2006 Point & Laugh at the taterskins thread

[Feva]

taylor got that look that the daughter at the end of 'seed of chucky' had

but you say no to The Terminator.  Good God IGY. 

Yeah IGY... you deserve to be shot if you sat through that entire thing.  The night of the Mayweather/Judah fight, my bro-in-law turned that shtein on... and we couldn't get through 15 minutes of that garbage.

[ice grillin you]

but you say no to The Terminator.  Good God IGY. 

terminator is one of my all time favorites....T2 is hot garbage...it got rid of any semblance of a plot in exchange for some 'neato' special effects so all the comic book teens would rush to the theaters and see it

anyway to compare soc to those is pretty crazy...soc is what it is...a movie so hideously bad that its kinda good...and a nice little vehicle to see some tilly titties

[PhillyPhanInDC]

taterskins personnel chief Cerrato receives contract extension
April 14, 2006
By Clark Judge
CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer

Shortly after reaching the playoffs for the first time since 1999, the Washington taterskins rewarded Vinny Cerrato -- the team's vice president in charge of football operations -- with a two-year extension, league sources said Friday.

The move was made at the NFL's scouting combine in February but has not been announced by the club. Cerrato, who first joined the taterskins in '99, had his contract extended to March 2008, sources said.

Cerrato was unavailable for comment.

The extension, sources said, is an indication of how much Cerrato is valued by owner Daniel Snyder and of how well he works with coach Joe Gibbs. When Gibbs rejoined the taterskins in '04, some league observers assumed he would force out Cerrato, but it never happened. Instead, the two meshed easily, insiders said, and quickly gained an understanding and appreciation for each other.

Cerrato and Gibbs confer on personnel decisions before the club makes a move, and the taterskins made plenty of them in free agency, signing players like Adam Archuleta, Andre Carter, Antwaan Randle El and Todd Collins as well as swinging a deal for wide receiver Brandon Lloyd.

Lloyd was acquired from San Francisco, a club Cerrato should know well. He served as the 49ers' director of college scouting and player personnel director in the 1990s and helped in drafting players like Dana Stubblefield, Ricky Watters, Ted Washington and Bryant Young.

In fact, it was Cerrato who uncovered Terrell Owens in the third round of the '96 draft -- predicting greatness for the guy long before he was named to his first Pro Bowl.

Cerrato was a favorite target of Bay Area critics, who never tired of poking at him for his choice of quarterback Jim Druckenmiller in the first round of the '97 draft. But they forgot to mention that it was Cerrato who helped the club maneuver to take Young in the first round of the '94 draft -- a lottery where he found Pro Bowl linebacker Lee Woodall in the sixth round.

It was also Cerrato who found safety Lance Schulters in the fourth round of the '98 draft. Schulters, an unrestricted free agent who played last year with Miami, was a Pro Bowl starter.

Cerrato helped find three more Pro Bowlers in the '98 draft -- defensive back R.W. McQuarters, now with the New York Giants; fullback Fred Beasley from Miami; and center Jeremy Newberry.

Cerrato was hired by Washington in '99 and in his first two years he was instrumental in the team's acquisitions of Deion Sanders, Bruce Smith, Irving Fryar and Mark Carrier. Fired when Marty Schottenheimer took over as head coach in 2001, Cerrato returned a year later as the team's director of player personnel and was named vice president of football operations a year later.

As long as this clown has a job.....we'll be able to keep pointing and laughing the taterskins.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I like how they point to his draft prowess with the 49ers.  Nice to see that the thing he's best at is what he barely even has to think about anymore, as he works for a team that prefers to trade their draft picks away.

For Jason Campbell.   

[Bigskinbauer]

more on how the skins are beasts on all things cap.  Like what was said about brunell before he restructured, he was never going to see the money we spent on him.  The only question is why do players agree to this??  It must some kind of pride issue or they are crazy enough to think that we are going to keep them for all those years.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/peter_king/04/17/mmqb.0417/index.html

2. Now we know how the taterskins play Houdini with the cap every year.
I hear it every winter -- from editors, readers, people in line at Starbucks. (True story: I got asked at an Orlando Starbucks during the league meetings how the taterskins were able to sign 10 guys to gigantic contracts every year.) The answer: They don't. It's 70 percent funny money. Take the case of linebacker Andre Carter, signed to a reported seven-year, $32.5 million contract on March 15. It's more accurately a one-year, $5.85 million deal, or a two-year, $10.18 million contract, or a three-year, $13.5 million deal. See, the taterskins sign players to long deals, but the contracts are back-loaded, meaning the players would get most of the money in the final years of the contracts, if they get the money at all. And if Carter turns out to be the defensive force the taterskins hope he'll be, they'll almost certainly let him play the first two years, then re-do the deal before the fat money kicks in. Specifically, in Carter's case, he has two major slices of money he may never see: $13.4 million, combined, in five separate roster bonuses to be earned if he's on the roster in 2008, '09, '10, '11 and '12; and salaries totaling $8.9 million between 2008 and 2012. Collectively, that's $22.3 million of $32 million he may never see. Now the other question you have is this: Won't the taterskins get killed on the salary cap if they release Carter after, say, two years? The answer is not really, because the only part of his contract that's guaranteed is the signing bonus, which is $5 million.


Like gibbs says, all teams can do what the skins are doing.  They just choose not to.
Please o please remind me when cap hell hits.

[General_Failure]

I'm glad it's workin' out so well for you guys. That Superbowl Division playoff win was huuuuge.

[phattymatty]

I was looking back at some old draft info and came across this:

With the 4th pick of the 1992 draft, the taterskins choose: WR Desmond Howard, Michigan

With the 3rd pick of the 1994 draft, the taterskins choose:  QB Heath Schuler, Tennessee

With the 4th pick of the 1995 draft, the taterskins choose: WR Michael Westbrook, Colorado

That's just quality drafting right there.

[phattymatty]

Like gibbs says, all teams can do what the skins are doing.  They just choose not to.
Please o please remind me when cap hell hits.

It's amazing you're still talking about this when no one else here has since the new deal went into place.  I guess that makes sense since the draft is not a particularly high point for Skins fans.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

We're supposed to have been unaware that the skins are actually severely backloading their deals and that the players never see a lot of the money in their contract?  Um... ok.  I don't think there's one Eagles fan that didn't already know that.  I find it really funny that you skins fans think it's some sort of revelation.

[Feva]

Wow.. and this "revolutionary" way of managing the salary cap has brought you 1 winning season this century.  Nice.

[Catapult]

Wow.. and this "revolutionary" way of managing the salary cap has brought you 1 winning season this century.  Nice.

Get Cerrato!

Wait...

[MDS]

The pick that the Broncos got for Jason Campbell has been traded to San Fran for a 2nd and a 3rd.

[mooby]

I was looking back at some old draft info and came across this:

With the 4th pick of the 1992 draft, the taterskins choose: WR Desmond Howard, Michigan

With the 3rd pick of the 1994 draft, the taterskins choose:  QB Heath Schuler, Tennessee

With the 4th pick of the 1995 draft, the taterskins choose: WR Michael Westbrook, Colorado

That's just quality drafting right there.

omg!11! You just discovered we made 3 bad selections out of the thousands of draft picks we've probably had!!111!! Whatever shall us poor stupid Deadskins fans do?

[General_Failure]

I seriously doubt the taterskins have had thousands of draft selections.

[Feva]

Whatever shall us poor stupid Deadskins fans do?

Die.