Looking For A Redskin Coach

It may be hard to feel sorry for those making exorbitant sums for coaching football. But I feel sorrow for Gregg Williams, of the Washington Redskins. Here is a coach who by all accounts has earned the right to be the successor of Joe Gibbs as head mentor of the team. Williams has been interviewed four times by owner Daniel Snyder while the latter has interviewed virtually everyone in the Western World for the position except the writer of these little words.

Now words come that the latest "hot coaching prospect" is former New York Giants head coach Jim Fassel. Give me a break! What has Fassel ever done for this Washington franchise? The Redskins would not have won nine games and made the playoffs this past season without the Williams-coached defense.

Snyder owns the team and can do anything he wants and hire anyone he wants. As Michael Wilbon, of The Washington Post, said you can pencil in most seasons that the team, regardless of what it does in the offseason, will end up being about 8-8. There always is high drama in the offseason and it does not always translate into a stellar season. Even the storied Gibbs ended his four-year run on his second tour as coach at 31-36.

Fassel is known as a developer of quarterbacks. The Redskins obviously need a steady hand to develop young Jason Campbell. But has it occurred to anyone that Campbell may not be the star so many believe him to be? I have been high on him, but what if he does not have it? This is not Auburn. This is the National Football League.

Anyway, stay tuned. It should get mighty interesting in the Redskin community this week.