The next four games may determine Zorn's fate.

You know what would be just great? Name Stan Hixon interim head coach :)

YES! I am all for this. It would be an AWESOME move!

And if you think I am kidding you are wrong. Why? Why would I want Hixon as head coach? It's really very very simple.

IF Hixon is HC, then we HAVE to hire a new WR coach (even as a figurehead) and then when Hixon is fired at the end of the season, we would need a new WR coach!

Excellent plan Smoot!

If Zorn were to be fired at the bye week, I would expect there to be an interim coach for the rest of the season.

Yeah, Dan Snyder. :)

With our schedule in the next month, if we can't win any games...Snyder really couldn't be much worse.

I know a number of people have expressed opinions that Zorn has only coached 19 games and the thought of firing him after such a short period of time would be ridiculous and reflect impatience on Snyders part. They argue that Coaches need a minimum of 2, and sometimes 3, years to fully implement their systems and start succeeding. I've seen Belichek sited as an example of this, how it took him many years, coaching several teams, before he finally became the greatest coach in the NFL.

However, there's a fatal flaw in that whole line of reasoning. Generally, when a coaching change is made, its because a team is piss-poor awful and the previous HC has been fired. The personnel is weak, and the team needs to be completely rebuilt from the ground up. So yeah, its going to take a coach 2-3 years to turn it around.

But Jim Zorn inherited a team that made the playoffs in 2 of the previous 3 years. In my estimation, the first 8 games, when we went 6-2, had more to do with the carry-over from 2007 than anything else. AFter that, the whole team started to fall apart, and its continuing to fall apart now. Zorn has won 3 of his last 11 games, including losing to arguably the 3rd worst team in the history of the NFL.

Now, i'm not saying Zorn should just be fired if he continues to fail. Theres certainly no one on the staff who could come in and replace him. However, if he doesnt turn things around by the bye week, and Shanahan or Holmgren is willing to come in and coach the rest of the season, then Zorn should be fired, followed shortly by Cerrato.

Next four with the caveat that if he loses to Tampa he probably doesn't make the trip to Carolina...