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Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

See, in my opinion, we're confusing "thorough" with "drawn-out." Yes, it took a long time and there were many candidates interviewed, but the methodology seemed poorly conceived.

First, there's the infamous "cotinuity" spiel at the presser when JG stepped down.

Best laid plans my friend.

Second, GW has had the "next head coach of the Washington Redskins" label for about 2 yrs plus the support of just about every player on the roster as well as the fans.

He only had that label from the fans. If you recall after 2006 he was very much in the dog house for how poorly the defense performed and rumors at that time started leaking out that they weren't so thrilled with the idea of him becoming a HC. The players did respect him an that was a main reason I wanted him but in the end the players play and the owenr owns. it is his team and if he felt GW wasn't the right guy going forward who are we or even the players to say he is wrong.

Third, what's with multiple 12 hr interview sessions? There's thorough and then there's bizarre. Maybe other teams do this but I've just never heard of it.

Ok so you have never heard of it but when trying to find leader who can direct your team and work with you then maybe taking some time to get to know the guy on a more personal level is actually a good idea. I think many are confusing their idea of what an interview is with what actually happened. I am pretty sure they didn't just sit at a table and ask him questions and then listen to responses for 12 hours. They talked a lot about vision, direction and then specifically about plans. For a football team with complicated mechanisms and personell issues 12 hour "interviews" to discuss all aspects seems rather reasonable in my opinion.

Fourth, DS hired his assistants before HC making this a situation that not too many head coaches would want to sign up for.

I'll grant you this but Zorn seemd ok with it so who knows.

Fifth, the fact that this was a PR fiasco, punctuated by the fact that we were all set to hire Fassel but because there was a huge collective "no effing way" from Redskins fans, DS got gun shy. Next, we set our sites on Spags but he took a look at the situation and said "thanks but no thanks."

Well "PR fiasco" is an opinion. Maybe PR overload is better term in my opinion.
And I think you are generally wrong when it comes to why Fassel wasn't hired. He wasn't hired because VC didn't want to hire him. VC is responsible for that and I have no idea why people think DS cares what the fans think. Most fans think DS doesn't care at all what they think so why would this be any different?

6th, after getting shot down by Spags, DS decides to go with Zorn and we're supposed to believe that DS was so blown away by his initial interview that he thought immediately this guy was a head coaching option? If he was that good, why had not one other team had him on their radar? Does Dan just have an eye for coaching talent? I'm skeptical.

Now we're into specualtion. The two sides are that Spags turned them down and that they didn't want Spags. By most reports they enevr offered him a job and honestly does he seem like the kind of hire that they would have exchewed being thorugh with and just offer him a job. It makes a lot mroe sense that they interviewed him and wasn't very impressed. JLC reported as much. In the end I don't know but I know I don't buy at all that he turned them down. Seriously, a newbie co-ordinator whose defense was really only marginal and only because of the d-line? That sounds like someone DS is dying to hire? Count me as a disbeliever.

In the end, the choice came off as a fall back option, imo. If you look solely at the time it took, then yes, it's easy to come to the conclusion that it was a well thought out coaching search. But if you actually look at the various missteps along the way, I don't think that's what it was. I'm not saying this will be a bad hire, as I have absolutely no idea what to expect next year. I am saying that this coaching search served the purpose of worsening the Redskins organization's reputation around the league.

What missteps? And I would argue our reputation around the league is as low as it can go and only will go up when we win a SB anyways so what the hell do we care? Players love playing for us because we pay and that's all that matters.