[Perdogg]

This shows you how truly classless Dan Snyder is. He should have at least giving Greg Williams or Al Saunders a chance to interview for other head coaching jobs.

I hope Dallas hires Greg Williams.

[Perdogg]

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[End Times Sentinel]

What it really shows, (and how terribly predictable) is that Dan Snyder’s pick would be a name that was familiar to the most casual of NFL fans.
To heck with who might be the rising star, if he hasn’t accomplished something elsewhere, which splashed his name across Snyder’s pathetic consciousness, he stood no shot at all.
“Fassel? The guy from the Giants! Yeah, he beat us like a drum a bunch of times, he’s a genius.”
“Jim Zorn? The guy from the Seahawks? Used to throw the bombs to Largent? That was so cool! I want an offense like that! Oh, he’s retired? Well make him the offensive coordinator!”
“I want Buddy Ryan! Man, those 85 Bears were awesome! Oh, he’s 73 and been retired for 12 years? Damn. A son? Yeah! Get me him!!!”
I feel sorry for Redskins faithful who have to root under this buffoon.

[I Hired Craig Livingstone]

“I hope Dallas hires Greg Williams.”

Ouch.

[Rummyfan]

Steve Bisciotti of the Ravens fires Brian Billick, states "There's a Hall-of-Fame coach out there and it's our job to find him" and proceeds to take a chance on John Harbaugh. Now Harbaugh may be a bust, he may be the next Bill Walsh, or something in between, but at least the Ravens are trying to move ahead.

The Danny, OTOH, spends three weeks looking for a coach and comes up with the retread Fassel. Now I'm not knocking Fassel - he took the G-Men to the Super Bowl, and the playoffs a couple of other times besides that run. But.... he was fired as the O-Coordinator in Baltimore and didn't even get that position in KC when he interviewed for it. Anyone who sees this as anything more than a one-year place-holding hire until Cowher or some other big name becomes available, I'd like to hear your opinion.

[MattinNJ]

I'm a Giants fan and think this is a decent hire. As a rookie head coach in 1997, Fassel was coach of the year and won 11 games with Dave Brown, Kent Graham and Danny Kannell as his QB. He went to the Super Bowl in 2000 and the playoffs a few other years when he had a decent QB in Kerry Collins. He probably would have gone deep into the playoffs in '02 (?) when the refs let the game end on a defensive penalty against the 49ers-the FG would have been a chip shot.

He fielded decent teams with Kannell, Kent Graham and Dave Brown as QBs-then gets stuck with Kyle Boller. Poor bastard. I would like to see what he would have done with Eli.

My wild prediction, if forced to decide between Coughlin and Spags, Jerry Reese keeps Spags.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

As a Giants fan this is great news. Fassel is a loser, and the division is now filled with coaches that can’t win the superbowl. So the Giants will not lose anything in terms of the quality of their coaching staff versus the Redskins. Unless the Giants defensive coordinator leaves, that would hurt.