http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports...9c5_story.html
Kyle Shanahan stands in his office at Redskins Park, flipping through the 154 gridded pages of a brown composition book.
It?s rare that this pad, more a football journal for the Washington Redskins? 32-year-old offensive coordinator, is beyond a few yards away. It?s with him at the team facility, at home, in his SUV. In this one and the stack on the bottom shelf behind him ? filled and filed away throughout the season ? he draws plays and leaves himself notes, working through situations and what-if scenarios each week.
?Just scribbles,? he says of the stream-of-consciousness elements that form the Redskins? weekly game plan.
These days, anything is possible, and any idea is worth scrawling on these pages. Shanahan was given a gift this past offseason, a supremely talented rookie quarterback named Robert Griffin III, and with it a chance to reclaim his career. The previous two seasons had been disappointing, and a young star in coaching had lost his shine. He clashed two years ago with quarterback Donovan McNabb. Last year, Shanahan?s offense struggled with two unremarkable quarterbacks.
The difficulties amplified a notion that has chased and bothered Shanahan throughout much of his life: that he?s only been successful, at making varsity teams years ago or in this corner office in Ashburn because he?s been trading off the name of his father, Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan.
?I want to prove to people,? Kyle says, ?that that?s not the case.?
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