{"id":135154,"date":"2010-01-04T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=87126"},"modified":"2010-01-04T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T13:56:11","slug":"jim-zorn-fired-as-head-coach-of-washington-redskins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/135154","title":{"rendered":"Jim Zorn Fired As Head Coach Of Washington Redskins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washingtonians have seen the last of Jim Zorn. The Washington Redskins fired its disgraced head coach shortly after the team returned to Redskins Park following a season-ending 23-20 loss to the San Diego Chargers early Monday, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/04\/AR2010010400885.html\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/em> has learned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Jim-Zorn-Fired-500x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jim Zorn Fired\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-87135\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-87126\"><\/span><br \/>\nThe loss ended the Skins&#8217; worst season in nearly 15 years: the team finished with a 4-12 record.  <\/p>\n<p>It was Redskins Executive Vice President\/General Manager Bruce Allen who announced that Zorn has been dismissed and will not return as the franchise\u2019s head coach in 2010. In a statement, Allen, who has been team General Manager for three weeks, said he <em>&#8220;felt it was necessary to not waste a moment of time building this team into a winner.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Good luck with that, buddy&#8230;..)<\/p>\n<p>Allen explained that his three-week game observation period was all the time he needed to make the decision that Zorn needed to go.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The status quo is not acceptable. I felt it was necessary to not waste a moment of time building this team into a winner.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Zorn was 12-20 over two seasons as head coach of The Washington Redskins. He was 6-18 in his last 24 games and still had one year left on his contract.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bKwux3iZ9tZZIT9VVo_Va_RjJb0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bKwux3iZ9tZZIT9VVo_Va_RjJb0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bKwux3iZ9tZZIT9VVo_Va_RjJb0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bKwux3iZ9tZZIT9VVo_Va_RjJb0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washingtonians have seen the last of Jim Zorn. The Washington Redskins fired its disgraced head coach shortly after the team returned to Redskins Park following a season-ending 23-20 loss to the San Diego Chargers early Monday, The Washington Post has learned. The loss ended the Skins&#8217; worst season in nearly 15 years: the team finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}