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12/22/09
Redskins Run Swinging Gate Play Before Halftime
So... Can We Fire Jim Zorn Yet?
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I have no idea why Jim Zorn still has a job right now, but it's almost laughable. As Fanhouse's Adam Gretz implies, it's like he's TRYING to get fired, with plays like this.

Just a quick question... who were the linemen supposed to be blocking? And how was Hunter Smith supposed to get off a pass, with the entire Giants' secondary and linebackers clogging up the area of the field where all of the eligible receivers are, and 3 defensive linemen rushing against only one blocker... who ends up pulling up and going out as a receiver anyway.

This play is just a complete disaster, on all counts. I realize the game was out of hand, but is Jim Zorn just messing with us now? Just get him out of there, before this gets any uglier for the Redskins.


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12/22/09
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JrCanuckFan wrote:
I wasn't able to see the game and was relying on the (ever so intelligent) comments in the live thread to figure out what was going on in the game.  I'm hearbroken, as a long time Redskins fan that a season I had so much hope for has come to this completel disaster.  Zorn needs to go NOW, before the Redskins become the new "Aints"
Debi-  I'm not a Redskins fan, let alone a long time Redskins fan.  I'm much more just a rubbernecker at the scene of their somewhat gory season. Do you know which coach - Jim Zorn or Sherm Lewis, or who - called that play?

12/22/09
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 How this man remains employed is beyond me. My theory is that he has compromising photos of Dan Snyder and Al Davis together.

12/22/09
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THIS GAME WAS JUST A JOKE!!!! WE ARE ALL LAUGHING OUR AZZZZZZS OFF!!! OR WILL WE WHEN THE DRAFT COMES AROUND!!!!! FELL SORRY FOR THERE PICKS...... BUT GOT TO START SOME WHERE, LIKE ZORN!!!!

12/22/09
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Sounds to me like he took career advice from Matt Millen. 

12/22/09
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Many of us know the old Italian saying "A fish rots from the head down" and the Vinny Cerrato out, Bruce Allen in is a good step, but imagine if Norv Turner had been left in place to build or Marty Schottenheimer and they had built via the draft rather than  assembling one of the most absurd collections of past-their-prime future Hall of Famers and other assorted graybeards and turning the organization over every year or two; where would they be?  Not looking like a mid-level FCS team, I'd hope but that's what they looked like last night, that team would've  finished in middle of the Ohio Valley Conference.   

12/22/09
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Considering the kind of activity we've seen out of D.C. lately .... was it really that much of a stretch to see the Skins play this one on their knees?   LOL

(jus pokin fun ... carry on fellas)

12/22/09
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(Edited by Diablorain)
the Redskins played like CRAP last night and thats saying it nicely...45-12....that there says it all! and i mean come  on whats up with that trick play anyways?dumb play calling is what that was!

12/22/09
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BLKWOLF wrote:
THIS GAME WAS JUST A JOKE!!!! WE ARE ALL LAUGHING OUR AZZZZZZS OFF!!! OR WILL WE WHEN THE DRAFT COMES AROUND!!!!! FELL SORRY FOR THERE PICKS...... BUT GOT TO START SOME WHERE, LIKE ZORN!!!!
i could make better decisions than zorn he is NOT worth the money!!!!!!! 

12/22/09
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Diablorain wrote:
the Redskins played like CRAP last night and thats saying it nicely...45-12....that there says it all! and i mean come  on whats up with that trick play anyways?dumb play calling is what that was!
I loved Zorn's quotes after the game, talking like the Giants were some kind of geniuses for "sniffing out" their trick play... as if they needed to sniff anything out, when there was no one to block the guy with the ball.

12/22/09
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Maybe he can get a government job like his old Friend Steve Largent.

12/22/09
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 I find it laughable that any of you think this is Zorn's fault.  Guy never should have been a head coach to begin with, yet SNYDER made him one.  Guy has basically had the play calling taken away from him, which I'm sure came from SNYDER.  Who cares if he is trying to get fired, doesn't he get paid more if he does than if he resigns.  And I'm sure SNYDER wants to pay as little as he possibly can to anyone.  Leave Zorn alone, all he did was take a paycheck that any of us would probably kill for right now.

12/22/09
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Pat wrote:
I loved Zorn's quotes after the game, talking like the Giants were some kind of geniuses for "sniffing out" their trick play... as if they needed to sniff anything out, when there was no one to block the guy with the ball.
All i know is that they have 2 different play callers in the booth...one guy  for a run play and one for a pass play....they are all sorts of messed up in Washington....hopefully next week will be a easy win for the Boys!

12/22/09
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i thought Zorn wasn't calling the plays anymore..

12/22/09
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Someone put this man out of his misery!

12/22/09
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LOL! Jim Zorn is sooooooo fired!

12/22/09
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Pat wrote:
I loved Zorn's quotes after the game, talking like the Giants were some kind of geniuses for "sniffing out" their trick play... as if they needed to sniff anything out, when there was no one to block the guy with the ball.
seriously.  most idiotic comments ever.  should have just said we made a bad call instead of sticking with the "it was a great call but the defense was so too good" line.

12/22/09
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I love Tirico just mocking them live.  I know Hunter Smith is probably their best offensive threat, but WTF?

12/22/09
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Jim Zorn is living proof that some people can keep a job,even though they don't have a clue as to what's going on!

12/22/09
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I was working while this was happening, but reading the reactions on my Twitter timeline was hilarious.  After finally seeing the play, I now fully understand the disbelief.

12/22/09
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TheRoss wrote:
i thought Zorn wasn't calling the plays anymore..

Yep...I thought Sherm Lewis was the play-caller.

12/22/09
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 and im in my title game as an 8 seed (5-8) with aaron rodgers and chris johnson
love 0:25 "this is embarassing!"

12/22/09
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I agree. He's daring them to pull the trigger. He should build a 35 point lead and then blow it in the fourth quarter. There's NO way a coach wouldn't get fired for that. ...Wait. What?

12/22/09
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(Edited by bayou71PR)

12/22/09
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Maybe Jim picked up his nephews pee-wee play book by mistake or maybe the giants defense could see the skins offense draw the plays on the ground with a stick like we all did at the park. remember? Or is just our great Indian-American trying to tell them something about the logo on their helmets.maybe! Making it rain is probably NOT the only thing they can do......

12/22/09
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I'm still reeling over this debacle.  I can't say what I really want to say, so I'll just say I'm glad I'm broke; otherwise, the only players I'd have left would be Brian Orakpo and London Fletcher.  Everybody else would be GONE!

12/22/09
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(Edited by HouTxFan)
Do we know that Zorn called the play, or was it Sherm Lewis?  (My question is sincere, not sarcastic.)  Lewis' hiring as an offensive consultant / play-caller about 2 months ago makes me wonder...is Zorn the one who is to blame for that play being called???  

12/22/09
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It may have been the worst "trick play" to ever see the field.  Maybe it was designed to put Hunter Smith into the ER.

12/22/09
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I wasn't able to see the game and was relying on the (ever so intelligent) comments in the live thread to figure out what was going on in the game.  I'm hearbroken, as a long time Redskins fan that a season I had so much hope for has come to this completel disaster.  Zorn needs to go NOW, before the Redskins become the new "Aints"

12/22/09
3
JrCanuckFan wrote:
I wasn't able to see the game and was relying on the (ever so intelligent) comments in the live thread to figure out what was going on in the game.  I'm hearbroken, as a long time Redskins fan that a season I had so much hope for has come to this completel disaster.  Zorn needs to go NOW, before the Redskins become the new "Aints"
Debi-  I'm not a Redskins fan, let alone a long time Redskins fan.  I'm much more just a rubbernecker at the scene of their somewhat gory season. Do you know which coach - Jim Zorn or Sherm Lewis, or who - called that play?

12/23/09
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HouTxFan wrote:
Debi-  I'm not a Redskins fan, let alone a long time Redskins fan.  I'm much more just a rubbernecker at the scene of their somewhat gory season. Do you know which coach - Jim Zorn or Sherm Lewis, or who - called that play?
As I said, I didn't see the game, but I understood that Sherm was calling the plays for the first couple of weeks way back when after he was hired, but when his calls didn't bring about any immediate results, the "honors" went back to Zorn, who "knows his players better".  Now, I will try to find out for sure, but that was my understanding.

12/24/09
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JrCanuckFan wrote:
As I said, I didn't see the game, but I understood that Sherm was calling the plays for the first couple of weeks way back when after he was hired, but when his calls didn't bring about any immediate results, the "honors" went back to Zorn, who "knows his players better".  Now, I will try to find out for sure, but that was my understanding.
I didn't know that.  Doesn't say much for Lewis, I guess, if they decided he wasn't as "good" as Zorn???

12/24/09
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HouTxFan wrote:
I didn't know that.  Doesn't say much for Lewis, I guess, if they decided he wasn't as "good" as Zorn???
"I think" it was a matter of him not knowing the players as well as he might, just yet. I'm not exactly sure what his true position with the team is. So much was made of his hiring, but there hasn't been much talk of him after that.

 
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