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I have thought for a long time now zorn's play calling is to conservative and predictable.

It must have seemed like a great promotional idea last August when ESPN 980 RadioA dreamed it up: gather Washington Redskin quarterbacks Sonny Jurgensen, Joe Theismann, and Jason Campbell on stage for a fan event during the bye week, thisA Tuesday at a Ballston, Virginia, restaurant.

's broken bone in his right ankle - other than that he won't be able to do the Electric Slide for a while - is that it gives the Redskins another excuse.

Jim Zorn was stripped of his play-calling duties after last week's a 14-6 loss to Kansas City.

Linebacker Will Witherspoon heads to the end zone after intercepting a pass by Redskins quarterback Jason Campbell.

A few weeks ago, Sherman Lewis was making the calls. The bingo calls. Lewis, who retired from the NFL coaching ranks after the 2004 season, was volunteering at the Novi Senior Center in Michigan, about 30 miles west of Detroit, and one of his duties was calling out the numbers on bingo night.

The Redskins dispersed for some down time and a bye week. Stop celebrating. They'll be back.

Vinny Cerrato believes he gave Jim Zorn a roster that can make the playoffs. He also said the coach's job status was undecided in the days following the play-caller switch to Sherm Lewis.

Dear Mr. Snyder: Congrats, again you deftly turned our little inside/outside the beltway family squabble into a national drama of epic reality T.V. proportions.

Washington Redskins quarterback Jason Campbell hugs Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb after the Eagles defeated the Redskins 27-17 at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland on October 26, 2009.

On an evening when their all-pro running back was knocked out of the game early with a concussion, when their franchise quarterback was never able to get into a rhythm, when their offensive line was manhandled and their running backs generated just 2 1/2 yards per carry, it was a linebacker who became an Eagle seven days ago that saved the day.

A round of doctor visits and evaluations yesterday has Chris Cooley optimistic that the prognosis for his broken ankle isn't as dire as initially feared.

The Washington Redskins have a 2-5 record and struggle to protect the quarterback, open running lanes, score points and win games.

If the Redskins keep running their team as they are, we're going to have to do a Washington-only offshoot of Shutdown Corner, dealing with nothing but the exploits of Danny "Commodus" Snyder's Declining Roman Empire.

Which Redskins team will it be? When the Eagles visit Washington tonight to take on their NFC East rival, will they encounter the 2-4 team that had the dubious distinction of ending Detroit's 19-game losing streak in Week 3, or the team that swept the Eagles last season? Will they find a team led by Jason Campbell that was so ineffective in last ...

Wow, after watching the Raiders yesterday I was left wondering how that team could beat anyone let alone a team like the Eagles who are hoping to not only contend for the playoffs but the Super Bowl.

With two sacks, Eagles DE Trent Cole led a defense that sacked Jason Campbell six times.

Well, that should quiet things down for a while. The Jim Zorn unemployment watch is over.

"Monday Night Football" analyst Ron Jaworski takes a look at the turmoil surrounding the Washington Redskins : A lot has been said about the play calling for the Washington Redskins this year.

The National Football League's multiple personality of a season rolled onward last week as teams that were dogs became gods, and vice-versa. It's to the point that you can now label entire divisions that way.

Hall of Fame former Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs said Sunday he has no plans to return to the struggling team.

There is an art to calling plays in the National Football League. Sometimes you're Picasso, and sometimes you're a 2-year-old with a crayon and a wall.

The Jim Zorn unemployment watch is over. Jerry Gray, as it turns out, isn't a coach-in-waiting about to get promoted any day now.

The Washington Redskins front office capped a week of high drama Friday with an unexpected vote of confidence in coach Jim Zorn.

WASHINGTON - After learning he could become paralyzed if he continued to play football, Washington Redskins Pro Bowl left tackle Chris Samuels has told people in the organization he will sit out the remainder of the season and plans to retire.

Firkin Fanclub and Stronfighters completed an interesting trade. Firkin Fanclub sends Washington Redskins QB's Jason Campbell and Todd Collins to Strongfighters for WR Anquan Boldin .

Jim Zorn practically warned fans what to expect this season even before it began.

We have all heard the rumors about Joe Gibbs being considered for a GM position with the Redskins.

Sherm Lewis might not be able to save the day, let alone Washington coach Jim Zorn's job, but top receivers who played for Lewis said the Redskins ' new play caller should give new life to their faltering version of the West Coast passing game.

One thing is clear in Washingtona 'the Jim Zorn era is over. Washington Redskins owner, Dan Snyder, has already tried to get ex-Denver Bronco Coach Mike Shanahan to take over this sinking 2-4 team; Shanahan is not willing to do so, stating: "there was little he could do in the middle of the season for them and that changing coaches during the ...

Eagles lost to Raiders 13-9; Redskins lost to Chiefs, 14-6. EAGLES OFFENSE - OVERALL , RUSH , PASS EAGLES DEFENSE - OVERALL , RUSH , PASS REDSKINS OFFENSE - OVERALL , RUSH , PASS REDSKINS DEFENSE - OVERALL , RUSH , PASS STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES - Both teams enter with play-calling issues.

One day this week, shortly before practice, a pair of turkey buzzards perched themselves high on two dying tree limbs overlooking the Redskins practice fields.

First let me say Jim Zorn is not a good head coach. OK, now that that is clear let me also say that Jason Campbell is not a bad quarterback.

Sherman Lewis may be calling the plays, but it'll be a familiar face trying to execute them for the Redskins.

A On a day where the Philadelphia Eagles surprisingly left their heads in Philadelphia before an embarrassing loss to the Oakland Raiders and the Tennessee Titans "quit" in a 59-0 bludgeoning at the hands of the New Patriots, the NFL got a real view of what "Rock Bottom" is in Washington D.C. The Washington Redskins continued to be the ...

Has anyone ever benefitted from working for Daniel Snyder? No one is immune, including coaches, assistants and players NFL notes on Kris Jenkins, Jeff Fisher, Tom Brady and more Watching the slowly unfolding debacle that is the end of the Jim Zorn era in Washington, with the Redskins floundering head coach being stripped of his authority, his ...

Jason Campbell will remain the Redskins' starting quarterback. Coach Jim Zorn said yesterday he will stick with Campbell for Monday night's game against the Eagles.

The Chicago Bears and quarterback Jay Cutler have agreed on a two-year contract extension that runs through the 2013 season.

At the local sports bars, frustration fuels the conversation in Redskins nation.

There's an old, old saying that, "A fish rots from the head down." It dates in English from at least 1674 and has probably hung around all these years because it's true.

Jason Campbell will get the start at quarterback this week for the Washington Redskins , a league source told ESPN.com's Matt Mosley on Monday.

Although he ceded play calling duties to newly hired consultant Sherman Lewis, Redskins head coach stated that the decsion on who starts at quarterback remains with him.

Todd Collins has replaced Jason Campbell as Washington Redskins quarterback to start the second half against the Kansas City Chiefs.

It seems the chiefs at Redskin Park have convened something of a death panel for the team.

So, Frank Gifford, are you bummed out that your 1954 New York Giants are about to lose a place in the record books to the 2009 Washington Redskins? "Not at all," the Hall of Fame running back said with a laugh.

Two prominent Washington Redskisn players on offense and a veteran defensive player told The Washington Post they want team management to publicly address coach Jim Zorn's job security.

Of course Carlos Rogers is right when he says 'it starts with ownership.' It always does. The Steelers' success in Pittsburgh starts with Dan Rooney. The Red Sox' success in Boston starts with John Henry. The Clippers' incompetence in Los Angeles starts with Donald Sterling.

Rogers's statement to reporters this week carries some shock value because players very rarely, if ever, include the owner in the list of reasons teams can't win. Usually, players limit any mention of ownership to thanking the man who signs the check. But I'd better not hear anybody suggest Rogers's reasoning is flawed because the issues confronting the Redskins absolutely start with ownership.

The booing fans and critical talk-radio yakkers are hardly the only ones giving the reeling Washington Redskins a hard time lately.

Jim Zorn repeated the same things at his news conference Monday that he has said week after week in this wreck of a season.

On the day Coach Jim Zorn learned he would be without his Pro Bowl left tackle for at least one week, he uncomfortably fielded questions about how the Washington Redskins had built their shaky offensive line. He said that the team made 'a strong effort to seek a free agent' in the offseason, and, when asked whether the team should be addressing its line needs in the draft, Zorn said: 'Yeah, yeah, sometimes you have to do that.'

But for the most part, the Redskins haven't done that in recent years, and they're now faced with fielding a patchwork offensive line against the winless Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.

At this rate you'd expect the Redskins' next opponent will be a directional school, or maybe even a Championship Subdivision team.

Once again, the medicore Washington Redskin offense fails to perform against the Panthers in a loss after being up 17-2. There is plenty of criticism of Jim Zorn, but none of Jason Campbell.

Aided by a disputed call and Jake Delhomme's bold third-down run, the Carolina Panthers jump-started a sagging season at the expense of embattled Washington coach Jim Zorn.

In the 2008 draft, Washington selected two receivers in the second round, hoping one might emerge into a starring role.

At its best, the West Coast offense is beautiful: Joe Montana hitting Jerry Rice with Rolex timing, Rice galloping after the catch, Bill Walsh standing on the sideline beaming at his creation. Textbooks have been written about it. Super Bowls have been won with it.

Jim Zorn's Washington Redskins run a version of that same offense, though the results thus far have made it scarcely recognizable. Twenty games into Zorn's tenure as both the Redskins' head coach and play-caller, the team's management deemed it necessary to hire an offensive consultant, one whose background in the West Coast system traces to Walsh and those San Francisco 49ers.

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When new offensive consultant Sherman Lewis , the longtime West Coast disciple, gets up to speed he's likely to notice that the O-line is struggling, the run game needs a shot of speed and the receivers - outside of WR Santana Moss and TE Chris Cooley - need to run better routes and finish plays.

The Buccaneers came into Washington DC on Sunday, looking for their first win of the 2009 NFL season.

NFL coaches are using athletic tight ends to take advantage of mismatches more than ever.

The crisis has gotten so bad that maybe the NFL should consider a fantasy football bailout package.

What would you say you do here? Daniel Snyder and Vinny Cerrato have hired former Green Bay Packers assistant ,Sherman Lewis as an offensive consultant to add, "another pair of eyes" to assist Jim Zorn, in pulling the Redskins out of their offensive funk.

ASHBURN, Va. - So, Jim Zorn, all you've got at the one-quarter mark of the season are two narrow, ugly victories over a pair of winless teams.

The enormity of the NFL season can be tough to swallow at times, so Redskins Coach Jim Zorn prefers to divide the 16-game schedule into quarters. The four-game chunks are easier for coaches, players and fans to digest.

On Monday, the day after the Redskins beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 16-13, and evened their record at 2-2, Zorn used broad strokes to evaluate his goals for the next four-game stretch of the season: 'Have more consistency on offense and keep things going the way they are everywhere else,' he said.

Within the first two minutes, the Washington Redskins had given up two sacks and lost a fumble.

After not practicing all week because of a bad calf and ankles, Clinton Portis got off to a slow start with just 19 yards on his first seven carries.

After watching the first half of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the Washington Redskins, I wondered how Jim Zorn could leave Jason Campbell in the game after a fumble and two interceptions? Jason's quarterback ranking for the first half was 18.1. The second half began with cornerback Donte Hall intercepting a wayward Josh Johnson throw.

The final piece of advice quarterback Josh Johnson received before his first NFL start Sunday was to make sure the team photographer took as many pictures of him as possible because - win or lose - he'd want to remember this day.

Ronde Barber blocks Shaun Suisham's third-quarter extra point to keep the Bucs ahead 10-9. For his career, Barber now has blocked a punt, field goal and extra point.

The Washington Redskins were booed off the field again, down 10 points at halftime to a winless team.

With Albert Haynesworth commanding a double team at one tackle spot, the lesser-known Cornelius Griffin has sparkled this year.

Joe Theismann was in trouble in October 1981. In his fourth year as Washington's starting quarterback, he was throwing more interceptions than touchdowns and getting sacked too often.

Tony Dungy was among the league's most successful and respected coaches while leading the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts.

Much has been said on this board about the problems with the Washington Redskins this season.

Redskins.com breaks down some of the key matchups to keep an eye on during Sunday's Redskins-Lions game at FedExField.

Here are five suggestions for Washington Redskins coach Jim Zorn to turn the team around.

Ford Field erupted in uncharacteristic fashion at the end of the game against the Washington Redskins as the success-inept Detroit Lions claimed their first victory in 22 months.

Final observations of the Redskins ' 19-14 loss to Detroit: * Jim Zorn's best game-plan decision was committing to the pass in general and in particular on the Redskins ' opening drive, which started at the Washington 24-yard line and ended at the Detroit 1. Jason Campbell dropped back on seven of the first eight snaps .

If you have Clinton Portis on your fantasy football team, you're probably feeling a little paranoid right now.