes. "I have relationships with guys," McCardell says to Michael. "I understand the guys. And they believe in me. They know what type of player I was, what type of person I am. And I think that's gonna push me so far ahead of guys that would've came in here that didn't know these guys....