ESPN News says Jim Fassel was not offered the Washington job

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No Adult Supervision
Published 1/24/2008 by Ben Folsom at The Curly R: A Washington Redskins Blog
... Adding to the mayhem now ESPN is running a TV report, we'll read it in the morning I guess, that ESPN report linked here at Hogs Haven, that Jim Fassel was not offered the job. ...

Morning Update (Temple to the NFL? Edition)
Published 1/24/2008 by Chris <info@arrowheadpride.com> at Arrowhead Pride: Front Page Posts
Here's a good article from the El-Paso Times on Eric Price, the Chiefs new wide receivers coach. Lots of quotes from his dad, Mike Price, who is also the head coach at UTEP. I know I rolled out of bed this morning and thought, "What is former Chief Junior Siavii up to nowadays?" Arrowhead Addict has the answer. So is Jim Fassel the new head coach of the Redskins or not? The Falcoholic has a warm welcome for the Falcons new head coach. The Chiefs looked at Tennessee QB Eric Ainge ...

Jim Fassel Blames the Bloggers
Published 2/12/2008 by Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog
Jim Fassel Blames the Bloggers I believe Jim Fassel to be a great guy, and I think he probably got treated poorly over the past month, and I would have been fine with him as head coach, but just today the real culprits behind his non-hiring emerged. Their names? Mister Irrelevant ...

Jim Fassel Blames Bloggers for Failure to Get Washington Redskins Head-Coaching Job
Published 2/12/2008 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
Filed under: Redskins, Washington, DCSo why didn't Jim Fassel, who had long been labeled the front runner, get the Washington Redskins head-coaching job? According to Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post's DC Sports Bog, he blamed bloggers in a radio interview today: Because you've got bloggers, and they're saying, 'No, this isn't the right guy, and that ain't the right guy,' and you can't hold the lead, because you are going to take the hit. I mean, when you're the lead dog, you're going to take the hit. And I think the longer it went, the longer it went, the longer it ...

Fassel Blames Bloggers For Ruining Redskins Job
Published 2/13/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
DC SPORTS BOG finds who Jim Fassel really blames for losing out on the Redskins job. Dan Snyder? Jim Zorn? Vinny Cerrato? Nope - ’twas those evil, evil bloggers. The ex-Giants coach said his shot at coaching the ‘Skins was scuttled by online opinionators agitated at such a scenario. As he told the John Thompson Show: “When I got the New York Giants job I remember telling my family that, ‘You know, you cannot hold the lead in these jobs in major markets.’ ...

You Fear Me!
Published 2/13/2008 by Ben Folsom at The Curly R: A Washington Redskins Blog
Left to right: Chris Mottram, Skin Patrol, Unsilent Majority, me. Not pictured: Dan Steinberg (changing tampon) With a hat tip to Steve in Tennessee, the motley crew of bloggers above is getting some tongue in cheek blame from the Washington Post's DC Sports Bog for the tanking of Jim Fassel's bid for head coach of the Redskins, Dan Steinberg singles out these four posts here, here, here and here. Yes it is true there was an outcry against Jim Fassel, so bad that it made it into Jason La Canfora's straight reporting in the print edition of the ...