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Vinny discussses Zorn on ESPN
By: John Keim
Examiner Staff Writer
10/26/09 7:01 PM EDT
Redskins executive vice president Vinny Cerrato told ESPN's Sal Paolantonio that he never asked Jim Zorn to resign. And he again disputed comments made by Zorn's best friend, Steve Largent.
"He has a right to make a comment," Cerrato said. "A lot of things he said he doesn't really know any details of anything he talked about."
Cerrato declined to endorse Zorn beyond this season.
"We're just worried about Philadelphia," Cerrato said. "We've got 10 games to play. We have a long season ahead of us. We're worried about this season right now and thereafter. We just want to focus on now. Where we're going now."
Once again, he defended new play-caller Sherman Lewis, who was hired as a consultant on Oct. 6.
“He has the experience and it’s like riding a bike, you don’t ride a bike for a couple of years, you get back on, it’s easy to ride the bike,” Cerrato said. “He’s been in this offense 20-some years, calling these plays and knowing this offense. He knows this offense backward and forward.”
He also was asked about waiting five days after the Lewis move before issuing a vote of confidence for Zorn. In reality, it was more like a few weeks; Zorn's fate has been widely discussed and Cerrato was asked about it on a conference call the day Lewis was hired. At the time, Cerrato felt no need to say Zorn's job was safe. All he would say is that he was the Redskins' coach.
“Dan [Snyder], myself and the organization want this to be successful," Cerrato said. "We expected to be 3-3 [after entering the KC game 2-3]. It took a little bit of time to recover from the loss and then figure out what we’re going to do and what’s what we did.”
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