Good article by Wilbon

[KI Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

So Jack Kent Cooke was to blame for bringing in an unqualifed HC who went 8-8. Joe Gibbs retired. The re-treads available looked awful. Danny took a chance. No blame there.

Your comparison to Gibbs is invalid. Gibbs was selected by a highly regarded professional GM, Bobby Beathard. Also, Gibbs was a successful OC. Zorn was picked by Pinky and The Brain and he was never an OC.

Gibbs lost his first five games. After that, he realized that he was taking the wrong approach with the Air Coryell schemes because his personnel was a better fit for emphasizing the running game, so the Hogs were born and John Riggins became the work horse. After that, Joe Gibbs went 8-3 the rest of the way.

Conversely, Zorn has changed nothing, insisting that the system works and that the players are not running the plays properly. The result is that the rest of the league is on to his offense and we are getting worse, not better.

The histories of the first years of Gibbs and Zorn are, in fact, contrapositives.

As far as the retreads are concerned, I think you are overlooking the up and coming candidates, such as Spagnuolo, who turned down the job.

Remember, Zorn wasn't even a HC candidate, initially. I even suspect that they weren't all that interested in Zorn as an OC, but rather as the best person to develop Jason Campbell. They had to offer him the promotion to OC to force Seattle to let him go. Then, the HC search got weird and they ended up hiring Zorn as HC.

No way was Zorn as qualified as Joe Gibbs!