Washington Redskins Never Wanted Jim Zorn At All

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Published: October 6, 2009

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... as the beginning of the end of the Jim Zorn era.

The Redskins today hired West Coast Offense guru Sherman Lewis as an “offensive consultant" less than 48 hours after the team’s narrow victory against the bumbling Buccaneers.

Redskins de facto GM Vinny Cerato stressed that Lewis is “another set of eyes” and “Jim welcomed the idea if it was the right guy” and “Jim still calls the plays.”

It doesn’t take a genius to read the subtext here: the hire was made by Vinny Cerato and (because it was Cerato) by owner Daniel Snyder. Zorn clearly did not initiate this and, no matter how much of a lap dog Zorn has been during his Redskins tenure, no doubt he was unhappy about it.

There was one more, much more interesting quote from Cerato during the press conference. Did you catch it?

The entire quote reads as thus: “(Lewis) is another set of eyes, and he’s been involved with this offense since Bill Walsh started running it. And he and Jim bot...

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