In Defense of Vinny Cerrato

[FRPLG]

Man you have simply ignored 75% of the personnel moves made in the Cerrato era. Since he has been here(minus one year when Marty got him pushed out) they have yet to have a good draft.
A look at our drafts since Snyder and Cerrato have been here
99
Bailey Jansen Stimson D Smith Jeff Hall T Alexander
00
Arrington Samuels L Harrison M Moore Q Sanders T Husak D Cowsette E Howell
01(Marty ball)
Gardner Smoot S Rosenfels McCants M Monds
02
Ramsey Betts Bauman Russell Lott Royal R Coleman J Grau G Scott Cartwright
03
Jacobs Dockery Hamdan
04
Taylor Cooley Wilson Molinaro

So can any of us say any of those are impressive? Don't think so. We can withhold judgment on 04 and probably 03 but 03 only had 3 picks so how good can it be. It is pretty easy to make the first and second round picks. It's the 3-4-5 picks that we either didn't have or did a poor job of using. SO our drafts have been average at best. Now lets examine some free agent moves we made under the good ole Cerrato reign.
I'll only list the free agents that are of note for this discussion. If they aren't listed assume they either didn't make the team or were totaly insiginificant
99
Traded for B Johnson S Shade
00
J George D Sanders B Smith A Murrell K Mitchell M Carrier
01 Marty ball
B Barker B Conway D Greer K Lockett W Rasby
02
Wuerfell Anthony Green Armstead Trotter
03
Coles Morton J Hall Noble Fiore Thomas Bowen
04
Barrow Washington Daniels Griffin Springs Raymer Right Tackles Galore Portis Brunell


Wow...I left off a ton of guys who I guess were marginally important..guys like backup OLMs who ended up playing some. The point was that base on the list aboev I can't say we have done well in Free Agency. We ahd some good years(2003) and some and(2002) but at the end of the day there are too many over the ehill of of the road type guys. I haven't even gone into the guys we lost. If you look at it objectively we just have not had a quality personnel guy since Casserly.