The Real Problem of the Redskins ...

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Originally Posted by Spence

We know Snyder hires assistant coaches for his head coach. It strains credulity to imagine that he isn't also making personnel decisions.

Cerrato made the hires, and really it was only one or two new hires. Most were just retaining the current staff.

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Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Cerrato made the hires, and really it was only one or two new hires. Most were just retaining the current staff.

You're kidding, right? Where did Cerrato get the authority to hire coaches? Did he also arrange to have people flown in on Snyder's plane? Does he have Snyder's credit card or something?

Retaining coaches from an old regime is exactly what I'm talking about. Zorn was told who most of his assistant coaches were, including offensive coaches like Simmons, Hixon and Bugel, who had no history with Zorn at all.

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Originally Posted by Spence

You're kidding, right? Where did Cerrato get the authority to hire coaches? Did he also arrange to have people flown in on Snyder's plane? Does he have Snyder's credit card or something?

You'd rather he made the hires without the authority of the owner? There's not a single owner (worth anything) in the NFL who is not going to know what decisions his top executive is making

Retaining coaches from an old regime is exactly what I'm talking about. Zorn was told who most of his assistant coaches were, including offensive coaches like Simmons, Hixon and Bugel, who had no history with Zorn at all.

Agree that when we decided not to move forward with an in-house candidate the best decision may have been to clean house almost entirely from the Gibbs 2.0 regime. But then we'd all be complaining about the lack of continuity. Furthermore, history with Zorn is somewhat overrated. Did Buges and Petitbon have a history with Gibbs?