By Zach Wilt, on January 31st, 2012  After spending a season without a quarterbacks coach, the Ravens decided Joe Flacco could use a little love.
The team officially announced on Monday that former Colts head coach Jim Caldwell would be mentoring Flacco. Former Ravens wide receiver and WBAL radio analyst, Qadry Ismail, spent a season with Caldwell in Indianapolis and he thinks that adding Peyton Manning’s former coach will be very beneficial to J-Flaccolicious.
“Jim Caldwell shall enhance your level of play,” Ismail tweeted to Flacco.
He shall, shall he?
Ismail later tweeted that “Caldwell really helped Peyton” during his tenure as the Colts quarterbacks coach from 2002-2008.
The last time the Ravens hired a former head coach to work with Flacco, it didn’t end well. Of course that guy was Jim Zorn.
By Zach Wilt, on January 30th, 2011 Though it’s already been discussed by the BSR commenters, it bares mentioning that Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco let his emotions be heard to owner Steve Bisciotti and head coach John Harbaugh about Jim Zorn’s termination. Aaron Wilson caught up with Flacco at the Polar Bear Plunge on Saturday and the QB unloaded on his disappointments.
“I also feel like a little bit like I’m being attacked,” Flacco said. “You fire the quarterback coach. Usually when you fire a position coach, it’s because you’re not really happy with how that position did. And when I look back on my season and our season as a team, I mean, we won 13 games.
“I felt like I had a pretty good year and you’re firing the quarterback coach? It’s kind of an attack on me, I feel like. You know, it is what it is. It’s not that big of a deal for me to feel like it.”
Flacco expressed that the coaching staff and front office knows that he’s disappointed in their decision to fire Zorn. “I don’t think it was a good decision, and they know that. I expressed that throughout the whole time it was going on, I expressed how much I didn’t think it would be good for us.”
The most telling quote from this story comes from Ravens Insider. “I wasn’t surprised, just disappointed,” Flacco said.
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By Weston Bruner, on January 28th, 2011 Slightly different tactic this time around, folks. This week there were a number of stories that maybe got a small post here or there, but never rose to the level of really getting fleshed out over the course of the week. It could be a comment made here or there, speculation over a signing, or a firing of an assistant coach. So I decided to double back to some interesting headlines in Maryland sports over the week to give another take as we straddle the period between the end of the Ravens season (man, that still stings to write it) and the opening of Spring Training for a year of modestly raised expectations with the Orioles. Let’s line up for that meaningless Pro Bowl kick… READ MORE >>>
By BSR Staff, on January 28th, 2011 Ravens free agent fullback LeRon McClain tweeted his feelings on recently dismissed Quarterbacks Coach Jim Zorn. McClain is just hopeful that some team will give this “awesome coach” a chance.
Do you agree with McClain on Zorn’s bad luck in Baltimore and Washington?
By BSR Staff, on January 27th, 2011 The Ravens have fired quarterbacks coach Jim Zorn. Aaron Wilson of NationalFootballPost.com broke the news on Thursday afternoon.
The Baltimore Ravens have fired quarterbacks coach Jim Zorn after one season, according to a league source with knowledge of the situation.
The former Washington Redskins head coach spent one season in Baltimore coaching Joe Flacco.
According to a source, Zorn wasn’t an ideal fit with the rest of the staff. Privately, he was often described as quirky or odd in terms of his coaching style.
Wilson had tweeted earlier in the week that he was surprised that Baltimore hadn’t sent Zorn to the Senior Bowl. I guess that explains why…
By Zach Wilt, on January 22nd, 2011 You’ve got to hand it to Mike Preston, love him or hate him I still think he’s got the inside track on what is truly going on in the Ravens locker room. Preston spoke with Ravens head coach John Harbaugh after Thursday’s press conference and Harbaugh told him communication issues may have made Joe Flacco hesitant at times during the 2010 season.
But head coach John Harbaugh probably dropped the best gem about the season when pulled aside and asked if there was a disconnect between Flacco, offensive coordinator Cam Cameron and possibly quarterbacks coach Jim Zorn.
“That is legitimate,” said Harbaugh. “There may have been some communication issues which resulted in Joe being hesitant at times. It’s something we have talked about since the end of the season.”
Preston explained the differences in styles between Cameron and Zorn and explains that the Ravens never “found a rhythm” this season.
By Weston Bruner, on January 19th, 2011 Former Ravens quarterbacks coach Hue Jackson has been named head coach of the Oakland Raiders, a team that surprised many in going 8-8 and for a long while contending to win the AFC West despite being unsettled at the quarterback position. I personally saw no reason why the man who orchestrated the tremendous turnaround of this moribund franchise, Tom Cable, wasn’t retained, but that is just how Al Davis does business. In Jackson’s assembling of a new coaching staff, he is likely to target a number of Ravens coaches, including offensive assistant Al Saunders. Quarterbacks coach Jim Zorn is already rumored to be heading to Cleveland to rejoin Mike Holmgren and new head coach Pat Shurmer. Whoever else joins them will certainly be a topic of conversation around Baltimore, but will it matter? What impact will their departures have? READ MORE >>>
By BSR Staff, on November 4th, 2009 Once again sitting in the cellar of the AFC North, the Cleveland Browns are slumping at the time in the season when they should be peaking.
This past week the organization should how unstable they are when they fired general manager George Kokinis who had only held the position since this past offseason. With his departure comes the arrival of former Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar as the team’s new “consultant.” This new hire has started speculations that first year head coach Eric Mangini will be fired, possibly during this week’s bye.
Such a move would send this organization downward, even more so than they already are with Mangini calling the shots. When the Browns hired him this past offseason, they gave him his choice of who the team’s new general manager would be. By giving a head coach such responsibilities, the entire organization is at the mercy of this decision. It would be the easy solution to simply fire Mangini and start completely from scratch starting in week ten, but what will Cleveland be able to accomplish with a new coach for the next seven weeks?
With it being so far into the season, they would need to promote one of their assistants to coach the team on an interim bases until the season is over and they find head into their third coaching search in the past five years. Even though this team has begun the season so poorly, hiring a new coach during the season will only send this team back to ground zero.
I would agree that this team is in need of a new look, but such moves need to be made after the season. All moves should start from the top of the organization with the hiring of a new general manager with experience, with the choice being made by someone other than Mangini, or whoever the head coach is. This will ensure that all the right moves are made with their sights set on making a playoff run in 2010.
Thus far this season, we have seen similar circumstances with the Washington Redskins whose head coach Jim Zorn was on the hot seat until he was given a vote of confidence from the organization. Such “confidence” should be ensured to Mangini for the sake of this entire team that is currently sitting at 1-7, in hopes of keeping the team together and earning some victories starting with the rival Baltimore Ravens in week ten.
By BSR Staff, on October 21st, 2009 As the NFL season approaches the halfway mark, each team is starting to realize whether they are contenders or pretenders. If there was ever any doubt concerning the status of the Washington Redskins, they’re humiliating loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday provided a definite answer…pretenders.
This has been a season of inconsistent play, terrible play calling, and lack of leadership. With all of the contributing factors to the ‘Skins 2-4 start, all pointed fingers have found their way in the direction of second year head coach Jim Zorn. I am one of the many who is ready to see “Zorny” get the boot. As you watch the game it is clear to see the lack of experience he has with being a head coach in the National Football League.
Previous to getting the head coaching job in Washington, his only experience was the Seattle Seahawks quarterbacks coach. Not only does he appear to be lost when making the offensive play calls (his assumed strong point), he never seems to be willing to motivate and challenge his players. This has been the reason why it appears Zorn has lost control of the locker room. Clinton Portis has never been accepting of the head coach and in recent weeks has voiced his discontent when he called for Pro Bowl fullback Mike Sellers to be benched.
Losing your locker room is something that a head coach can not fix, neither is the reputation of a team that has lost to the Chiefs, Lions, and Panthers who have a combined record of 4-13. It is clear now that a change needs to be made as they rank 29th in scoring, and 23rd in total yards. Recently hired “offensive consultant” Sherman Lewis will begin calling plays on offense this week when they face division rival Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night Football. This is the first sign that the end of the Jim Zorn era is upon us. Many believe that when the Redskins take the field in week nine against the Falcons, they will be under the leadership of a new head coach.
Is a new head coach the definite answer? We will find out in time, but it is clear that the organization needs a new look.
As we head to the offseason, names like Mike Shanahan, Mike Holmgren, Jon Gruden, and Bill Cowher will come up as candidates for the head coaching position. I would like to see the Redskins head in a different direction, other than hiring a big name coach. They have tried that with Steve Spurrier, and even Joe Gibbs who was not able to turn this team around. I suggest Daniel Snyder look for the next Andy Reid or Mike Tomlin, a coach who comes from a good organization with an experienced head coach to teach them how to be great leaders. It would be great to see a team with such history as the Redskins, become the organization it once was before Snyder took over. Regardless of whom the new coach is; Snyder needs to get it through his head that you can’t buy a championship. I’m sure Redskin fans are tired of being “champions on paper,” a title they have held for the past ten years.
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After spending a season without a quarterbacks coach, the Ravens decided Joe Flacco could use a little love.
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