The Best of Vinny

[MTK]

Originally Posted by SolidSnake84

My personal one was when Mark Brunell was signed in 2004 to a 7 year, 43 million dollar contract when Mark at the time was 33 years old. I'm not sure if that was Vinny or not, but even though Mark was my favorite player here, i still thought the move was crazy given his age...we would have been much better off to do a higher paid contract over a shorter period of time, IMO...

Vinny didn't handle contracts though, and that move was all Gibbs.

The years weren't really significant, obviously neither party thought he was going to here for 7 years. It was just the way the deal was structured to stretch out and lessen the cap hits. If you do a shorter deal, his cap impact would have been much higher.

[SouperMeister]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Vinny didn't handle contracts though, and that move was all Gibbs.

The years weren't really significant, obviously neither party thought he was going to here for 7 years. It was just the way the deal was structured to stretch out and lessen the cap hits. If you do a shorter deal, his cap impact would have been much higher.

During Gibbs 2.0, Vinny's job was to provide talent evaluations leading up to free agency and the draft. In that regard, the Skins passing on Kellen Winslow to draft Sean Taylor, then trading up to the 3rd round to get Cooley (the first two draft choices of Gibbs 2.0) may have been Vinny's finest hour here. That said, Gibbs had final say on all moves during his 2nd tour of duty.