Smoke Signals: Redskins Kind of a Football Team

In his morning radio show today, Redskins honcho Vinny Cerrato defended team management, attacked Steve Largent and said Jim Zorn will remain head coach thru the remainder of this season. Dan Steinberg as the details:

"Let me start by making a few things very perfectly clear: Jim Zorn is the head coach of the Washington Redskins, and will be for the rest of this season, and hopefully into the future," Cerrato said on ESPN 980's Inside the Red Zone.

In his opening remarks, which lasted about 15 minutes, Cerrato also defended the team's organizational structure, called Steve Largent's recent comments about the front office "off the wall," and said this week's news that Sherm Lewis would call the plays was meant to help Zorn.

"The team is tight, the relationships are tight, and we're just trying to prepare to win a game Monday Night AND excite the fans and get the fans back excited about this football team," Cerrato said. "We just want to beat the Philadelphia Eagles Monday night. That's what we're trying to accomplish through all these other things that are going on....Everybody's frustrated. The owner's frustrated. He wants nothing more than to win for the fans. For the fans. He wants to please these fans, and he's SO frustrated because of the struggles."

Later, he called Zorn's future "totally crystal clear."

Read it. What a bunch of crap. I can believe Dan Snyder and Cerrato intend to leave Zorn hanging by a thread for the rest of the season. But the notion that the team is tight and Snyder's primary concern is the fans is just preposterous. Redskins fans: This is what the Redskins think you—they think you're an idiot. The Onion takes on the Redskins:

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