What appeared obvious is now official: Gregg Williams is no longer under consideration for the Washington Redskins head coaching vacancy, high-ranking team and league sources have told ESPN's Chris Mortensen.
However, Williams said Friday night that he has yet to be informed of that decision and strongly rebutted any notion that he criticized former Redskins coach Joe Gibbs during the interview process, as team and league sources claimed Friday.
"I haven't been told anything," said Williams. "And I would never, ever dump on Joe Gibbs. He is one of the best people I have ever been around in life. I came here because of Joe Gibbs. He's in the Hall of Fame as a coach and he's a better person than he is a football coach. I can't believe anybody would suggest I dumped on Joe. That's completely false."
Only an idiot addicted to change could look at this process and celebrate it as moving forward. This is the exact same lunacy that fired Norv during a winning season, hired and fired Marty after one year, hired Spurrier, signed Sanders, George, Carrier, Smith, and traded Stephen Davis and cut Brad Johnson (who both led their teams to the superbowl) and you know that's the tip of the iceberg.
Williams should have been the coach. That's common sense. That's big picture, mature thinking. That's good business sense. And you have to believe that Gibbs resigned thinking that Williams and Saunders we're doing the work anyway, so they could continue to build the franchise back into a proud organization.
Ha! It took two weeks to dismantle it. Welcome back to the insanity!
For years I've thought the reporters who ALL slam on Snyder and speak of him with disdain were simply envious or bitter. In fact, they were right. Snyder is every bit the complete and total napoleon they've said he is - and it stuns me that he has gutted the heart and soul of the Skins like a teenage brat trying to bully his way through fantasy football. This is truly a disaster and a humiliation that the Skins will not recover from - welcome to the Raiders East.
Not naming Gregg Williams HC is just plain retarded. I too usually defend Snyder believing he has the teams best interest at heart, but just like Gibbs tied himself to boonell, the danny has locked up with Cerrato and that guy is just whacko. I'm still waiting for danny to announce Gregg but with Mort and ESPN saying GW is out, that really is some un-neccessary stuff for GW to endure. The man has made the defense top 5 in 2 out of four seasons and was the one behind LONDON FLETCHER coming here and he has developed Reed and HB nicely, and I like his fire, Jim Fassel on his best day would get his butt stomped by Williams. When will this nightmare be over!
Gnome wrote:For years I've thought the reporters who ALL slam on Snyder and speak of him with disdain were simply envious or bitter. In fact, they were right. Snyder is every bit the complete and total napoleon they've said he is - and it stuns me that he has gutted the heart and soul of the Skins like a teenage brat trying to bully his way through fantasy football. This is truly a disaster and a humiliation that the Skins will not recover from - welcome to the Raiders East.
I have been one of Dan Snyder's first and foremost critics in this board. Now, you all know why.
I always suspected but could not confirm the influence and role that Vinny Cerrato had on Dan Snyder in helping him implement his every wish. Now I can.
There is ALWAYS a comon denominator in the mediocrity and stupidity surrounding the Washington Redskins over the last decade: Dan Snyder and Vinny Cerrato.
It starts at the top people. It starts at the top.
Daniel Snyder has defined incompetence, failure and greed to true Washington Redskins fans for over a decade and a half. Stay away from football operations !!!
You were right. Those two are the worst thing that has ever happened to Skins Nation. Pay more get less. They are Isiah from the Knicks and Davis from the Raiders combined.
I've rolled my eyes for years every time I've read a post on this board that said 'fire' Snyder or 'campaign to get rid of Snyder'. But how I wish the league would step in and b-smack that twerp. I'm down to hoping that his staff is monitoring this and other boards and taking note of the general disgust and exhaustion diehard fans are showing. Maybe they'll salvage this - but stupid is as stupid does and they are right back to their fantasy league, cold corporate management style.
Snyder and Vinny are impossible to root for or to follow with respect and admiration. It's really sad. And what's sadder is that Fed Ex will still be packed, jerseys will still sell, and the Skins will hire and fire a staff and players every other year with no respect for their own staff or players. Keep paying and Danny and Vinny will keep on playing.
Well it looks like he didn't learn anything from Joe Gibbs .
Now you have an offense and a young QB that has to learn a new offense again. I seriously doubt that Todd Collins will stick around now and Brunell is a cap casulty. So now, we'll be left with trying to find a backup to Campbell and I doubt if Zorn will keep Hollenbach.
Then again, with the way the do things around here, I'm not sure if Campbell will even be around long. Zorn might just find some way to keep Brunell and move him back into the starting slot. Who da' hell knows anymore?????
Sean Taylor - 1983-2007 R.I.P.... Forever A Skin.....
I have previously stated that I understood why Dan Snyder might have justifiable reservations about promoting Williams and maintaining continuity of a staff that really hasn't achieved the goals and expectations for which they were hired, but.....
Williams has been a fine coach, most especially in the aftermath of the Sean Taylor tragedy which clearly effected him on a very personal level, and whether or not he was the right man for the HC position is irrelevant in so far as deserving of respectful treatment by this organization during the process of selecting the replacement for Joe Gibbs. And the same holds true for Al Saunders and the rest of the Redskin's staff, across the board.
The media leak suggesting that Williams fell out of favor with ownership because of disparaging remarks made about Joe Gibbs during the interview process is simply despicable and unforgivable behavior, whether true or not (of which I have serious doubts).
Any private conversations between Williams and the Snyder-Cerrato team should have remained confidential, regardless of the content, and to leak such to the media is clearly a transparent act of damage control and propaganda fashioned for player and fan consumption to quell criticism of an unpopular decision. To engage in this obvious smear campaign for the sole purpose of justifying their decision to not hire Williams is, in a word, cowardly.
More importantly, this type of behavior casts a cloud of impropriety over the entire organization which may never dissipate, effecting the organization's long term future ability to attract quality staff and players alike.
Unfortunately, the statements made by Snyder about maintaining continuity and building upon the foundation established by Joe Gibbs over the past 4 years here were as disingenuous as his conduct afterward proves.
The Snyder ownership history of the Washington Redskins has in the past offered instability, inexperience, and poor results. All of which could have been corrected with added experience and better judgment. However, this latest offering is far more troubling, and is embarking on a path for which there is no safe exit.
Let it be clear to Mr. Snyder that no amount of money, not even the substantial amounts held in the Snyder coffers can purchase such things as honesty, integrity, and credibility. And not even Joe Gibbs, who processes an abundance, can sell them to him.
But Gibbs integrity can also be forever lost, not by his failure to deliver another Championship to this organization as he was brought back to do, but by remaining silent and publicly supporting this Snyder-Cerrato hit squad which are now in the final stages of the "Process" not to hire a new head coach, but in the ongoing "Process" of administering the final death blows in their assassination of a once proud and highly respected NFL
franchise.
If Joe Gibbs truly loves the Redskins, the players, and the fans who have supported him over the many years, as he has so often declared, he has one last opportunity to prove it. Before leaving Redskin Park and returning to his comfortable retirement, Joe Gibbs must set aside his natural inclinations for political correctness, and publically condemn this blatent display of impropriety and inexcusable conduct by the Snyder-Cerrato team.
To remain silent is not an option for Joe Gibbs if he truly values and wishes to honor the loyalty and respect offered him by the fans, and the players, and staff of good men who are now becoming the lastest victims of this self serving corporate thug named Dan Snyder.
Hey RayNaustin, Excellent post! however, I Don't think that its really on Gibbs to speak out and decry the abomination that has become the Washington redskins. I personally think that when they say he would be an "Ad visor" to Dan and the team, that is just damage control so that there wouldn't be thousands of Skins fans hanging from their shower rods when he up and retired. I would almost argue in fact that Gibbs should distance himself as far away from this grease fire of a franchise to keep any shred of said dignity. I mean could you really see Gibbs coming out and blasting Dan and Vinny, taking them head on and publicly exposing the fact that he the "Advisor's" advice was given no credence to? But nice post! Lets just thank god that the Raiders are around (owner trying to make coach "resign" and being rebutted) to make us look like the 2nd to worst mess in the league.
