'Worst coach' Zorn assures everyone that he's OK

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Tell the world that you feel like "the worst coach in America" and people will pay attention.

So much so that Jim Zorn spent the next day or so assuring people — players, fans, close friends — that he really hadn't gone off the deep end.

"Lots of people saying, 'Keep your head up, coach,'" the Washington Redskins coach said. "Well, my head wasn't down. ... I had to assure everybody, 'Hey, I'm OK.'"

Two days after his proclamation, uttered out of sheer frustration over the team's 1-5 slide, Zorn and the Redskins returned to the practice field Wednesday. The coach was back to his usual chipper self, a...