"I just want to make sure that I don't have so much pride in having to have all the answers that somebody can't come in and look and see what I'm doing." "When the suggestion was made, I was open to it," Zorn said. He was part of three Super Bowl championship teams in San Francisco and one in Green Bay.
Lewis, after all, had an accomplished career as an assistant coach for more than two decades in the NFL. Zorn said he wasn't looking for help, but he doesn't want pride to get in the way of accepting it. He's here to have a set of eyes and he should look at things that maybe we don't see, and that's really what I want from him." He won't be calling the plays - that's still Zorn's job. He'll watch film, go to practice and sit in the upstairs coaches' booth during games, using his extensive knowledge of the West Coast offense to make suggestions. "But you never know what he has in store for us." "I don't feel like it's going to change a whole lot," Moss said. Unless Lewis can block or catch, there's only so much he can do to help a fragile offensive line or a receiving corps that remains overly reliant on Santana Moss. The open question is whether the Redskins, who are 2-2 despite averaging 14 points per game, have the offensive talent to succeed. If he sees something in our scheme that we don't see, I hope he can tell us. "I think we're doing the scheme the right way. "I don't think he's going to tell us something we don't already know," Smith said. Offensive coordinator Sherman Smith echoed a familiar sentiment: The basics of the offense are just fine. Still, the tension was evident at Redskins Park. I thought it'd be a change for me, and I thought I might be able to help." I wasn't planning on coaching, so I'm not looking for anybody's job. "I talked to Jim about it last night, just to let him know that I'm just here to help," Lewis said. Among the topics of discussion: Lewis stressed he doesn't plan to be a head-coach-in-waiting, on standby to take over if the team continues to flounder.
Lewis then met with Zorn for the first time, and the two watched film from the team's 16-13 victory over Tampa Bay. The front office hired Lewis to be a consultant - a "fresh set of eyes," in Cerrato's oft-repeated words - for an offense that has yet to score consistently since Zorn became coach last year. Lewis' new itinerary included a flight to Washington on Tuesday and evening meetings with owner Dan Snyder and executive vice president for football operations Vinny Cerrato.
"And I had to cancel my Meals on Wheels today." "I had to go to the senior center and cancel my bingo calling," said the 67-year-old Lewis, who last worked in the NFL with the Detroit Lions during the 2004 season. Less than 24 hours after getting the call at his home in the outer Detroit suburbs, the longtime NFL assistant was on the field Wednesday observing Redskins practice - with all sides trying not to portray his presence as a vote of no confidence in coach Jim Zorn. Lewis, therefore, left behind one set of "I's" - I-18? I-20? - and instead became a "fresh set of eyes," inserting himself in an awkward situation with a struggling team. Retired for nearly five years, Sherman Lewis was about to go to the senior center to call a bingo game when the Washington Redskins phoned.
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