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REDSKINS Facing Downer -- Thanks To The Danny And the Vinny! (Can You Say, "Six and Ten"?)

Well, doofusses (doofi?), here we are.   Another bottom-feeders season
about to unravel.

It’s bad enough havin’ to endure another mind-erasing  Skins “season,
”
but more annoying are the guys here who undoubtedly will bore us ad
nauseam with their plagiarized “scorecards,” “insider” information,
and personal attacks, the likes of  which have no more relevance than
their last bowel movements.

Which reminds, me – how’s everybody’s family?

Well, so as not to take up more than an hour or three of your time,
I’ll get right to my usual 97-percent correct predictions for the 2008
season.

First, let me say I was saddened by Sean Taylor’s slow recovery from
his thigh wound.  He assures me that he’ll be ready for next season.
He’s cut his tokes down to 40 a day and the vodka to just two liters.

Oh, and he bought three new Glocks, just in case!

And let’s not forget that your favorite owner’s Six Flags stock can be
had for $1.07 as of this morning.  A steal, folks!  It’s gonna take
off, especially with the new corporate-wide visitor "no-stab
guarantee".

Speaking of owner, the fact that Snyder still owns the Skins allows me
to maintain the hold on my prediction, now 7 years old – that the
Redskins will never reach the Super Bowl as long as Cerrato’s butt-
buddy still owns the club.

Cerrato, who has had a long and notable career as a – what the fuck IS
he? – as a, uh, assistant -- is the second reason the Skins will be
lucky to avoid making this the 13th season (since The Ol’ Washer
Woman’s’ first administration) in which the team has NOT made the
playoffs!

Bottom feeders forever.

And thanks to Snydo and Vinny, the team has improved … absolutely
NOWHERE.

The woeful wide receiving corps -- whose practitioners last year made
more than $17-million to score three
times -- is back.  Save for Brandon Lloyd, who took off with $8
million in guaranteed money -- for catching four passes!  Or was it
three?

So what did your stalwart draft experts do?   Misfire, again, by
signing three bum receivers out of college, who by virtue of lack of
size, skill and speed, will never contribute.  But they’ll use
whatever speed they have to take that money, run, and not look back!
(We hope, huh?)

Offensive line?   No help, and two vets are nearing the bench if not
their rocking chairs.

Defense?  Jason Taylor, an old and injured 33, will never make it
through the season.   Bad move signing this self-promoting has-been.
The rest of the injury-plagued “unit” proved its weakness in the last
two pre-season games, so nothing to add in that respect.

Of course, we said four years ago that Jambo lacks the mobility,
fluidity, and mental agility to function as a starting NFL QB.   But
with no pass protection, neither Colt nor Todd can survive for long.
Scoring will again be a problem, and the running backs are back, a
year older, with all the increased fumbling which age and wear
portend.

Only at tight end do the Skins seem set, but simple actuarial
guesswork tells us that Cooley is due for a serious injury ... maybe
this year.

All of this conjecture equates ineluctably to a season of missed
playoffs and a record of between 8-8 and 6-10.
Sorry, but that’s the price Skins’ fans have to continue to pay for
Daniel Snyder and Vinny Cerrato.

But, hey, the Danny got rid of those pesky fan shuttle busses and has
increased parking, ticket and concession prices across the boards.

A lot to like there.
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"Since 2000, including an 8-8 season when Cerrato was not with the
team, the Redskins are 23rd in the NFL in victories with 58."

"There remain skeptics around the league who maintain Snyder, despite
his protestations to the contrary, still makes every major decision
and that Cerrato is more of a caretaker."

"Thus far, Cerrato's first solo draft has not provided much benefit."

"This is the first time you can really put everything on Vinny,
beginning right now," said one longtime NFL executive who asked that
his name not be used because he must deal with Cerrato in the future.
"It's evident to every football man in the National Football League
that the Vinny Cerrato era has begun. Whether it works or not -- and a
lot of people are wondering if it can work -- right now you can
honestly say he's in charge."

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"Meet the New Boss"

"After Years in the Shadows and Amid Lingering Skepticism, Vinny
Cerrato Is Firmly in Charge of the Redskins"

By Jason Reid and Jason La Canfora
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, September 4, 2008; E01


He has spent almost all of his career in the safety of the shadows
cast by much more powerful and accomplished football men: Lou Holtz,
George Seifert, Joe Gibbs. Even when briefly out of the game, working
for ESPN, he was hidden away on the lowest rung of the network's
enormous cast of NFL observers.

But now Vinny Cerrato is front and center, no longer dismissed as
merely a racquetball partner for Washington Redskins owner Daniel
Snyder. Not after Gibbs left, Snyder gave Cerrato the fanciful title
of executive vice president of football operations, Gregg Williams was
sent packing and Jim Zorn was hired. Not after Cerrato oversaw a
stunningly quiet free agency period and then pounced to grab defensive
end Jason Taylor from the Miami Dolphins in August.

Cerrato is running the Redskins. And as much as the story line of the
season, which begins tonight against the New York Giants, will be
about how Zorn fares in his rookie year as head coach and the
continued development of quarterback Jason Campbell, it will also be
about Cerrato and a franchise virtually remade under his watch.

"This is the first time you can really put everything on Vinny,
beginning right now," said one longtime NFL executive who asked that
his name not be used because he must deal with Cerrato in the future.
"It's evident to every football man in the National Football League
that the Vinny Cerrato era has begun. Whether it works or not -- and a
lot of people are wondering if it can work -- right now you can
honestly say he's in charge. In the past, he's always been under the
radar, and he could blame Dan or blame a coach, but he can no longer
do that. It's his team now."

There remain skeptics around the league who maintain Snyder, despite
his protestations to the contrary, still makes every major decision
and that Cerrato is more of a caretaker. But direct evidence of that
is hard to find. Cerrato is so accustomed to criticism over his
relationship with Snyder that he has developed almost a pat rebuttal
to such thinking.

"I know what people say: 'He only has a job because he's the owner's
friend,' but if you look at the whole history, there's been success,"
Cerrato said in one of a series of interviews that began last spring.
"Does it still bother me? Sure, it bothers me . . . but the people
that I've worked with respect the work that I've done. It's more
important to me that Dan Snyder thinks I deserve [the promotion]
because of the work I've done."


[cont. -- read the rest, if you can stomach it]


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR200809030
3970.html

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