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Snyder, Cerrato, Zorn Meet the Press
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From the pre-draft press conference featuring Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, executive vice-president Vinny Cerrato and Coach Jim Zorn:

Cerrato: "There's a possibility we'll do three things on Saturday: trade up, stay back or stay the same [at 13]. ... It's a decent draft. Probably not as good as last year but there's quality there. I think there's depth throughout the draft."

Cerrato: "At 13, there'll be a good football player. There'll be someone who could come in and start at 13."

Cerrato: "When you're sitting at 13 you're kind of reacting to what happens the first 12. If something crazy happens, you react to that. Kind of like last year. We really didn't know and Atlanta called at the last minute. You don't know until you're on the clock."

Cerrato on the possibility of moving into the top five for a shot at a marquee qb: "I think anything is possible. It's just what you're willing to give up."

Zorn: "From my perspective, I'm not talking different things to different people. With Jason [Campbell], we are going full speed. He is being handled every bit like he's our starting quarterback in word and deed."

Zorn on the possibility of selecting a defensive player: "Every indication is that Phillip Daniels is going to fully recover and be part of our program this year. That doesn't mean that if someone is sitting out there glaring" that you wouldn't select him.

Zorn on evaluating USC QB Mark Sanchez: "I'd rather wait to talk about any player evaluation I might have on a guy who's not even on our roster."

Cerrato on having only one pick in the first 79 because they traded their second-round pick for defensive end Jason Taylor: "It is what it is. We made a trade last year with our second-round pick. We wish Jason [Taylor] would have stayed healthy, but it is what it is."

Snyder on moving up or down: "In terms of willingness to go up or down in the draft, we're always flexible. We'll have to see what happens Saturday."

Snyder on the draft process: "You just have to be patient. It takes a long time to get there [to complete the draft process]. We do all this work and then it's hurry up and wait."

Zorn on Sanchez's scant starting experience: "I think it's a factor in his positioning, if you will. That's why we do take a lot of time to study each player."

Snyder: "There are players every year that are the consensus 'hot guy' with the media and throughout the league, but really what interests me more is the work of the scouts and coaches and Vinny's group that they put in throughout the year than just the hot guy."

And, lastly, with all the major moves Snyder has made (signing Albert Haynesworth, DeAngelo Hall and Derrick Dockery), he views this draft as the final piece of the offseason improvement plan: "Obviously, we were disappointed with some of our late-season games last year. We got close [to the playoffs]. We got beaten up with some of the injuries, but thats no excuse. I look forward to us improving. We're trying to do what we can to win. I'm always going to be aggressive. I didn't buy the team as an investment. I'm trying to win Super Bowls."



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Date: Apr 22 3:37 PM, 2009
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KB24 wrote:
Cerrato: "There's a possibility we'll do three things on Saturday: trade up, stay back or stay the same

You heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen!!

On one hand, I wouldn't expect much real info from this sort of event.

Other the other hand, if we were indeed "smoke screening", I would.

We got absolutely nothing.



-- Edited by Aston on Wednesday 22nd of April 2009 03:39:55 PM

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Anyone else slightly (or more than slightly) concerned/disturbed about Snyder's participation in this press conference? He didn't just stand there supporting his employees, either. He made actual football/team direction-related comments:

Snyder on moving up or down: "In terms of willingness to go up or down in the draft, we're always flexible. We'll have to see what happens Saturday."

Don't mean to overreact to it, but I really get the sense that Snyder is moving toward taking on a greater role than ever before in the football operations of the team.

I think he likes the Cowboys' model and admires Jerry Jones tremendously, but feels he can do a better job with the football stuff than Jerry does. Which may be true to some degree, if Snyder leans heavily on the right people. But I don't think it's an effective model.

Maybe he feels he's been around the league long enough now that he's got this thing figured out.

-- Edited by Larry Brown #43 on Wednesday 22nd of April 2009 03:46:22 PM

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Larry Brown #43 wrote:

Maybe he feels he's been around the league long enough now that he's got this thing figured out.

Well, he has all of the Super Bowl trophies he's helped win since he got here to back those thoughts up.

I don't understand why they even bother to do a pre-draft press conference. Do other teams do stuff like this?

 



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I especially loved Vinny's statement about the #13 spot:  "There's a possibility we'll do three things on Saturday: trade up, stay back or stay the same [at 13]."  

With that in-depth analysis, I don't see how we can go wrong!   

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I'm going to go ahead and say it ... I can flat guarantee that if any one of us had owned an NFL team for 10 years, and been involved in its operation on a daily basis for that entire time, we'd feel we were qualified to at least be in the room where football decisions were made.

I think we forget---Dan Snyder is not just a guy off the street. Not anymore. For better or for worse, he's been elbow-deep in pro football for a decade. Doesn't make him an expert, no, but it makes him a whole lot more qualified to be in that room than just about everyone criticizing him for it.

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Om wrote:

I'm going to go ahead and say it ... I can flat guarantee that if any one of us had owned an NFL team for 10 years, and been involved in its operation on a daily basis for that entire time, we'd feel we were qualified to at least be in the room where football decisions were made.

I think we forget---Dan Snyder is not just a guy off the street. Not anymore. For better or for worse, he's been elbow-deep in pro football for a decade. Doesn't make him an expert, no, but it makes him a whole lot more qualified to be in that room than just about everyone criticizing him for it.


Mark, I don't have a problem with him being in the room, or even being involved necessarily. But the point I'm trying to make is, I sense that he's moing toward greater involvement, with an eye toward eventually becoming The Guy. Maybe I'm wrong and that'll never happen.

But I feel he has always admired Jerry Jones and would like to emulate Jones' model of running his team. And just maybe he's starting to feel as though he could do a better job of running the team than the people he has hired.

 



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Om wrote:

I think we forget---Dan Snyder is not just a guy off the street. Not anymore. For better or for worse, he's been elbow-deep in pro football for a decade. Doesn't make him an expert, no, but it makes him a whole lot more qualified to be in that room than just about everyone criticizing him for it.

I agree wholeheartedly Mark. Snyder is equally as qualified as Matt Millen to run an NFL franchise. smile

 



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I'm not saying I like it, mind you. My preference would have been to have him bite his lip and bring a guy like Parcells here and handed him the keys like the Dolphins did. No one understands the concept of building from the inside out and bottom up like the Tuna. But that's not Snyder's style----he's like a lot of people would be, and I can't say in his shoes I wouldn't be the same. He bought the team of his youth, and has spent 10 years learning the ropes. I wonder how many of us can say we wouldn't be doing exactly the same thing he is.



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Om wrote:
I think we forget---Dan Snyder is not just a guy off the street. Not anymore. For better or for worse, he's been elbow-deep in pro football for a decade. Doesn't make him an expert, no, but it makes him a whole lot more qualified to be in that room than just about everyone criticizing him for it.
Gotta disagree sir.  Simply putting in the time does not make a person qualified for anything.  You have to truly learn something in that time.  Honestly evaluate your mistakes which means admitting that you made on in the first place.  I know many people with lots of time in on their jobs who have never progressed past the basic understanding of what is going on.  Some folks just don't have it.  Period.

Now, I say that understanding that Dan built a multi-million business from the ground up which sort of puts him in a different league than most average grunts.  However, it was completely unrelated to football.  Some guys can switch subjects without missing much and be successful.  Others can't.  I have seen a lot of very successful computer guys come into our company only to fail miserably because they can't learn and can't get over the belief that they know more about what we do than we do or than they think they do.

Ego gets seriously in the way with people at this level.  If you want another example just look at Dallas.  Same sort of thing, just taken to the nth degree.  Notice that both these men are the absolute best at making money with their francises.  Tells me they have not lost "it" when comes to busines.  But the fact that neither team is making much progress on the field tells me that maybe the "it" they have has little to do with football.

Just sayin'.  With these thoughts a  buck you can get some coffee on the way to work tomorrow...

 



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Just a thought, but if Dan after 10 years of living breathing and running a Pro Team, with 4 years of guidance from a Hall of Fame coach doesn't earn him the right to say a couple words prior to the draft....



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Yusuf06 wrote:

Om wrote:

I think we forget---Dan Snyder is not just a guy off the street. Not anymore. For better or for worse, he's been elbow-deep in pro football for a decade. Doesn't make him an expert, no, but it makes him a whole lot more qualified to be in that room than just about everyone criticizing him for it.

I agree wholeheartedly Mark. Snyder is equally as qualified as Matt Millen to run an NFL franchise. smile

 


LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

 



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