Everybody in the world knows who picks the player in Washington, is not Vinnie Cerrato and certainly not Eric Shaffer.
If Shaffer is the sole responsible to signing those contracts, then he is magic. I just can't understand how a team that always is way over the cap have been able to bring high-profile free agents. If someone in the organisation is not fiscally responsible, it is Snyder.
I presume that Loomis should have read some of this contracts, and may have been surprised by the creativity of them. Shaffer may be an asset for the saints, considering the man who will be authorizing (or not) the contracts, is Loomis.