Zowie, It's Zorn!?

Talk about How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying! Skins offensive coordinator Jim Zorn never got to craft a Skins game plan and Danny Snyder has promoted him to head coach.

The whole thing stinks of desperation. I think it's apparent that the Skins were really focused on Giants d-coordinator Steve Spagnuola even before the Super Bowl win. His D's performance in the big game only whetted Danny' s appetite (wetted Danny's crotch?) even more.

As an Eagles fan I was hoping for the Jim Johnson protege to be hired. A combo move that would have at once thrown the Giants defense into turmoil - which had taken all year to master his schemes and probably meant a shift in philosophy thanks to a new d-coach coming in fresh -- and installing in Washington an untested head coach (though an astute defensive coach). In other words, Gregg Williams only if Spagnuola had a mediocre head coaching record.

But that plan went up in smoke when Spags...can we call him Spags since I'm not sure what and how many vowels his last name ends with spurned the Skins. Even the Plan B wasn't too bad. Jim Fassel always played the Eagles tough and took a team to the super bowl.

But Jim Zorn? Danny must have been really wowed by his talk of converting the Skins hard running/vertical passing game into a west coast offense.

Strange, strange, strange.

And then there's the fact that Jim Zorn was my brother's favorite NFL player for a year or two when we were growing up. Jeff even had a poster of Zorn with the Seahawks in his room. Aside from his name starting with a Z and being the first QB in Seattle franchise history, i think his big claim to fame was that he is a lefty. So I'll think of that everytime i hear his name for the next three years.

Somewhere Jack Patera is smiling.