Jerry Gray, Bobby Mitchell, and the Redskins Rooney Rule

The one thing we are going to miss about Jim Zorn is his unusual candor. We could use a lot more candor in Washington from Capitol Hill to Redskin Park. Take Jerry Gray. Can we get some candor please?

As a black guy who attended his first Redskins game in 1962 because his dad thought it important that his son see in person the first black guy, Bobby Mitchell, to play in a Redskins uniform, I have conflicting feelings about Washington’s implementation of the Rooney Rule and Jerry Gray’s role in it.   

Coaches come with networks of assistants. I get it. We want coaches to come with their assistants so they can make the biggest impact on their new team the quickest. I get that, too.

Yet somehow that old boy network failed to include minority coaches in any number approaching their proportion as players, especially at the coordinator position where fresh head coach candidates arise. (that’s improving, however. Gray is part of Gregg Williams’ coaching network.)

Enter the Rooney Rule that required that owners at least talk to one minority candidate when making a head coach hire. That action breaks the cycle of hiring by name recognition and brings to the surface a list of very good assistants who are not otherwise considered.

Can we at least talk to these guys?

In a 40-year business career where I had access to senior executives, I saw the value of management bench strength. Unless the business has crashed and burned, you are better off promoting from within than outside.

Teams are better off if their Rooney Rule candidate is already in-house rather than from the outside. Jerry Gray represents management bench strength.

So why the discomfort? Because no one is being candid here.

The Washington Redskins are a train wreck. The coaching staff will be swept out, as they should be.

Carry-over coaches of four-win teams are not going to get the top job. Jerry Gray is not going to be the next Redskins head coach. Instead, he has become the Bobby Mitchell of the coaching staff.

Mitchell spent the 1962 through ’68 seasons playing for the Redskins, then from 1968 through 2003 in Washington’s front office. He ended his career as assistant general manager when black front office executives were a rarity. 

Mitchell made the Hall of Fame as a player, but never got a sniff from any team as a real GM. He could have used the Rooney Rule. When he retired, Mitchell lamented the pretense of it all.

The pretense of interviewing Gray to satisfy (subvert) the intentions of the Rooney Rule insults me.   

If Daniel Snyder had any inclination to hire from within, he would have made Joe Bugel, if not Gregg Williams or Gray, head coach last season.

If Daniel Snyder had any inclination to find the next bright outside candidate, he would be lining up a list names now, and Rooney Rule candidates would be one or two of those prospects.

By all reports, Gray and Mike Shanahan are the only two people to interview for the job. Shanahan is the potential outside hire.

Daniel Snyder has revealed himself to be the Snyder of 2000. That Snyder has a track record of hiring a famous name to coach the team to a .500 record over the following three years. Jerry Gray isn’t famous enough.

I just wish someone was candid enough to tell us what we already know.

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London Fletcher of the Redskins Was Robbed of a Shot at the Pro Bowl

It’s hardly worth a headline anymore. Washington’s London Fletcher-Baker was snubbed, as he always is, for the 2010 NFL Pro Bowl.

The NFL named San Francisco’s Patrick Willis and New Orleans’ Jonathan Vilma as the starting and reserve inside linebackers for the game to be played in Miami January 31, 2010.

Willis was the No. 1 tackler in the NFL, 147 total with one game left in the season. Fletcher is tied with Carolina’s Jon Beason for No. 2. Each have 134 total tackles.

Vilma (110 tackles) is an outstanding linebacker whose case was helped by New Orleans’ 13-2 record and by the Saint’s high-powered offense.

Fletcher played for the lowly Redskins whose only impact on the post-season was as minor speed bumps for playoff-bound teams.

Stats aren’t everything, but Fletcher’s value to his team surely rivals Vilma’s to the Saints. Redskins’ standout rookie Brian Orakpo credits Fletcher for helping him make the jump as a pro player.

Orakpo was named to the Pro Bowl as an outside linebacker. The Redskins took fan criticism for playing Orakpo at linebacker instead of right defensive end, his position out of college.  

Orakpo at linebacker was a move both desperate and brilliant by the Skins. Desperate because Washington’s front office did not have a plan to backfill LB Marcus Washington. Chris Wilson and other depth players couldn’t fill the role. Orakpo had to work out there or the Skins were cooked. (Oh, wait. They were cooked anyway.)

Brilliant because Washington’s next coach might install the 3-4 defensive alignment. Orakpo’s year as part-time linebacker and defensive end sets him up nicely for a system where the outside linebacker fills both roles. Think “DeMarcus Ware.”

In drafting Orakpo, Washington subscribed to the best-player-available theory, the approach favored by former Redskin executive Vinny Cerrato. I won’t argue with that approach, both because Orakpo vindicated the choice and because well selected picks average up a team’s talent.

Snyderrato applied the best available approach to veteran free agents and to trades. That approach often leads to disappointment. Free agents should be signed for need.

Albert Haynesworth was the best free agent talent at any position available last offseason. He was not what the Redskins needed. His $7 million 2009 cap hit would have covered the two or three decent offensive linemen who should have been signed over the past three seasons. 

Haynesworth had a decent year for the Skins. His presence helped Orakpo and DE Andre Carter (also snubbed for the Pro Bowl despite 11 sacks) reach new levels of performance.

Fans are down on Haynesworth these days. It’s unsettling to see your high-profile signee gassed on the field so often. I get that, but we fans need to lighten up. It’s tough even for elite athletes to move 350 pounds around. If the big man needs a break, let him take it.

Fletcher was the perfect free agent signing. He filled a specific roster hole at middle linebacker. He fit Gregg Williams’ defensive scheme. Fletcher played in Williams’ system in Buffalo, and he was an affordable hire with a five year $25 million contract. Player, scheme, and contract makes Fletcher the picture of an ideal free agent.  

Typical of the Redskins, Washington structured Fletcher’s contract so that he had a $4.3 million cap hit this year and a whopping $7 million hit in 2009.

If only London Fletcher played offensive tackle, he might have made the Pro bowl.  

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Hold Your Bets On The Redskins Against The Giants

Here’s how you spell Redskins Football over the past five weeks:

E-A-S-Y-M-O-N-E-Y.

Though Washington has gone 2-3 over the past five games, the Redskins have been 5-0 against the spread.

If you are like me (and I know I am), you gamble the way you invest: wait until the trend is clear and drop your stake when everyone else is getting out. Then cry like a little girl when you lose your assets.

Washington was eight to 10 point underdogs for every game but the Oakland Raiders, when they were two point favorites. You know the results, a 10 point win, a one point loss, a pair of three point losses and an 11 point win.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy. But, lets not crash Vegas to support our Skins tonight.

The gambling sharps knew the gaming public discounted the Snyderskins. Who could blame them? So spreads were set to entice bets and did not change. Even after Washington upset the Denver Broncos, they were nine point dogs to opponents over the next three weeks.

Outside of Washington, folks didn’t know that the Skins played better with the hungry guys, who were much more fun to watch, too. They still may not know.

I travelled last weekend and found that ESPN didn’t bother to show a video recap of the Redskins-Raiders game Sunday night or anytime Monday. In a sense, America is getting its first look at the new Redskins.

But gambling sites are catching on. Bodog.com, for example, has the Giants as three point favorites. Those easy to cover spreads have evaporated as the Skins improved.

I suggest you hold on to your wallets and just enjoy the game.

It’s beastly weather in an outdoor stadium. Beastball means run the ball, stop the run in December. The Redskins have improved on the strength of Jason Campbell’s arm and the click going on in the minds of Fred Davis and Devin Thomas. They finally “get” pro football.

The Giant defense looks vulnerable, especially in pass coverage.  The G-men’s secondary has given up 19 touchdowns in the last eight games. Cornerbacks Corey Webster (knee) is listed as Doubtful and Aaron Ross (hamstring) is questionable.

On the Giant’s O-line, right tackle Kareem McKenzie (knee) is Doubtful. 

Funny as it sounds, New York has to run the ball to keep Campbell on the bench.

For the Skins, Big Al Haynesworth is probable and DT Cornelius Griffin and CB DeAngelo Hall are questionable. “Questionable” is a code word for they’re going to play on Monday Night Football. 

Haynesworth playing should be good news to Washington’s defensive ends, especially rookie Brian Orakpo. The Redskins have played Orakpo more from the right defense end position in recent games. Right defensive end is the designated pass rushing end position.

Rotating Orakpo with Andre Carter from that position is wise on Washington’s part. It’s what they should have done with Jason Taylor last season.

The attempt to make Taylor a run-stopping left defensive end was a failed experiment and a waste of the league-leading sack master’s talent. (Taylor’s freak calf injury didn’t help.) So it’s good to see Greg Blache relent on Carter as the only RDE of the Redskins.

Bodog.com has installed Orakpo as the 3-2 favorite to win Rookie Of The Year honors. 

Be leery of the point spread and mindful that the Giants are 7-2 against the Redskins over the past five seasons. Yet, these next three games are as close as the Skins will get to the playoffs. The players have a new deputy to impress. For them, the future is now.

Redskins 27, Giants 21

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Why Jim Zorn Won’t Quit

The question has been on the lips of Redskin fans and maybe the front office too. With all of the putdowns, insinuations and demeaning treatment, why doesn’t Jim Zorn just quit?

Because quitting would be the worst possible way to get your next coaching job. Yes, Virginia, Jim Zorn has a future as a NFL coach.

So, coach Zorn, the heat got too much for you in Washington and you just melted away. Why should I hire you?

Pay attention now, people. Nobody quits a coveted job. Well, almost nobody. Public servants who see their service as a contribution to society may resign on principle. Elliot Richardson did that in 1973. Few others do. 

If you doubt this, go look in the mirror. If you’ve been full time employed for more than ten years, you’ve run into that boss you’ve contended with, job appraisals you’ve thought unfair, or changes in working conditions you found intolerable.

Did you quit?

Jim Zorn became a better coach in 2009, if not a winning one, just by sticking it out. Zorn came to Washington to apply his offensive concepts (no pun intended) and to call the plays. He was tapped for the top job only when the Redskins ran out of candidates.

Playcalling and position coaching are about 20 percent of head coach responsibility. The biggest part of the job is executive leadership: organizing team operations, setting the direction, motivating, inspiring, pushing, correcting, rewarding.

The coach has to be the force in the face of adversity. It’s football. Football is life in microcosm. There’s always adversity in life. If sports teaches anything, it’s don’t quit until the last whistle. 

Nothing in Zorn’s career to now prepared him for the 2009 season. Now he’s ready for anything, or any owner.

Washington played better in the last four games than they did in the first nine. From the outside, we can’t tell with precision how that happened. Maybe the Sherm Lewis move was a good idea after all.

I wouldn’t have done what Zorn did. He more than complied with the front office’s demand to make Lewis the playcaller. He worked to make it successful. That’s leadership. Zorn was astute enough not to be the reason for its failure.

“The thing that held you back is going to lift you up.” ~~ Timothy to Dumbo. Walt Disney Studios, 1941.

Had he quit, Zorn would not have been part of this Redskin Renaissance. Pundits would not have marveled at how the players are putting out effort for him. He would not have been around to see Vinny Cerrato axed before him. He could not tell the story of how the offense improved with its biggest stars on injured reserve.  

The Redskins played their first eight games like they were exhibition games. They were not prepared. I expect stories to emerge showing that Zorn had lots of “help” with training camp and setting the roster. Zorn was the coach, so he is accountable.

Those other bizarre events gave Zorn gold-plated experience that will stand him well. Battle-tested Zorn will show up at FedEx Field someday with some other team.

Oh crap. 

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LaVar Arrington: Mike Shanahan Is The Next Redskin Hire

Former Washington Redskins star linebacker LaVar Arrington on his radio show insists that Washington has already greased the skids for hiring Mike Shanahan as the next Redskins head coach.

Arrington declined to name his source for the news, but contends it is solid and reliable.

Reports circulated through the day that Shanahan informed Redskins owner Daniel Snyder that he would not join the team if Vinny Cerrato was acting as general manager.

Cerrato announced that he was resigning his position today. That news was followed by the stunning announcement that Bruce Allen, son of former Redskins head coach George Allen, had been hired as the new executive vice president and general manager of the team.

Allen’s brother, former Virginia governor and U.S. Senator George Allen, said in an interview that Bruce and the Redskins worked on the deal “for weeks” and marveled that there were no leaks on the story.

The NFL says that the Redskins complied with the league’s Rooney Rule that requires teams to interview at least one minority candidate before hiring a GM or head coach. The rule was set to break the Old Boy cycle of where insiders are hired to the exclusion of worthy minority candidates.

Arrington posits the logical view that it make little sense to name a GM without an end game of head coach. But until he reveals his source, we have to treat Arrington’s thought as an informed guess.

That Cerrato’s resignation was followed so quickly by Allen’s hire has the feel of an orchestrated move.

It’s also typical of Snyder: the big name hire that solves all problems. Lets catch our breath.

George Allen did not lead the modern resurgence of the Washington Redskins. Vince Lombardi did. Allen extended it in the pre-salary cap era when he famously exceeded his unlimited budget.

Allen led the Redskins to one Super Bowl. He left the team when his “Over The Hill Gang” really was over the hill.

There’s no guarantee that Bruce can even duplicate his father’s accomplishment. We think he will bring sense and order to Washington’s salary cap structure so that we never again see a day when a Brandon Lloyd counts millions against the 2009 salary cap. That could take years to fix. Bruce’s record as a GM is mixed in any event.

There’s no certainty that Shanahan is the guy to lead a Redskins Renaissance. He was 24-24 in his last three seasons with Denver. That’s only slightly better than Joe Gibbs’ record in his return to Washington. Denver released Shanahan when Broncos owner Pat Bowlen got the sense that he lost his touch.

There’s no certainty either that Shanahan even shows up here. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has surely hit the speed dial to Shanny’s phone by now.

The common factor in all of Snyder’s moves is Snyder himself. Big name moves haven’t worked for Snyder because he keeps getting in his team’s way.

When Jimmy Johnson slammed Snyder last October, he said the Redskins need a general manager who can make smart moves while making Snyder think he’s having an influence. Johnson called that an impossible task. 

Washington’s success with these moves depend entirely on how hands off Daniel Snyder will be on football operations.

It’s too soon to say about that, so curb your enthusiasm and hold on to your wallets. 

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Daniel Snyder Rethinks the Stink, Hires Bruce Allen as Redskins GM

I’m sorry, Daniel Snyder.

I owe the boy-king of the Washington Redskins a huge apology. Like many of you, I did not expect Snyder to make an intelligent football move this winter.

He surprised me with two.

Snyder finagled the removal of Vinny Cerrato as executive vice president of football operations.

Then, he signed Bruce Allen as Redskins Executive Vice President and General Manager.

I’m more impressed by the Allen hire than by the push to Cerrato.  

The Redskins and the media are already making too much of Allen’s family connection to the Redskins. Allen is the son of former Redskin and Hall Of Fame coach George Allen and former Virginia governor and U.S. Senator George Allen.

Don’t be impressed by that. It’s fluff.

The point is that Bruce Allen can manage a salary cap and run a team. That’s not just my opinion. J. I. Halsell, former Redskin cap analyst and Football Outsiders columnist, wrote this about Allen last summer:

“If you are a club looking for a front office executive, given the job he did in Tampa Bay, Bruce Allen is a name you’d have to seriously consider.”

Tampa Bay, under Allen’s management, ranked second as the most efficient user of salary cap dollars in 2008 according to Halsell’s Jun. 4, 2009, Football Outsider’s story, Under The Cap: 2008 Cap Efficiency .

Halsell pointed out that unused cap dollars roll over to future years. That’s a neat cushion when you have to sign two or three quality free-agent linemen.

The Redskins ranked 17th on that list. Here’s what you need to know about the Redskins 2009 salary cap. Brandon Lloyd is still on it, to the tune of $5 million by some counts. Five million dollars would cover two or three offensive tackles.

So does hiring Allen mean the Redskins’ cap gets fixed? Too soon to say.

We have to see if Snyder is hands-off enough for Allen to apply his expertise. We have to see if Allen is savvy enough to draw on the experts he brings to the front office.

One of Jimmy Johnson’s criticisms of Snyder last October was that the Redskins hire good talent scouts, “but nobody listens to them.” I wish some media type pursued that statement.

No one did. But the blurb points to the biggest flaw in Snyder’s approach to football. Managing the cap isn’t a strategic competitive advantage. Even at its cleverest, it’s just a technique. Drafting quality players who are contributors over the following six or seven seasons is the strategic know-how.

Washington has a long way to go for that. The more Snyder stays out of that picture, the better.

Speaking of Halsell, check out his summary on how the Redskins under Snyder have mismanaged the roster and salary cap in his Oct. 23, 2009, story on Football Outsiders .

Washington hired Allen just when the salary cap itself may go away, depending on negotiations between the NFL owners and the Player’s Association. I call that ironic.

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Jerry Rice Exposes Darrell Green

Jerry Rice is as sure a first ballot Hall Of Famer as you will ever meet. Asked today who were the best defensive backs he’s ever faced, the legendary San Francisco 49er-Oakland Raider wide receiver mentioned two names: the Dallas Cowboys‘ Deion Sanders and the Washington Redskins‘ Darrell Green. 

Rice was interviewed today by San Francisco Examiner sportswriter Samuel Lam. Here’s the question and Rice’s answer.

Lam: “…who do you think was the greatest defensive back that you have ever faced?

Rice: “I have a couple guys. I’ll give you two. Deion Sanders and also Darrell Green. Because you’re looking at two guys that were fast, that can run like a deer. With Darrell Green and Deion, they were very physical at the line of scrimmage. So I had my work cut out when I had to face those guys. And when we talk about different matchups, Deion and I, we joke about this today, the night before the game, we couldn’t sleep because we know the battle we’re going to have the next day. But it was a battle that was out of respect because I know he was talented and it was something you live for each ball game.”

The entire transcript may be found at San Francisco examiner.com .

Darrell Ray Green was a first round draft pick by the Washington Redskins in 1983. He spent his entire career with Washington and was feared for his legendary speed.

Green was elected to seven Pro Bowls and was named All Pro in 1986, 1987, 1990, and 1991. He holds the NFL record for most consecutive seasons (20) with at least one touch (by reception, rush, or return), a record he shares with Rice.

Green was a first ballot inductee to the NFL Hall Of Fame in 2008 in an emotional ceremony for him and Redskins fans everywhere. 

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New Orleans Saints’ Sean Payton Has a Lesson For Jim Zorn

No, it isn’t a lesson on how to coach a stupid comeback in a stupid game you should have lost.  Payton can teach Zorn, and the Washington Redskins too if they care to learn it, that you are better than they say you are and that life goes on.

The Redskins are not the last stop in Jim Zorn’s coaching career.

Payton was considered a bust as offensive coordinator of the 2002 New York Giants. Yet, here he is on top of the NFL world.

New York hired Payton as quarterback coach in 1999 and promoted him to the coordinator position in 2000. The Giants made a Super Bowl appearance that year. Payton was considered one of those young gun, can’t-miss head coach prospects.

Two seasons later, New York considered Payton the village idiot. His situation declined so badly that (queue the Twilight Zone theme) head coach Jim Fassel relieved him of all playcalling duties.

Pay attention, Jim Zorn.

With Payton seemingly at the end of the NFL road, Bill Parcells snap him up as Dallas Cowboys quarterback coach and assistant head coach.

New Orleans came a’calling in 2006 and hired Payton as head coach. They paired him with newly acquired quarterback Drew Brees, who had his own question marks after shoulder surgery.

Payton took ain’ts out of the Saints and made them an immediate winner, as New Orleans went 10-6 in ’06. Then the team fell on hard times, falling to a fourth place division finish by 2008.

It must be nice when the team owner actually helps when the team struggles.

Saints owner Tom Benson didn’t just sign Brees to the team in 2006. He signed Brees’ quarterback coach from the San Diego Chargers, Pete Carmichael, Jr., (a former Redskins quality control assistant) to the same role in New Orleans.

And Benson did not disrupt the team when performance slipped in 2007-08. Payton and Carmichael were retained. Carmichael was promoted offensive coordinator in 2009. Redskins coaching heir-apparent Gregg Williams was signed as defensive coordinator at the same time.  

The Saints this year have taken down everyone in a march to the Super Bowl that could take them to post-season match-ups against the Vikings and Colts.

Sean Payton is proof that coaches come back from set backs. The Giants don’t make many personnel mistakes. Payton may have been one of them. New York might have been every bit as successful with Payton as with Kevin Gilbride as offensive coordinator.  

Daniel Snyder hires good coaches for the Redskins. Then he fires them, as Dan Daly documented all too well in a Nov. 13 story for The Washington Times .

Jim Zorn is about to join their ranks.

If you don’t think Zorn will get another shot as head coach, consider that Norv Turner got two more bites of the apple for reasons that still mystify me. Turner is doing quite nicely in San Diego, where he awaits a visit by Snyder and the Redskins at the end of the season. 

Jim Zorn will have a NFL career after the Redskins. If he follows Payton’s script, he’ll sign on to Bill Parcells’ staff then angle for a head coach slot from Miami.

Then, all that’s left is to wait for the Redskins to show up on the schedule…like Gregg Williams and Al Saunders and Marty Schottenheimer and Norv Turner.

 

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Washington Redskin Cheerleader: Cheer Hard, Smile Pretty, Win

I slept on this one.

Times are tough for the Washington Redskins. So Esquire Magazine went right to the source for the inside scoop on what’s going on with this team.

That’s right. They asked a Redskinette, ah, First Lady of Football.

Redskin cheerleader Jamilla Keene was interviewed by Esquire following Washington’s Week Seven 27-17 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

Ms. Keene thinks the addition of consulting playcaller Sherman Lewis may help the team. She is relieved not to have been near Clinton Portis’ helmet when he slammed it on the sideline during the Eagles game. “That might have hurt a bit,” she says.

Keene calls quarterback Jason Campbell the silent leader of the team and says the players know it. She does not understand why the average fan does not support head coach Jim Zorn.

A lot has happened in Washington since the end of October. Back then, Keene harbored hopes of a turnaround and playoff run. That takes a total team effort.

“We’re gonna cheer hard and smile pretty, and I believe the team could rally, win every last one of the games and go to the playoffs. Stranger things have happened.”

Works for me.

Read the full story on Esquire Magazine’s Tuesday Morning Cheerleader Series.

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The Washington Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles Look to Ground Each Other

The Washington Redskins face the Philadelphia Eagles in a NFC East contest on a chilly day at Lincoln Financial Field. The best that can be said for the Redskins is that they can win.

Not that anyone expects them to. The Redskins are 10 point underdogs to the Eagles. But Washington’s effort against the Cowboys stokes the dying embers of hope that something good can emerge from the season.

The best chance for Washington to win this game is old fashioned football. Run the ball. Stop the run.

The absence of Clinton Portis and Brian Westbrook change the dynamics of the contest. Both were the leading scorers for their team. Both Westbrook and Portis scored 12 touchdowns in 2007. That’s three touchdowns for every four games they played.

No back on either team is close to that performance this season. Eagles’ receiver DeSean Jackson and tight end Brent Celek are on a pace for eight touchdowns each.

Jackson, who was judged too short to play for the Redskins, already gashed Washington for a 67 yard touchdown run and a 57 yard touchdown reception. Stopping Jackson means keeping him off the field.

The Redskin defense is the best in football against the pass, but not so good against the run. The Detroit Lions beat the Skins’ 25th ranked run defense on the ground.

The Redskins have to stop Eagle rookie LeSean McCoy. If McCoy is not as versatile at Westbrook, he’s more of a mystery to Washington.

Washington’s throws its midget, Portis-clones at the Eagles’ ninth-ranked rushing defense. 

Neither Rock Cartwright, Quinton Ganther, nor Marcus Mason are as tall as Clinton Portis (5 ft. 11 in.). Maybe they can hide behind the line until they break through it. 

Rock is as rugged as his name. Ganther may be a reliable blocker. Mason can gash for big yards on occasion. All offer the same advantage as LeSean McCoy. They are a mystery to the Eagles.

Washington’s travails are a blessing for Jim Zorn, though he might not see it that way.

The knock about his play-calling is a typical misdiagnosis by the Redskin front office. Bill Belichick makes controversial fourth down calls. John Harbaugh was scored on cable TV this morning for mishandling timeouts in the Ravens loss to the Colts last Sunday.

No coach calls a perfect game. It wasn’t Zorn’s play-calling that led to a 3-7 record.

The Redskins were not prepared for the season. That says something about head coaching leadership. Why is that a blessing? Because Zorn is learning now that it’s that head coaching management, ah, stuff, that must occupy most of his time.

That’s an expensive lesson learned on Daniel Snyder’s money. Zorn will apply that lesson for some other team in three years or so. Snyder won’t get the benefit of Zorn’s experience. 

Typical.

 

 

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