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Assorted Media Members Predict The Pick After The Presser

Head coach Mike Shanahan held the traditional pre-draft press conference today, which contained the tradtional abject lack of any information. (It’s always struck me as strange that there’s an annual press conference held on the day that the actual disclosure of information is LEAST likely, but I’m assured that it’s a longstanding and reasonable tradition.) Gary Fitzgerald has the intricate details of the presser over on the Redskins.com homebase if you’re interested.

Personally, I found myself more intrigued by the what the local media would take away from the presser — the first time the coach has spoken in a while, and the only real chance to get a glimpse of his draft plans — so I surveyed a few folks after Shanahan finished speaking. This is the result:

(Full disclosure: there’s actually a longer version that’s been lost to technical difficulties, so this is actually a much shorter result. I’ll post the full version if I can manage to recover it.)