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Redskins gamble on restricted free agents

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Thursday, July 31, 2003

ASHBURN, Va. -- Throughout the NFL, where teams have been forced in recent rookie contract negotiations to respond to the revolutionary tactic employed by the Washington Redskins this spring, there are a lot of unprintable epithets for Dan Snyder's strategy of pirating away restricted free agents. In the recently refurbished office of the Redskins owner, however, it is described in a terse two-word code. Our Gamble, they call it here, and the handle is an appropriate one. Never shy about roll ...

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