With all 22 starters back from a playoff team, the Redskins wouldn't seem to have much to have had to accomplish this offseason. Except for the fact that first-time coach Jim Zorn didn't replace the retired Joe Gibbs until Feb. 9 and then began installing an entirely new West Coast-style passing attack that's very different from the system run the past two years by dismissed associate head coach Al Saunders.

Greg Blache's promotion from defensive line coach to coordinator, replacing the fired Gregg Williams, meant much less change on that side of the ball. Indeed, Blache's defense will basically be Williams' minus much of its complexity/number of packages.

The Redskins haven't had to adjust too many changes in personnel because they only lost such little-used backups as ...More