Redskins One hasn't flown west. Or East or South for that matter. The Redskins have been uncharacteristically quiet in free agency now four days old. The team needs to fill backup roles at CB, S, LB, WR, and G/C. However, the Redskins seem to feel that by waiting, they can best be able to select the best players remaining on the market at a reduced cost. The Redskins have been forced into playing the waiting game, though perhaps by design. This plan for NFC dominance clearly began with a huge spending spree in 2006. The motto of spend then, and let Joe Gibbs have a few shots at a 4th Super Bowl title was sound, but a few misevaluations (to say the least) in personnel kept the Redskins grounded. Either way, when a team opts to spend as much as the Redskins did (and those contracts don't look too bad by modern comparison), you're committing yourself to NOT spend in the future. And here the Redskins are doing exactly that. If not for the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, Antwaan Randle El and Andre Carter would not be Redskins. Brandon Lloyd and Adam Archuleta would never have been Redskins. Phillip Daniels, Shawn Springs, and Ladell Betts would probably no longer be with the team, and Fred Smoot would likely not have resigned. Without a new CBA, the Redskins in 2007 would have featured names like Demetric Evans, Jeremetrius Butler, Reche Caldwell as the 2nd receiver, and Marcus Mason at backup RB. Obviously, the Redskins are being careful not to phase out their vets too fast this year. Springs and Daniels may be nearing the end of the road, but both are likely to play a big role in the defense this year. The contracts of Archuleta and Lloyd will not sting the Redskins beyond 2009. But for the next three years, the team still has to find a way under the cap each year. This season, the Redskins restructured 30 million dollars of base salary. Next year, they plan to cut vets like Springs and Daniels. Plus, they are still going to have to find room under the cap to pay Jason Campbell like a franchise quarterback. All, in all, the Redskins are looking at cap deficits in the range of ten million dollars each of the next two years. The damage of the last few seasons has warranted the solution of the present. The Redskins won't spend, because they can't. That's not to say that the team won't improve if they draft well in the next two drafts. They will, and the veteran pieces are already in place. They don't need to spend for leadership; they bought that last offseason. They don't need to spend for any gaping holes in the starting lineup; there are none. They don't need to spend for mass team improvement; they were a playoff team in 2007. They aren't spending because they can't, but they also don't need to spend. The Redskins have one need, and that is to get younger across the board while the team makes a run at the Super Bowl. The Redskins plan in 2006 may not have delivered the desired results, but this team will get there, so long as they stick to the plan.