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Vinny Cerrato talks Combine Strategy

Crazy eyes spoke with the NFL Network this week answering several questions regarding how he goes about analyzing college players. From Vinny's answers, I don't know why the Skins even bother showing up at the Combine.

You got to go by what the guy does on film. Bottom line is you are gonna play football. You're not  gonna go out there in shorts and t-shirts and run around in underwear. Production on tape is the most critical thing.

[In the combine], Fred Davis dropped every ball. But studying tape, he never dropped a ball. Fred blamed it on the lighting.

Dear Lord. So I guess this means anytime the Skins play an opponent indoors, we should make Fred inactive? Two other notables from the interview, Vinny likes to sniff A LOT. SNIFF SNIFF. Not sure what that is about. The other observation is every example he uses for the drills is a WR. 

http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d80ec9851

 

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So, what this post implies is that you’re not happy with that strategy? To evaluate players based on actually playing the game in uncontrolled environments?

It’s one thing to be critical of Vinny for some of the bonehead moves he’s made, but this is just nitpicking.

by PatrickGray on Feb 18, 2009 1:43 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Yea

I’d agree it’s nit-picking. But Vinny is like that girlfriend that has pissed me off so many times that I find fault in everything….yet breaking up w/ her doesn’t seem to be in the future.

by KevinE on Feb 18, 2009 2:09 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Does anyone know how Malcolm Kelly performed in the combine last year? By all accounts, he was a great college player. But, we’ve also heard that he had a fairly obvious and serious knee injury. How was that taken into account by the Redskins’ evaluators in general and Cerrato in particular?

Anyone have the combine numbrs on Devin Thomas?

The quote about Davis is shocking. Cerrato is really using a player who barely saw the field last year as a reference point for how he evaluates talent. Comments like that are startlingly obtuse. Does he really believe that Fred Davis can be classified, at this point anyway, as a good selection?

by artmonk4ever on Feb 18, 2009 3:24 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Vinny is Vinny

And while he again sounded like an idiot, once you cleared the stupidity what he had to say made sense. Watching game film of a player is more important than what they can accomplish in one week while being evaluated.
I don’t get all the “draft bust” talk about Thomas, Kelly and Davis, these guys were the drafted in the second round, came to camp unprepared for an NFL season, while non have shown anything significant on the field I will not regard them as poor picks until after the 2009 and possibly 2010 seasons.
The Redskins are blasted about letting Superbowl champ Ryan Clark leave, but before he was a Redskins he was released by the Giants, players don’t come out and become successes immediatly in the NFL all the time. If Thomas and Kelly both develop and stay healthy it will be a great draft, even if only one develops into a number 1 reciever the 2008 draft will be viewed as succesful.
I believe the Redskins will do everything possible to get out of the 13th spot for more draft picks, which also equates to better salaries for players who could become stars. How do the jets feel about the 15M they gave to Vernon in 2008, he could become a good player but the 15M upfront should have meant he was a great player in 2008…Thomas and Kelly as 2nd round picks have a least the 2009 season before we call them busts…

by dr WNC on Feb 18, 2009 7:38 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

I'm willing to bet...

that Ryan Clark didn’t show up “underprepared for an NFL season”….

by artmonk4ever on Feb 19, 2009 10:20 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Malcolm and Devin?

Not draft busts. Not yet. Fred Davis? Yeah. Draft bust.

We are truly in the presense of greatness here…-- unnamedDBacksfan

by DbacksSkins on Feb 23, 2009 9:48 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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