Daniel Snyder has amazed me once again, hiring Jim Zorn as their new coach Saturday ending a long search to replace Joe Gibbs. Jim Zorn was the Seattle Seahawks quarterbacks coach before being hired a month ago to be the offensive coordinator of the Washington Redskins. To go from offensive coordinator to head football coach should raise some concern to the Washington Redskin nation.
This move makes me wonder if Daniel Snyder may have waited to long to make a move and wasn’t able to get the coach that he wanted and now has to settle. Why would he hire an offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator before even having a head coach? I have been convinced during this head coach search process that Daniel Snyder may be a great business man but has no clue how to hire a head football coach as well as put a winning product on the field. It’s not all too often that coordinators are hired before the head coach. Wouldn’t a head coach want to hire his own staff of coordinators and assistants so he could have people that he trusts to run his own schemes?
This all goes to Daniel Snyder wanting to have full control of every single aspect of the Redskins organization. He wants every person to know that he is in control and they will be answering to him. His ego sometimes hinders the Redskins from maybe getting the coach that the team needs over the coach that Snyder wants. He’s known for making big hires and paying big dollars for big named coaches and now the hire of Zorn kind of throws me for a loop.
Jim Zorn will be taking over a team that went 9-7 in the regular season making the playoffs but losing in the first round to the Seattle Seahawks. Zorn will have a lot of talent to work with but there are some key positions that will need to be addressed in the off season. The offensive system will most likely go under a complete overhaul under Zorn, who is expected to go to a west coast style of offense. Jim Zorn will have his hands full from now till the start of the season. He will have to teach a whole new system to his players as well as win over a lot of his key players whom where very disappointed that the job didn’t go to former defensive coordinator Williams.
This hire will be resting solely on the shoulders of Daniel Snyder and I’m sure the Redskin faithful will be ready to jump all over him if the team doesn’t win. Time will tell if this was the right hire for the Skins but until then expect every move to but put under a microscope. If this move doesn’t work out for the Redskins and there back to the same spot they are in right now, it may be time for Snyder to sell the team and move on to another business venture. I hope that it doesn’t come to that just for the fact that I don’t want to see the Redskins fans have to go threw another new coaching search. The Redskins faithful deserve better than getting a coach that may have been 3rd on Snyder’s coaching wish list.
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