Zorn "probably the worst NFL hire of all time"??

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Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

I think we could probably say this was the worst coach hiring process of all time with little dissent. The only parallel I can draw is last year's Raider's hire of Kiffin. And he didn't turn out too bad, not that he's welcome in Oakland anymore...but that's another story.

I'd disagree only because we have no idea what other coaching searches were like. This was our first real coaching search in the new blogging age. We have to remember that for the first time ever we had up to date minute by minute coverage of this like no other search in history. I think it is likely that many other searches go exactly this way. Maybe they have gone a little faster but in the end what so "bad" about this search? Just the fact that it took a while? They brough a bunch of people in and kicked the tires on them and eventually didn't hire any of them. It's not like they picked a name out of a hat. Zonr is a guy they hired as OC with the backing of the so called fornt runners and then when they finally whittled out all the front runners they realized well maybe the guy we already hired on the advice of so many good football people dserves a shot. And he wowed them. I fail to see how it was bad.