Zorn "probably the worst NFL hire of all time"??

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I'm just wondering what major issues people had with the coaching search. Was it how long it took? Did they interview too many candiates or not enough?

Personally I think too many people got wrapped up in all the speculation and the misguided info we were receiving and took that stuff as fact.

We certainly can't say the process wasn't thorough. It probably wasn't a conventional process, but at the same time we are so keyed in on the Skins that I think everything in a situation like this is magnified. And of course when you are dealing with a high profile team and owner, that certainly doesn't help matters. I doubt that if Buffalo went through something similar it would have drawn the same amount of national attention.

I think it was a lot of things with the catalyst being that GW wasnt hired. IMO - It was a held as an universal truth among fans that GW was going to be hired. Not only hired but hired quickly. The only delay being - "who will be the minority interview?". Then mystification as to why GW wasn't hired quickly. Then, God forbid, "Fassel? FASSEL? Instead of motivator/kick ass coach GW, we're getting fish faced, 'my superbowl team devolved into an undisciplined mass', Fassell? WTF are you thinking Danny boy???"

Once the shock of "it's not going to be GW" wore off, the cloak and dagger approach to the hiring just stoked the coals.

On top of ALL that - the habitual little lies of the front office ("Zorn was our first choice" righhhhhtttt) just pissed people off.

Look, I wanted GW. I had come around to Fassell and am cautiously optimistic about Zorn. But DS's cloak and dagger approach to the whole thing only brings down and intensifies the anti-DS crowd.

I have always been one who believed that honesty and appropriate disclosure are the best ways to deflect criticism - that and the balls to admit, openly, "I f***** up." DS's approach is one of aloof stonewalling and petty dishonesty (or, with a positive spin, "plausible deniabilty").

It's his toy, I only pay to support it (fool that I am), and, if that's how he wants to play it, well, then he will always invite criticism.