What Changes Should We Make Going Into 08?

[Defensewins]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

That is emphatically not true! I have to agree with the moves as well

Seriously though, a new GM is not going to come in and overrule Snyder and Gibbs on their philosophy of how to run the franchise. Gibbs, Snyder, and Cerrato have shown that they can work together and with their scouting team to find unheralded players that can be developed into solid to good to great Redskins and keep our key players when we want to. Whether we have to restructure or not, so what? We keep hearing people complain about the cap every year, but every year we're ok.

We can agree to disagree then.
All I said was before Gibbs arrived Cerratto and Snyder proved they were not very sucessful, see our season W-L and our salary numbers and playoff wins/appearances under the Cerratto/Snyder front office era. We consistantly had one highest payrolls and not very good W-L records. Not a good combination. How many playoff wins did we have under the Snyder/Cerratto front office?
We are fast to get rid of players that don't perform to a certain ability, why do we not rate our FO the same way?

In regards to "so what...every year we are ok" about having to restructure player contracts, again we disagree. I am not ok with the results since Snyder took over. As a life long Redskins fan I can say that.
Shawn Springs last offseason did not want to restructure his huge cap number. His number will be even bigger next year. We have a problem. When you cut or trade them it accelarates and creates even a worse cap problem. We are at the mercy of begging the players to restructure.
Plus every time we restruture a contract we make our future salary cap issues worse. I know this going to piss everyone off, but New England does not have to restructure contracts to the extent we do? Our past excesses from the FO of Snyder/Cerratto has us in the situation. Why are they not accountable?