It's finally here. The season has finally started. Well, in three hours the season has started. I've never anticipated an opening game like I do with this one. I waited 'til three hours before opening to write my first NFL article.
Now, to the topic at hand. I'm going to come straight out and say this. I can see Jim Zorn bringing a Super Bowl back to Washington. Maybe not this year...actually I'm sure not this year.
But give this man some time. Jim Zorn is a man who knows football. He has never been a head coach before, but he does have one thing that not too many coaches have: the trust and belief of all of his players.
Now, you may think that all players have to respect their coach and believe in them. That's not entirely true. Just look at what's been going on in Cincinnati with those Bengals.
Chad Johnson (a.k.a. Ocho Cinco) has been stirring the pot up there for a while. That organization has had more players with felony acts than any team in the last 10 years, possibly ever. Now, they may respect Marvin Lewis as a head coach, but that doesn't mean that they truly trust in his work.
If they did, they would have more respect than they do now, and Ocho Cinco would have shut his damn mouth.
Jim Zorn has the trust of not only his players and coaches, he also has the trust of the owner, Daniel Snyder. I actually give A LOT of credit to Daniel Snyder in making this decision.
There are a few reasons why I liked this decision.
For one, it shows Snyder's growth as the owner of the Redskins. When he first came into the NFL, he was all about the money and bringing in high-priced players. At first, I despised Snyder as the owner because I felt he was bringing this Redskins organization down.
But over the last four years, Snyder hasn't been the same arrogant, snobbish, money-spending man he once was. Now he's making smarter decisions with his money and his staffing.
He brought in Steve Spurrier and Marty Schottenheimer as head coaches, only to flop with them. He should have given Marty one more year. He did get us from an 0-5 start to a 8-8 finish. That's quite impressive for a guy who didn't have much to work with and went through four QBs that year.
Snyder, before those hirings, released Norv Turner with four games left in the season, and we still had a shot to make the playoffs. What kind of dumb move is that. Let the man who struggled for nine years as the head coach, and finally brought us to the postseason a year before—where we were one play away from the NFC Championship game—finish off the season. If he didn't get us there, then fire him.
Daniel Snyder was a rich owner who didn't know a damn thing about football.
Then, who comes in and brings some common sense to Snyder and the whole Redskins organization? None other than the greatest man to grace the Redskins' organization, Joe Gibbs. Whom I give the most credit to for the position the Redskins are in now.
He brought in this team and brought in his faith and wisdom of not only the game of football, but also in the game of life. With all that time Snyder and Gibbs spent together, you think some of Gibbs, if not all, didn't rub off on Daniel Snyder?
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26 days ago
Nice article James.
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