NFL Kickoff Week: Washington's defensive workbooks found in a dumpster?

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Recently a fan claimed that he found Washington's defensive playbooks in in the trash. Considering their D is ranked nearly last in the league, we had to ask our panelists: 

Why did it take this long to find Washington’s defensive workbooks in a dumpster?

Phillip Barnett: The football team based in our nation's capital has an issue with holding onto things and ideas for way too long. Quarterbacks, coaches, and even the general ethos of what their franchise chooses to represent have all been held on for much too long. Asking Washington to change their defensive philosophy would be akin to asking grizzly bears when they're going to stop hibernating in the winter. Giving up touchdowns off quick slants is just what they do, it's a part of their identity. 

Jamie Neal: They had defensive workbooks before this season? Seriously though, Washington has only finished in the top half of the league’s defenses three times since 1995. As big a dumpster fire as that entire organization is and has been for the past two decades, it stands to reason that nobody wanted to hold on to those books long enough to take them to a dumpster.

Sam Greszes: I mean, would you want to go through the dumpster at Washington's practice field? I feel like there are horrors there that humanity was not meant to see – the defensive workbooks included. 

Joe Boland: What would Washington's defense scheme be without garbage plays? They can't throw out what they love, garbage defense. 

Mike Tunison: Jim Haslett insisted on getting sensitive documents shredded, much like his defenses would be shredded by opposing teams - The Dumpster Comedian 

Demetrius Bell: I heard a rumor that that's also where the blueprints for Dan Snyder's grand idea to put a Washington's logo-shaped satellite in space were, so there was no way that anybody would think that those two things would share a common dumpster, right? 

Vincent Frank: They were covered up by Daniel Snyder's poster collection of Robert Griffin III. 

Shiloh Carder: It is Washington where everyone is busy on vacation or finger pointing to get anything done. I guess everyone else was busy with lost emails and wall building to care right now. 

Daniel Tran: The Redskin Mascot Controversy was a well-placed distraction put into motion by the Washington Redskin organization to mask their very callous treatment of their workbooks. This scenario is preferable to the more real possibility that Redskin staff members didn't think those workbooks were important enough to shred. 

David Matthews: I have no idea. How industrial sabotage and espionage doesn't happen with every team is what surprises me the most about the NFL. It's not like these workbooks going public is going to make the Redskins defense worse. Josh Norman can't fix everything.