Jay Gruden hired as head coach of the Redskins

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Originally Posted by SolidSnake84

I don't want to be Debbie Downer i swear, but am I the only one who is reminded just a little bit of the Jim Zorn hire? The situation sort of feels the same to me....a guy who all of a sudden is becoming head coach...

I think the results will be better than Zorn, but the way the situation has been handled so far makes me think of that....

Gruden has been a solid contender for HC jobs this year and last year. Zorn was picked because no other options remained. That wasn't the case here because Bevel at least would have been an option to throw buckets of money at. I think an equivalent hire might have been the Dallas ST coach. Kinda out there, some reasons to think he might but overall not a strong candidate.

I don't get the knocks on Gruden, even as I sit with a wait and see approach. This guy, and most of the staff he is putting together, have won together at various stops along his football journey. Despite what JLC (and SS) seem to imply, the 5yr 20million isn't an outlier from contracts handed out and published in the last 2 years.

Will he be great, who knows, but to suggest this was close to a Zorn pick, or any other past Skins coach search seems a bit mindless to me.

(For history sake, hindsight tells us that Zorn was already on staff, we couldn't hire who DS probably wanted (Fassel), and ran out of other options, then they hired him.)