Jim Zorn Hired as new Redskins Head Coach

Jim Zorn was signed to a five year 15 million dollar contract today as the new Head Coach of the Washington Redskins. He was formerly the Quarterbacks Coach of Seattle Seahawks and was previously hired as the Redskins Offensive Coordinator this very offseason before being promoted. His work at making Matt Hasselbeck into a Pro Bowl Quarterback is obvious, but he has never been a coordinator in this league. He will certainly be good for Jason Campbell's development, but I think whether or not he can manage a team is more up in the air. He was the quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks for their first seven years after their creation in the 1976 NFL expansion and that gives him a bit of an advantage, since he knows how a team works. At the same time, I think it would have been best to keep him as the coordinator so that he could slowly learn the ropes without the responsibility of being a head coach, while at the same time doing what he was hired to do: help Jason Campbell. Although I like Zorn and what he's done, I think he's far too under-qualified to be doing this and was mostly hired because Snyder had fired everybody else.