Maybe Vinny Cerrato isn't the Anti-Christ

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

Here's a question Sheriff: What do you think Vinny's responsibilities are?

I really don't know precisely what his duties are and that is the whole point. People who have no clue who is to blame for our problems blame Vinny because he is convenient scapegoat. If people need someone to blame, I guess Vinny is a convenient and easy target.

The two biggest critcisms of the Redskins FO that I hear are "We overpay players" and "We don't value the draft and we trade too many picks away." Problem is, salary structures and trading draft picks are definately not in Vinny's area of responsibility.

Vinny could be to blame for a lot. But until someone explains to me how Vinny has made X, Y, and Z bad decisions and can verify that such decisions were actualy his (as opposed to wildly speculating), I will have no clue how people can honestly lay blame for our woes at Vinny's feet.

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

I really don't know precisely what his duties are and that is the whole point. People who have no clue who is to blame for our problems blame Vinny because he is convenient scapegoat. If people need someone to blame, I guess Vinny is a convenient and easy target.

The two biggest critcisms of the Redskins FO that I hear are "We overpay players" and "We don't value the draft and we trade too many picks away." Problem is, salary structures and trading draft picks are definately not in Vinny's area of responsibility.

Vinny could be to blame for a lot. But until someone explains to me how Vinny has made X, Y, and Z bad decisions and can verify that such decisions were actualy his (as opposed to wildly speculating), I will have no clue how people can honestly lay blame for our woes at Vinny's feet.

I see. So you don't know what his actual responsibilities are, yet you're certain he doesn't deserve any of the blame for the state of this franchise. And I'll bet you're not ready to lay the blame with Joe Gibbs, because, well ... that's just wrong. And all Dan Snyder does is sign the checks.

So there you go. Zero accountability. Everybody gets a pass. How convenient! Wish my job operated that way. Give a crap performance, put a crappy product on the field, and the responsible party is a mystery! A phantom if you will. And since the origin of that crappy product cannot be traced, we get the same old, same old.

It's a good thing other teams don't operate that way. The NFL would be in a sorry state if that were the case.

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

I see. So you don't know what his actual responsibilities are, yet you're certain he doesn't deserve any of the blame for the state of this franchise. And I'll bet you're not ready to lay the blame with Joe Gibbs, because, well ... that's just wrong. And all Dan Snyder does is sign the checks.

No, I've repeatedly said that Vinny has probably made some good decisions and some bad ones. I just find it interesting that people who have no clue what the inner workings of the front office are somehow have the miraculous ability to blame Vinny for everything that goes wrong.

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

So there you go. Zero accountability. Everybody gets a pass. How convenient!

I don't know who is accountable for what, so I don't know how to lay blame at any particular individual's feet. I suppose if you want to randomly pick out a guy to be a scapegoat and target of all pent-up frustration with the team, Vinny is as good of a guy to blame as anyone.