In Defense of Vinny Cerrato

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Originally Posted by Defensewins

I might be wrong but he was GM spent themselves into the mess they are in now.

I don't think so he was but I could be wrong. he's been with the skins since 99 and that is plently of time to mitigate anything he would have done before that that. I don't like him either I and I do think he did a poor job with that team but I don't think he is mainly responsible for their cap hell right now. He probably had a little to do with it. Remember...in general teams operate on 3 years cycles right now and have since the 90's. Everyone plans out about 3 years in advance because by that fourth year everything is so unpredictable. I think most teams get into salary cap hell around the 4th year and are out of it after the 5th year. By 99 the 49ers were knee deep in a rebuilding I think so they were probably a year or two into their 3 year cycle. They have been straight up bad at salary cap manuevering since Walsh left.