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Fresh Meat For Snyder: Jim Zorn

By oddJoe ⋅ February 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

After holding Redskins fans ~~hostage~~ in suspense for over a month, Dan Snyder’s private plane made one last trip and finally delivered a new head coach: Jim Zorn.

Oh, well obviously Jim Zorn would get the job, I mean heck he was at the top of everyone’s short list, right? Or to put it another way, “Whattheheyhowho!?”

To his credit, the former Seahawks quarterbacks coach survived perhaps the most rigorous interviewing process ever seen in the National Football League — or maybe any sports league — so he must have something going on. Snyder spoke to like 1,000 different candidates in a casting call that rivaled American Idol in its size and scope.

But is Zorn the marquee name to continue the legacy of Joe Gibbs? What about Jim Fassel or Steve Mariucci, guys with a track record we could tear apart and analyze, poke holes in and ridicule. Zorn? It doesn’t seem like the sort of thing Snyder would do. It seems too . . . reasonable is the word I’m looking for.

This is a disturbing development. What fun is it going to be if Dan Snyder starts running the Redskins like a professional football franchise instead of a real-life fantasy team? Hopefully he trades all his first-day draft picks to the Cardinals for Matt Leinart.