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Redskins Nation, Rise Up! Vinny Cerrato Has to Go!
By
John Limpert
Published Monday, October 19, 2009
Dan Snyder bought the Washington Redskins in May 1999 and at first looked like a savvy businessman who loved the team and might become a great owner.
Little did fans know that his hiring of Vinny Cerrato that year would doom the team to years of disappointment and mediocrity.
There was a brief moment of hope in 2001 when Snyder fired head coach Norv Turner after an 8–8 season and hired a tough, experienced coach, Marty Schottenheimer, and gave him some real power. One of the first things Schottenheimer did was fire Vinny Cerrato.
Who was Vinny Cerrato? He had been the player personnel chief for the San Francisco 49ers in the 1990s, leaving mostly wreckage behind, before he was hired by Snyder in 1999 and fired by Schottenheimer in 2001. But when Schottenheimer’s Redskins went 8–8 in 2001, Snyder fired Schottenheimer and, figuring he could run the team with someone like Cerrato as his yes man, rehired Vinny.
It’s been one disaster after another ever since.
Why does Snyder keep Cerrato while firing coach after coach and losing game after game? The best guess is that Snyder the fan thinks he’s smarter than all the other NFL professionals and as long as Cerrato is there he can decide who to sign and who to play.
Dan, it’s over. Fire Cerrato. Hire a general manager who knows the NFL and let the GM hire the next coach. For all of Jack Kent Cooke’s bluster as the Redskins owner, he was ten times smarter than Snyder. Cooke hired Bobby Beathard as the real boss of the team, Beathard hired Joe Gibbs as coach, and the rest is history.
For our version of Redskins history, here are several of our calls for Snyder to stop playing fantasy football and run the Redkins as a professional football team.
Dan, It’s Time to Sack Cerrato! (December 2007)
Snyder’s Seven Redskins Sins (August 2007)
Fire Snyder? No, First Fire Vinny (January 2005) More>> Capital Comment Blog | News & Politics | Party Photos
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Comments
The ’skins are one of my 2 arch enemies but even I want Cerrato to go. The guy is a disaster and has taken a once proud franchise down with his incompetence.
Posted by: EAGLES Fan, Dec 14, 2009 04:36:44 AM
n protest of the Redskins socialist tactics to silence the Redskin faithful I call for all to bring signs saying: "Fire Vinny and/or Danny Sell the Team!".
Whoever prints up these signs and sells them at FEDEX can make a small capitalist democratic fortune.
Posted by: Mark McKnight, Oct 29, 2009 08:17:57 PM
In protest of the Redskins socialist tactics to silence the Redskin faithful I call for all to bring signs saying: "Fire Vinny and/or Danny Sell the Team!".
Whoever prints up these signs and sells them at FEDEX can make a small capitalist democratic fortune.
Posted by: mbmcknight | October 29, 2009 9:48 PM
SEE ARTICLE BELOW:
http://views.washingtonpost.com/world-wide-wilbon/wilbon/2009/10/censorship_at_fedex.html
Posted by: Mark McKnight, Oct 29, 2009 08:03:55 PM
Its time to get a new GM....400 coaches, 35 qb’s...same results. GM has to go
Posted by: SUNDEVIL13, Oct 26, 2009 08:53:07 PM
Snyder is THE problem. Fire him. It can be done. Don’t buy tickets to games. A half- or more empty stadium for the home games will cut off important income and lower the sales price of the franchise. Want to add more pressure: don’t watch or listen to the games. If you do, note the advertisers and then boycott them (do tell them what you’re doing, and why). Want to do still more: Don’t purchase anything else with which Snyder is involved, e.g., Six Flags.
Remember: buy tickets and view or listen to the games and you support Snyder’s continuing as the primary owner of the Redskins. Do you really want another decade like the past one. Hasn’t the past decade been more than enough. I say, enough is enough: Snyder has to go. No ifs, buts or maybes. He has to go.
One last suggestion: Should you intersect with Snyder, shun him: turn away and say nothing.
Posted by: Jim Breiling, Oct 20, 2009 03:28:11 PM
The Redskins need a new owner. Things have never, and will never, work well for the skins as long as Snyder is the owner. He should sell the team to someone who understans football!
Posted by: Ex-Redskins Fan, Oct 20, 2009 08:58:50 AM
Has someone presented this artical to Snyder yet? It hits one of the major problems with the Skins. How can any coach have an impact on this team as long a Cerrato and Snyder make ALL the calls. Can’t wait for them to fire Zorn just to find out that no respectable NFL coach (or college coach) will degrade themselves by working for Snyder. Do you really see Cower comming out of retirement to deal with this? Dungy? Shanahan? Until there is a fundamental change in the Redskins organization starting with Fantasy Football Dan Snyder we are never going to be a contender in the NFL, just a spot for washed up vet’s to make one last bonus.
Posted by: What to do..., Oct 19, 2009 01:39:11 PM
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