But a very good one. Jim Zorn has to be the dumbest move in a very long time. I like Wade and I’m pretty sure we could have found somebody better. Zorn is an absolute joke.

“HIP-HIP HOORAY!”…Please.

Ken says:
October 9th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

Can we just start calling this guy Timmy, as in Timmy from South Park, because that’s exactly what he sounds like now. A complete retard. Zorn looks like a genius hire right now. He’s molded Jason Campbell into a great QB, he’s mixed his west coast offense with Washington’s traditional running game better than anyone could have imagined, and he had created a great atmosphere in Washington that all of the players love. Winning back to back road games at Dallas and Philly shows that he can get it done in big games. He was a great hire. Snyder and Cerrato knew exactly what they’re doing.

Tim’s a Moron says:
November 14th, 2008 at 11:42 pm

Wow, does Tim pick stocks, too? Worst hire ever, huh? Tim, I think the ol’ credibility is not looking too good right about now. Perhaps being a columnist is not for you.

one of the worst HC hires of all time….Ray Handley NYG…I know he was an internal hire but he was a TOOL. Actually I think Zorn is bad but they havent been that bad under him. Not like the Lions or Raiders recently

It was not suprising that the 1st wave of e-mails that first came out were lashing out against the writer; they were skins fans and took offense that someone took a shot at their new coach when he had not even coached one game yet. I find it completely natural fandom reaction to this article; how else could they react. Did anyone as a skins fan really think the season was over before it even started? If I had to put the Zorn hire into a movie context I would choose “the sixth sense” with skin fans as Bruce Willis’ character.

The hiring of Zorn is the begining scene where he gets shot, then everything fades out and everything seems normal but something is off; his life is not quite right, aka Zorn has no real coaching chops as a coordinator let alone HC and gets the team colors wrong on his 1st press conference. Then glimmer of hope appears, in the movie it is the young boy who helps him try to unravel what went wrong before he was shot. The boy and the hope is aka the 6-2 start to the season. The movie climaxes with the character’s realization that he was really dead, aka the skins 3-5 finish out of playoff contention. The whole story wraps up with the fact that the skins playoff hopes were dead when they hired Zorn they just didn’t know it until it was too late. Now this season they know that they are a walking corpse, stumbling around as an easy target for opportunistic teams and opportunistic FA (during the offseason).

I remember the dmn media was ready to flog WP because he rested the players an additional day and the conventional thinking was that they should have practiced (a point of pure hyperbole than actual fact). Then dallas goes into DC and takes the win, sealing it with a MBIII fueled 6 minute drive where the oline finished off what was left of the skins. I think it is nice to know that if dallas has the lead this year they should be able to duplicate this success against most teams.