Cerrato

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by Stacks42

V. Cerrato has f-ed our team again with this whole salary cap fiasco. He did it when he was here the first time, then Schottenheimer comes in and "rights the ship" for one year, Cerrato comes back and trashes it again. Why is he still around? He over pays everyone, is a poor talent evaluator, and structures deals that end up biting the skins in the ass, not to mention those crazy bug eyes. I know he is DS's boy but where ever he goes, he seems to bring salary cap problems along with him, hes the one that screwed up the 49ers cap years ago.

Cerrato isn't the GM. Moreover, many of the recent free agent acquisitions have been good - Griffin, Moss, Washington, Springs, Portis, Thomas, Clark, to name a few. Who we draft is often determined by the coach, Snyder, and the scouting reports (which Cerrato doesn't do). So, I'm not sure how Cerrato is to blame. But, I know he's a popular figure to blame.

While we may be entering the depths of the salary cap hell, we wouldn't be (at least yet) if the CBA were extended (as most thought it would be). The Redskins have done a pretty good job of proving people like me wrong about how good/bad our cap is being managed. For years people like me said that we were going to go into cap jail. We haven't really seen too much cap hell yet (save the loss of Pierce and Smoot). If an extension to the CBA is reached, we might not ever see cap hell.

[Paintrain]

I actually think what the Redskins did, planning wise, was a decent job of managing the cap.. Their obvious mis-step was assuming the CBA would be signed. If so, they would only be about 8 million over the cap, easily able to get to that point and have $$ to sign free agents... Nobody anticipated this labor situation coming to pass and even with it coming we are potentially looking at not having 4 starters (Royal, Clark, Hall, Wynn) from last season's playoff team? We'll have no veteran depth, but with teams looking at releasing players like Dunn, Derrick Brooks, Moulds, Simeon Rice it's not going to be as ugly as it will be in other cities from a star/impact player standpoint.