Zorn Calls ‘Skins “Soft”
In the postgame press conference after the Redskins 23-0 preseason loss to the Baltimore Ravens, Coach Jim Zorn clearly wasn’t happy with his team’s effort. Tracee Hamilton of The Washington Post wrote an article on Saturday aimed strictly at Zorn’s displeasure.
“We missed tackles, we were soft in other areas, both offensively and defensively, soft playing with that kind of intensity,” he said. “I thought there was a lot of guys out there playing, but they didn’t realize how difficult a game this really is and we paid for it in some of the situations.”
The Redskins suffered a troublesome loss to the Ravens on Thursday night, with the team not progressing past the Ravens’ 30 yard line and giving up 500 yards of total offense to the Ravens.
Despite holding out new free agent Albert Haynesworth, the Redskins’ first-string defense very much maintained a bend-but-don’t-break mentality against Ravens QB Joe Flacco and his first-string offense.
While the preseason often results in little meaningful information, Coach Zorn is working with everything he got from Thursday’s game.
“That was the first test,” Zorn said. “It was a difficult test for some of these guys. Some failed; some came through with flying colors; some now need to rise up.”
