"Building teams in the past isn't really any different than the way it is right now. You're still going out evaluating football players. You're hiring good scouts that can go out and identify good players that fit the type of culture you want," Jeff Beathard, who is currently a scout with the Commanders, said.
Championing Beathard the visionary is about where Washington is going just as much as it is about where the team has been.
"We'll always be inspired by Bobby and everything he's done here," Peters said.
What he did isn't limited to hardware and accolades. With its décor and design, the draft room strives to capture that depth of Beathard's time in Washington.
"People write stories, and they write about what he's done, but that room made me think people understood that he was so much more than a good GM," Christine Beathard said. "So many of the pictures, he was smiling or laughing. And I look at some of the videos where he is running out on the field and he embraces virtually everybody he meets."
Beathard's approach to his work – which he said never felt like work – built a one-of-a-kind culture in Washington and impacted everyone he crossed paths with.
"Football is my whole life," Beathard once told the Washington Post. "It's all I've ever wanted to do… If I had a lot of money and I didn't have to work, I'd still want to do this."