The Redskins recently hired Mike Zorn to be their next head coach and Michael Wilbon of the Washington Post lauded the hire in one of his recent columns.
Virtually every big-splash acquisition over the last seven years, whether it was a player or a coach, has turned out to be, well, overstated. A great many times Snyder has gone out and gotten exactly the guy he had in his sights, from Deion Sanders to Al Saunders, and watched it fall somewhere between disappointing and disaster. You cannot fault Snyder one bit for effort.
And that brings me to Jim Zorn, newly and somewhat surprisingly now the head coach of the Redskins. Nothing the Redskins have done in Snyder’s tenure has had less fanfare than the announcement of Zorn as coach.
It might be the best thing that’s happened to the franchise in a long time. If any franchise could benefit from a hire with no hype, with no fanfare, with no overstatement about what he’s going to do and how he’s going to do it, it’s the Washington Redskins.
The hiring of Zorn was a head scratchier to many, but as Wilbon points out, there’s no sense making a big splash-hire if it’s only going to backfire three years later. The Ravens, Falcons and now, the Redskins, have all made hires that have been less about style and more about substance. Obviously only time will tell if these teams made the right decisions, but it’s nice to see organizations get back to hiring good football people instead of good headline material.
