I had an email exchange with a friend last night about the fact that former Washington Redskins head coach Jim Zorn now is working for Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh. Both coaches were hired in 2008 despite lacking experience as a head coach or as an offensive or defensive coordinator. They both started off [...]
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Report: Zorn fired on return to Redskins Park
According to a tweet by Lindsay Czarniak of NBC 4, the Redskins fired Jim Zorn upon the team’s return from Redskins Park. She cited a team source as the basis for the report.
More as it becomes available.
Update: Per my colleagues at CSN Washington, Zorn left Redskins Park at 4:45 AM, escorted by team security. The [...]
Coach replacement process off to a bad start
Jerry Gray press availability 12.31.09–coaching questions start at about the 5:00 mark.
The Redskins are closing out their worst season of the decade—perhaps the worst in several decades. Heads will roll and the first certainly will be that of Head Coach Jim Zorn.
Zorn himself says that he has been on the proverbial hot seat, or “getting [...]
CSN: Redskins so close but yet so far
It’s easy to conjure up a few scenarios under which the Redskins would have won a few more games and would have been in playoff contention. The win over the Raiders shows how slim the margin between victory and defeat can be.
CSN: Redskins so close and yet so far away
CSN: Despite Zorn’s denials, Redskins are in losing habits
In his postgame news conference after his team’s stunning, 33-30 overtime loss to the New Orleans Saints, Washington Redskins Coach Jim Zorn was asked if his team had developed a habit of losing. The answer was immediate and emphatic.
“No.”
Zorn then elaborated.
“I think each game is unique,” he said. “There’s no superstition. There’s no psycho stuff [...]
Zorn on losing
Zorn handled the questions about it being a tough season very well in his Monday presser. I think that he’s right about the fact that what has transpired this season will make him a better coach down the road.
CSN: Zorn plays it safe, not smart
Jim Zorn is coaching scared.
When a coach’s job is on the line, he can do one of two things. He can go in with the mindset that he has nothing to lose, pull out all of the stops and employ an aggressive strategy. Whenever there is a reasonable choice between playing it safe and taking [...]
If Portis can’t practice Betts should start
Jim Zorn often gives longwinded answers to questions posed by reporters. Often several paragraphs are given when a sentence or two would have adequately answered the query.
However, that was not the case after yesterday’s game when a reporter asked Zorn if he would consider keeping Ladell Betts as his starting running back when Clinton Portis [...]
It’s raining injuries at Redskins Park
The injury situation goes from bad to worse. Take a look at my article at CSN Washington and then hit the video below to see what Jim Zorn has to say about it.
CSN: It’s Raining Injuries at Redskins Park
Jim Zorn press conference 11.12.09
Redskins not walking the walk
The Washington Redskins say all of the right things. When players are asked about their poor record they point the finger at themselves. It’s their execution, they say. The problem is their mistakes, not the coaching, not the distractions, not anything external.
They do not throw their coaches under the bus (that task is left to [...]
