Lighten Up On Snyder

[Skinny Tee]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

It's up to Cerrato and the coaches to decide who we select. It's up to the scouts, Scott Campbell, and Mo Brown to find players for them to choose from.

http://www.thewarpath.net/523135-post23.html

The decision to go after or not go after offensive linemen is not the responsibility of anyone but Cerrato, Zorn, Snyder and in this particular example Bugel (with possibly Eric Schaffer tossed in due to his role in the salary cap)

The scouts under Scott Campbell are the ones who find a Marko Mitchell in the 7th round. They don't decide if he's drafted. The scouts under Morocco Brown are the ones who find a Dominique Dorsey (for lack of a better example) right now. They don't decide if we sign him.

I think you just want change for the sake of change, meaning anything even remotely associated with Cerrato you want gone. But realistically I don't see that being of much benefit to us to just completely tear the entire organization down. Make changes at the top, sure. But we have several good scouts (which I don't believe we did when Gibbs joined) that we are better off holding on to, in my opinion.

It's funny...in a lot of your posts I hear you propagate the scouts. I'm starting to think you have a vested interest in the scouting department. Are you on the staff? : )

I'm aware of the whole scouting to GM aspect but even players like Reinhart in the 3rd Round turned out shaky and you could possibly cite our WR group from 08 who have been getting shown up by people drafted after them like D. Jackson and E. Royal...(just citing performance and not physical stature reason as to why we didn't select them.)

I really couldn't tell you how the individual scouting of our current staff affects our on field performance but, to me by perception, it seems like if they had any Cerrato ties then it wouldn't be that big of a big loss...especially when even Cerrato wouldn't even give them a chance to show their worth due to trading away high draft picks.