Peter King on Zorn Hire

A better team would have been Fassel, experienced in the daily calamities of life in the NFC East and Zorn. That would have been better than a rookie coach and whomever Zorn installs as his quarterback and offensive mentors.
That is basically saying he hired the wrong guy and I'd say that WTF does he know. He MAY be right but MAYBE Zorn ends up being the greatest coach in the history of the league. SOmehow I think it'll be somewhere in the middle. Agian I didn't say I disagreed I am simply tired of knee-jerk reactions to the FO moves of this team. No one ever talks about the things they do that worked. And they have done plenty.

Peter King is a queen...he hates the Redskins and kicks us at every chance he gets. Lemme ask Peter one question: If fossil is so good, why isn't he writing about how Atlanta passed him by? Why didn't Parcells hire him? Maybe it's because snyder saw what everyone else did: Fossil ain't that impressive.

Here's a funny video on peter king the queen: On the RAC: Redskins Appreciation Club, the Humurous Redskins' Fan Site. (http://www.OntheRAC.com)

I like the Zorn hire. Zorn has the fire in his eyes
With all due respect to the threads author, NOBODY outside of Snyder's inner circle REALLY knows the chain of events were, or what motivated them. All the rest is pure speculation as is evidenced from all the relible info and conjecture for the past month. TO my knowldge , none of the established pundits called for Zorn to be the HC.
DS doesn't generally get a fair shake in his Skins decisions, and that may well be the case here.
I for one applaud his efforts, and REFUSAL to bow to media and fan pressure to make a possibly premature decision, to be regretted later.
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That is mostly true but VC was on the radio for 15 minutes talking about the process and a lot of the speculation was pretty right on. JZ was not on the list of HC candidates until after the Spags interview. It sounds as if they were very impressed with him and after the other interviews were done, they decided to re-interview him for the HC position. To hear Vinny and Dan tell the story, after whatever happened with Spags (either they didn't offer the job, or he didn't take it, no one but those guys knows), they called up JZ and asked him if he'd like to interview for the job.

It was actually a very interesting discussion with Vinny and it was refreshing to hear from the FO about the process. However, make no mistake about it, JZ wasn't a HC candidate until after he joined to team as the OC and after the Spags interview.

If Zorn were to turn around the Offense in any kind of significant way he would be outta here in a year or two as a head coach somewhere else and we would have Fassel. I don't mind taking a chance on Zorn at all although I didn't really have a problem with Fassel either. For some reason when I heard Matt Hasselbeck say a few weeks ago that we should have hired Zorn as the head coach I just had a feeling that he might be on to something.

I am basically convinced that most media and a lot of fans will never ever look at something Snyder does and think it was done right when it comes to footbal. I am just so tired of all the complaining and bashing. I don't even care what PK says because I just wont read it. I am just done with the negativism. I am not defending DS but in the end he is obviously damned is does and damned if he doesn't on just about everything.

What if he had hired GW as head coach? Or hired a GM to handle business more effectively and fired Vinny C? I cant stand negativism either, but he brings it on himself.

Actually, I am excited that apparently Jim Fassel was the man barring a large unforseen interruption in the process. Apparently VC and DS were so overwelmed with JZ, they stopped the search, and gave him the job. To me that means he has the "IT"....and we did not settle for what has been termed a "retread".
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What if he had hired GW as head coach? Or hired a GM to handle business more effectively and fired Vinny C? I cant stand negativism either, but he brings it on himself.

Again I didn't disagree but can you actually envision what he could have done that would have made just about everyone say "Gee that is the smart move to make?".

Hirign GW maybe but eventually we all have to ask ourselves why was this guy who is so obsessed with winning(even though he has sucked at it) so turned off by a guy who appears a shoe in for the job. Maybe, just maybe GW wasn't really the right guy for the job. Maybe it was obvious to those who actually know what is going on that it was a disaster waiting to happen.

I am just saying that nowadays most of the criticism towards DS is just criticism for the sake of criticism and usually has little to do with reality and mostly to do with bias and specualtion.

Wheteher he brought it on himself is irrelevant anyways.

I love the Zorn hire. We have an ambitious coach that could be around for years upon years. While I also wouldn't have hated the Fassel hiring, I was certainly most excited about the offensive changes and Zorn. But looking around the league right now, how many very good teams have 'retreads' for coaches as many say. Even Dungy was fired from Tampa.

This is what we need. We have a coach with fire who is somewhat young. Snyder took his time, but I think he made the right choice. He can't hire anyone without criticism. If it were Cowher he's making a splash, if it's Fassel people complain that coordinators were picked first (IMO a decent gripe, but understandable seeing how long it took us to hire a HC.) Etc.

I agree that regardless of the decision he made, Snyder was going to face some criticism. That's the name of the game with him, he's every easy to take shots at, some deserved, some not.

If the redskins hired fassel, PK article would be about how the redskins hired the wrong guy and that Zorn is going to be the next superstar coach.

PK points out that Fassel was fired as OC while his team was 4-2. He forgets to mention that the ravens were last in the league in offense that year and the two previous years.
This man couldn't coach an offense to mediocre success and he is supposed to lead this team?

Give me a break, I would rather take a shot at someone with potential than give someone who has proven to be mediocre another shot.