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2008 and 2009. Years to forget
W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...hire-jim-zorn/
2008 and 2009. Years to forget
Last edited by Yeen80; January-29th-2013 at 12:46 PM.
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Re: W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
If that is the case, I'm glad he hired Jim Zorn.
Re: W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
Every redskins fans last words.Originally Posted by santana_4_prez
Re: W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
Only we could have a coaching search as bizarre as the one for Zorn
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Re: W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
You know what ... and you guys tell me if I'm not remembering this correclty, but for as ****ed up as the coaching search circus was for Zorn ... was it not scrutized as much as it should have been?
I just think for the level of ridiculousness that it reached, the media really didn't hammer the Skins and Danny appropriately.
Re: W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
Probably because we just came off of a season in which we made the playoffs. If we'd had another losing season before that weird ass coaching search, I'm sure it would've been a lot worse.
Last edited by Mr. Sinister; January-29th-2013 at 04:34 PM.
Re: W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
All of that is old news.
Re: W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
Imagine getting hired to an offensive coaching position, then getting upgraded to head coach within weeks. His first 8 games were one's to remember, and everything else was a complete disaster.
But Clinton Portis was MVP like for those first 8.
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Re: W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
Dan still owes us Redskins fans for those 2 years of hell with Zorn. And the 2 years of embarrassment with Spurrier.
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Re: W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
This read makes Dan Snyder look like an idiot, if we didn't already know. His word choice is so poor, and some of his statements are pure irony.
He says, Marty Shot. Would still be head coach if he wasn't trying to do it all. Well isn't Mike 'doing it all' right now? Lol... I haven't even finished reading this but Dan really needs to either avoid the media or start being more honest.
Re: W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
No, Mike isn't 'doing it all'. Let us not reduce Bruce Allen to being a puppet of Shanahan. He's very much Snyder's choice to run the football operations. While Shanahan does have a lot of input in the formation of the roster, I don't think he remotely 'does it all', nor do I think he wants to, either.
As for Zorn, while I respect admitting that hiring Zorn was a mistake, I don't think that excuses him with what happened with Zorn in his last year. No matter what you thought of him, he didn't deserve that crap. That's really the reason why Vinny should have been fired.
Re: W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
/Burt Reynolds laugh
---------- Post added January-29th-2013 at 05:03 PM ----------
I think it was the message that the failures sent. Danny does not like to look foolish.
Spurrier was just a good old fashioned coaching failure. No one criticized the hiring process. Certainly, no one criticized the hire. Spurrier was seen as some kind of coaching savant and the NFL had been trying to pull him away from Florida for years. Just the act of hiring Spurrier was a success for Danny.
And most people thought Spurrier would win simply because he always won. The failure to win fell on Spurrier (who was revealed to be a pretty big flake), not Danny.
The Zorn hire was seen as a joke from the start. Danny went way way way out on a limb there. And when it failed, everyone pointed the finger at Danny, not Zorn. Zorn is a position coach who never was even thought of as a possible coordinator. Danny was convinced there was genius there. And looked like a total amateur in the end.
Last edited by Lombardi's_kid_brother; January-29th-2013 at 02:58 PM.
Re: W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
Ok, let me put it this way: there is a difference between a head coach forming a FO that the owner has little say in and one where he had a lot of say. Bruce Allen was hired separate from Shanahan, and while the hire was intended to go hand-in-hand with Shanahan, Allen is still Snyder's guy. Snyder didn't have any of that with Marty.
The only reason why Snyder would be convinced of that would be because Vinny sold him on it. Zorn is so left-field for Snyder's typical head coaching decisions that it is hard to come to any conclusion other than it had to be Vinny's guy. Really, Snyder's first choices always seemed to be experienced head coaches, even with Spurrier. Fassel sounded a lot more like a typical Snyder hire than Zorn.The Zorn hire was seen as a joke from the start. Danny went way way way out on a limb there. And when it failed, everyone pointed the finger at Danny, not Zorn. Zorn is a position coach who never was even thought of as a possible coordinator. Danny was convinced there was genius there. And looked like a total amateur in the end.
Re: W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
Longshot, so true! I remember being mad at the way they treated Jim Zorn. He may not have been a great head coach, but he really deserved better than what he got in his last year. The look of him on the sideline after they brought in the Bingo Announcer (Sherm Smith) to be the play caller, remember that? It was so sad to watch a nice guy (and he was truly a nice guy) who would say nothing against the organization (even after he was canned) marching up a down the sidelines with nothing to do but look official in a headset.
Man - those were some dark days... On to brighter ones.
Re: W.P.: Dan Snyder says he fired Vinny Cerrato for letting him hire Jim Zorn(M.E.T.)
I think he means schotty didn't have the personnel guy we have in Bruce Allen.
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