My worst Fear: V Cerrato Running the Redskins

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Originally Posted by skins009

Dear Skins fans I'm afraid my worst fear in the football world has come true, Vinny Cerrato is now running the redskins (even though Synder is really running things). A quick summary of Cerrato's brillant decisions these last 4 years.

Signing Mark Brunnel
Trading Champ Baily AND A 2Nd ROUND Pick for Clinton Portis
Giving Brandon Lloyd a massive contract
Not only signing Archuletta but also feeling the need to give him the biggest contract ever for a safety at the time
Extending Jon Jansen's contract at a time when Jansen literally couldn't block me coming of the edge

Furthermore the way you judge is personnel person is how he drafts in the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th rounds. IT's hear that personnel people really get their teams ahead by spotting talent that other teams have missed. The fact is tha Cerrato can't claim to ever really finding any quality players in these rounds. I very often hear some redskis fans say, but wait cerrato drafted Sean Taylor, "that was a good pick." This is dumb because when your picking 5th overall you supposed to find a good player. Anybody could look at the tape of Taylor and know he was gonna he a good player. Its in the later rounds that GM's earn their paychecks. I will rip dan synder in another post. (he's a cancer to the organization)

First off, HGale posted the link to the Cerrato interview on Redskins radio and he is correct Cerrato did "take repsonsibility" for Lloyd, Arch and Duckett. But what should he do, trash GW (Arch) and Saunders (Lloyd)? NFL Preview: Al Saunders on the attack for Redskins | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com (if I need to find a link for GW pushing for Arch I definitely can). I haven't been a big Brunell fan, but he did have some success and our QB situation wasn't the most stable at the time anyway. Also, as others have said, Brunell was on Gibbs.

Of course Cerrato is going to do the stand up thing and take responsibility for bad FO moves (I have more respect for him doing that). But, after reading the article it sounds like Cerrato has a pretty good focus on what needs the team has and it sounds like many of same things folks here have been pulling for.

I don't think all our FO moves have been bad.

Cooley - 3rd round same draft as Sean Taylor. So we passed on KWII who has had injury issues and got a Pro Bowl safety & Pro Bowl TE (advantage Cerrato).

Anthony Montgomery - 5th round
Reed Doughty - 6th round
Kedric Golston - 6th round
HB Blades - 6th round
Lorenzo Alexander - UFA
Stephon Heyer - Undrafted FA
Pete Kendall
Anthony Mix
Casey Rabach
Randy Thomas
Chris Wilson
Marcus Washington

As far as ripping Snyder, how about you be in charge of a $1B football team with no experience. I'm sure you won't make any mistakes along the way..... Has Snyder's learning process been difficult for us a fans, absolutely yes. However he wants to win and isn't afraid to spend money to do it no matter what it does to the botom line. We should be thankful we have an owner who runs the Skins with passion and doesn't run it like a business with the only concern being the balance sheet.

Let's put things in perspective, we made the playoffs two of the last three years. No matter how you slice it, that's the bottom line, and is a lot better than most teams in the NFL.