What does Vinny Cerrato do?

I think Vinny's most important function here is to let The Danny win at racquetball.

As I understand it, essentially you've got Louis Riddick leading a team of scouts that research and target pro players (NFL, CFL, AFL) and then Scott Campbell leads the team that does the same for the college players. And Vinny oversees both groups, participates in the latters stages of player evaluation, makes suggestions based on their findings, and essentially serves as a filter of information to ownership (and Gibbs when he was here).

But they supposedly give Riddick/Campbell pretty much carte blanche, not sure I'm using the term right actually but Snyder and Cerrato usually go off their recommendations without much pushback.

And the other key player is Eric Schaeffer, who handles the money.

I hear Eric Schaeffer is one smart cookie. Or if you live in Boston, he's smaat.

I hear Eric Schaeffer is one smart cookie. Or if you live in Boston, he's smaat.

One of my bosses here worked with him at IMG, said he's "fuckin' brilliant" Could easily run a team, could be Commissioner even.

I sometimes wonder if Vinny Cerato is there as an excuse to let Dan Synder make decisions in regards to personel, since a lot of us got nervous after the first few years of Dan Synder making decisions on his own. In other words when we sign a player the credit goes to Vinny Cerato and Dan Synder rather then Dan Synder making decisions on his own.

Metaphor: Its kind of like Synder going to court with a lawyer as opposed to an average Joe representing himself in a felony case.

On a side note I'm pro-Dan Synder, I love the guy and personally woulnd't want anyone else to own the Redskins short of Joe Gibbs.

One of my bosses here worked with him at IMG, said he's "fuckin' brilliant" Could easily run a team, could be Commissioner even.

Can't remember where, but I've heard at least twice he's really the brains behind the whole Snyder, Cerrato, formerly Joe Gibbs three-headed monster.

Schaeffer is the cap guy who keeps us out of cap hell.

As I understand it, essentially you've got Louis Riddick leading a team of scouts that research and target pro players (NFL, CFL, AFL) and then Scott Campbell leads the team that does the same for the college players. And Vinny oversees both groups, participates in the latters stages of player evaluation, makes suggestions based on their findings, and essentially serves as a filter of information to ownership (and Gibbs when he was here).

But they supposedly give Riddick/Campbell pretty much carte blanche, not sure I'm using the term right actually but Snyder and Cerrato usually go off their recommendations without much pushback.

And the other key player is Eric Schaeffer, who handles the money.

Okay, thanks for some clarification on this.

So, if this is the way things are structured what problem could Gregg Williams have with Cerrato? Why would he want a GM to come in, and what would that mean for the current setup?

BTW, sorry for the length of my original post, I just wanted to be as clear as possible on what I was trying to understand. I wasn't sure if this was thread worthy, but I asked a similar question in another thread and got no response. Also this debate with Rob has gone on for a little while now and was going nowhere because of lack of understanding, So I just wanted to push the discussion forward a little bit.

What a GM would mean is a great question, because no one really knows. That's why I always say the "We need a GM" argument carries little weight because no one can really say what that would mean.

The prolbem with Vinny is really this: No one likes him. Almost to a man (and woman), every person I've talked to who works/worked with him says the same thing. "Smart guy. Knows what he's doing. But he's hard to like."

Honestly, it's the weirdest thing. No one can ever really tell me why. Best I can gather is that no one really trusts him.

But there's one person who does...and that's all that matters. Actually I don't even know how much Snyder trusts him entirely.

Quite the enigma, that Mr. Cerrato.

He kind of looks like a rat... that's why no-one likes him.

I'm on the "aint broke, don't fix" band wagon. As fans, it looks as if we don't really know entirely what he does. So either arguments, for or against VC, carry little weight.

It is what it is.

That pisses me off.