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Dancing With Yet Another Star
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If he's successful, Zorn's first day as a training camp head coach won't be remembered for the season-ending injuries, but instead a blockbuster deal.
If Taylor fizzles, the Redskins have to bite the bullet and realize they put themselves in this position long before Daniels went down.
By their own doing, they neglected real upgrades to the defensive line. Andre Carter was the only bona fide change the past five years. Demetric Evans and Anthony Montgomery have yet to realize their potential.
Stockpiling big receivers through the draft made sense in its own way, especially with so many mighty mites lining up wide. But wide receivers usually take longer to adjust than bull-rushing linemen, and today there is no time for adjustment. Daniels was not a premier player anymore, but he filled a real need.
Before Taylor was acquired, Zorn was almost morose about his first day on the job. "I could never imagine that," he said, running his fingers through that shock of brown hair. "I don't think any coach plans for that. I have to sit back in my office and think about what that means."
It means his general manager got on the phone to make this great-expectation job easier, to make Life After Joe a little more tolerable for the coach.
Cerrato's ability to get on the phone with Parcells and pry away the guy who's sacked Tom Brady 9 1/2 times in his career (more than any other quarterback Taylor has sacked) was a testament to improvisation and impulsivity in the old-school Snyder way.
No one asked Cerrato whether this was a return to the free-spending, Fantasy Team days of yore, or whether Taylor was merely the reward for their shrewd, restrained free agent ways earlier in the offseason.
Either way, Washington traded for another big name yesterday and put the new organizational mantra of patiently building through the draft on hiatus. Out of necessity, Daniel Snyder has entered into another dalliance with a star.
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