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Redskins say Zorn won't be fired this season Date published: 10/23/2009
By Rich Campbell The Free Lance-Star ASHBURN—Jim Zorn will be the Washington Redskins’ head coach for the rest of the season, according to executive vice president of football operations Vinny Cerrato, who made the announcement on his radio show on ESPN980-AM this morning. “Let me start by making a few things very perfectly clear: Jim Zorn is the head coach of the Washington Redskins, and will be for the rest of this season, and hopefully into the future,” Cerrato said. The announcement ended weeks of silence from the front office amid intense speculation about Zorn’s job security, which had increased steadily since the Redskins (2-4) barely beat the woeful St. Louis Rams in Week 2. Cerrato also expressed his frustration with the Redskins’ lack of production on offense, chastised media speculation about Zorn’s job security, explained team owner Daniel Snyder’s silence about Zorn and the team’s play and disparaged the comments made by Steve Largent, Zorn’s best friend, about the Redskins’ front office during the week. “There’s been a lot of false rumors, media speculation, unnamed sources out there all the time,” Cerrato said. “I hired Jim, along with Dan Snyder. And obviously—obviously—we’re all very disappointed by the season performance thus far. In fact, Dan constantly talks about how disappointed he is for the fans. And we've got great fans. We feel the frustration for the fans, and we need the fans big-time Monday night [against Philadelphia]. We want to entertain them. We want to make them proud.” Zorn was not immediately available to comment. The Redskins are 10-12 during his tenure and only 4-10 dating from the second half of last season. “The team is tight, the relationships are tight, and we're just trying to prepare to win a game Monday night and excite the fans and get the fans back excited about this football team,” Cerrato said.
... is that there isn't anybody out there right now who'd want to work for Dan Snyder. Snyder is such a joke. I feel sorry for Zorn working with such a jerk of an owner.
to judge talent or make a decent draft, or learn from their mistakes about always going after the flashiest free agents instead of putting a plan in place to build and maintain a team. Some GMs never figure out that their job is to support their coach by getting talent to plug KNOWN weaknesses - like an old and oft injured O line - instead of shoring up a top 5 defense.
Cerrato has to be the luckiest man in football. Has anyone hung in longer while failing so miserably. Is he a Dallas plant?
you cant take away the coach's responsibilities and expect the team to still respect him as a leader...they should just fire him. other teams have their off coordinator call the plays which is fine but you cant take them away from him as a punishment, treat him like a little kid and expect a better result. i dont think the team wants to play for him, i wouldnt want to play for this team either...garbage. boycott...if you stop paying snyder, he will sell the team and maybe the skins will stand a chance
Can't believe a word that guy says. Still a better than 50/50 chance Zorn is fired after Monday night. To say he's staying doesn't mean squat and doesn't keep people from asking the question over and over. He had a radio show obligation, he had to address it, so he had to say this. Means nothing.
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