Sonny indicates our prayers may be answered

Assuming that the team finishes 4-12, I don't see how Snyder rationalizes keeping Vinny. Drafting Davis, Thomas, and Kelly was a stroke of brilliance when we were weak on both lines, but especially vulnerable on the O-line. This team is built like a fantasy football team. Somebody give Snyder a clue that his next GM better have an extensive plan to rebuild our line, or we will become a perenniel neighbor of Detroit and St. Louis in the standings.

I really, really, really, don't get DS's infatuation with Vinny. I mean, the only success this team has had is when Vinny was subordinate to Gibbs. What is his fascination with this guy? Can someone please, please explain??? I am serious so please don't give me the "he's got pictures" response. For 10 years, more or less, Vinny has been intergral to this team and it has been mediocre, unfocused and, without Gibbs around, team turmoil. How does DS not see this is Vinny? Particularly after the smear campaign on GW.

Any way, if someone has a serious answer - I'd love to hear it.

He's got pictures, seriously.

He's got pics of Snyder doing coke w/ 3 strippers in a hotel room. I mean he's just about the most incompetent person I've ever seen in an important position. Forget about his record, I can tell that just by listening to him talk.

Thanks for posting Paintrain and this is wonderful news! If DS does fire Vinny and goes about what everyone here is saying about getting the best money that can buy in regards to a GM he is finally getting at the root of the problem and we have hope.

I along with everyone else here will party the min we hear that it has happen. HEis the problem. We might have other little problems but he is a big problem.

The only person who will be able to answer that is DS himself.

Maybe behind closed doors he makes these moving and well thought presentations of the direction of the team. He is doing a good job of holding onto his job.

Just cant wait until he gets the boot!

and this is where you lose me....honestly, have you listened to Vinny speak? Perhaps you were grasping for an answer to help a brother out but Vinny reminds me of the special ed kids. No offense to anyone who has a child like this but looking at him and listening to him when he tries to present a well thought out answer is comedic. I get the feeling everytime I watch him that DS felt sorry for him and gave him a job. How DS would ever let himself be fooled by this joker for sooo long is beyond me.

I could see Vinny over seeing the theme park, or district manager at McDonalds but not building an NFL team. LOL....and to those with jobs as theme park managers or district managers at McDonalds....he wouldn't compare to you. LOL. I just think he needs to find a manager job outside of football cause he sucks.

SBXVII - I really can't see Vinny in those posts because they require actually long term planning which when looking at his team building methods don't really incorporate.

At Six Flags for example the GM has to prepare long term capital plan to set out where the entity will spend and build rides and so forth. I kind of liken this to how will the GM will plan not just this year but the next several years to building the Redskins.

Instead I see a GM who goes out and get a Mike Williams to patch the line, I see someone pushing to give away multiple picks to acquire a potential superstars WR in Brandon Llyod, overpaying way too many players to simply win the offseason free agency title, I see contiuous trading of draft picks to solve the lack of depth across the board. I can go on but you all already understand the moves and the result to the teams ability to compete. We are not one player away or even one draft away from turning the corner, we will need a couple of drafts to restock the team and that is if we get a new GM to run the show ASAP.

While I want Vinny to get fired, and while I like Dan Steinberg, and while I believe that Sonny is indeed part of Snyder's inner circle, I did not believe when I finished this article any more than when I started it that Vinny might get fired at the of this season. Steinberg could have just written the following: "Sonny Jurgensen stated in a radio interview yesterday that, if the Redskins current downward spiral continues until the very end of this season and the team finishes with no more than four wins, Vinny Cerrato has a good chance of being fired."

Really?

I so hope this is the case! This would be the best Christmas present, well that and the Skins finally getting an O Line!

As much as we would like to see Vinny gone, I'll have to see it happen to believe it.