The Other Washington is Screwing This One

Only the hardest of dorks will care, but the Seahawks have now lost two offensive coaches to our NFC rivals the Washington Redskins. Former Seahawk quarterbacks coach and long-time quarterback Jim Zorn was named head coach in the other Washington several days ago. Today, the departure of our running backs coach Stump Mitchell to the Redskins was announced.

In a strange turn of events, according to The Washington Post, the Seahawks are bringing in the awesomely-named Bill Lazor, who was most recently the Redskins quarterbacks coach. Consider it an awkward cross-contamination of offensive football minds between two teams who have met in the playoffs twice in the last five years.

The significance of a running backs coach is most likely relative to the team’s talent at the position. But, the fact that now two people with intimate knowledge of coach Holmgren’s West Coast Offense will be playing for an enemy Seattle had to come from behind to beat in the fourth quarter of a playoff game just last season, is a bit unnerving to those of us who already find ourselves restless a couple of weeks into the offseason.

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