Fios wrote:DEHog wrote:SkinsFreak wrote:DEHog wrote:They didn't know they were running the WCO when the hired Zorn a month ago as OC
I'm sure they did. But I'll respond with the analogy made by tcwest10...
tcwest10 wrote:...wouldn't you do what you had to do to make sure you at least kept your old car until the dealer had the new one ready to go?
I love Byner too, and I certainly appreciate what he has done for this organization. But the fact remains, Zorn wanted Stump, Stump knows the system, Byner doesn't, and as many of you have previously argued, the head coach deserves the right to select his staff, especially on offense in this case. And you don't release Byner until you've secured Mitchell.
And if Snyder had said no to Zorn's request of Mitchell, the haters and folks like JLC would have been irate, even more than they are now, and would've spun the Snyder bashing in that direction. I'm not saying Snyder hasn't brought some of this on himself, but it's the same damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario.
My point is wouldn't Zorn want Stump even if he was the OC...of course he would...it's just goes to the point that Snyder had no intentions of giving the job to him and that decision was going to be made by the HC. Which goes to the heart of the problem I have with DS..not so much what he does but how he does it!!
That's the issue precisely, I have no qualms whatsoever about Zorn wanting to choose an RB coach and Byner being let go as a result of that. It's HOW they arrived there that troubles me. Simply telling Byner "hey man, we've got some candidates for the HC spot in mind and so we may have to go in another direction with your job" would have been just fine. That's part of the business. But this strange back-and-forth and the lack of real honesty just isn't an acceptable way to operate. The lack of professional courtesy has no justification.
Listen, I'm not defending the way Dan Snyder does things. But I'm not so sure I understand the "back and forth" stuff.
JLC wrote:So his deal was up this January, while everyone else had a year left. The rest of the coaches get another year, at least - giving them two under contract - while he gets a one-year offer. Tampa Bay has an opening and interviews Byner - the Redskins grant permission (he was still under contract until Jan 30 at the time) - and then, the Monday after the Super Bowl, with the Bucs still not yet making a decision, as they had an other candidate to interview, EB pulled out. He caled TB Coach Jon Gruden and told him his heart was in DC - he played for the Skins, was a part of Joe Gibbs 1.0, he loved the area.
The next day Byner went to the office to sign his deal, and, the Redskins tell him he know has to go through "a process," team sources said; they put him on hold until they'd name a new coach and, according to a team official, he never signed that contract. That's only because he was never allowed to, team sources said Byner was eager to sign on board.
So Byner's contract had already expired. The reports that he had already signed a new contract were false and Byner was owed nothing, contractually speaking. The Skins put a new offer on the table. Byner walks away from that offer and goes and interviews with Tampa. As reported, after the Super Bowl, Tampa hadn't made up their minds either and were still interviewing for the job. During that time, plans were changing as Zorn was getting organized. Byner comes back and wants to sign his new offer. The Skins say, at that point, due to the recent evolution of things, we may go in another direction, so we better hold off for now. Zorn picks Mitchell, Mitchell interviews and gets the job, and Byner never gets the new contract. The point is, Byner was not under contract and wasn't owed anything but consideration.
In the end, they decided to go with Zorn's choice of Mitchell, which, at the end of the day, was the right choice to make.
