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WASHINGTON, DC – Further continuing the effort to right the ship wayward ship that is his franchise, Dan Snyder said today that head coach Jim Zorn will no longer be in charge of contacting and speaking to his own family and that former NFL head coach Lindy Infante will now perform those functions.
It’s been quite the vexing week for the second year coach, who has come under fire of late for getting the Redskins off to a disappointing 2-4 start. On Monday, it was announced that Zorn would no longer be responsible for calling the plays for the underperforming Redskins. Instead, that task now belongs to former NFL coordinator-cum-bingo magnate Sherm Lewis. Zorn himself admitted that the decision to prohibit from talking to his wife Joy and their four children during the season blindsided him somewhat but was willing to give it a try if it’s for the good of the team.
“If Dan and Vinny really feel that the three minutes a day I spend corresponding with my family are a detriment to this football team, than I’m willing to give it a try,” said the visibly shaken Zorn. “[John] Riggins may be a stark-raving-mad and delusional, backwoods lunatic but he’s correct in that I may be in a little over my head. At that point, you need to make concessions. My family will understand.”
The 69 year old Infante’s last stint in the NFL came in 1997 as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. He was also once the head coach of the Green Bay Packers, the USFL’s Jacksonville Bulls and, according to his Wikipedia page, can “eat a foot-long hotdog in a single bite”.
