Palermo New DL Coach?

Valjean · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 86

"An NFL source said that John Palermo, who coached at Notre Dame in 1988-89
when Redskins executive vice president Vinny Cerrato was the recruiting
coordinator, will be hired as Washington's defensive line coach, filling the
void created by Greg Blache's promotion to defensive coordinator last month.

Palermo, now at the University of Miami, has coached in bowls in 17 of his
27 seasons. He coached Big Ten Defensive Players of the Year Erasmus James
and Wendell Bryant at Wisconsin and Lombardi Trophy winner Chris Zorich,
later a Redskin, at Notre Dame. Palmero was head coach at Austin Peay in
1990."

A buddy of Cerrato's now? Looks like he's going to have insinuated his
former associate into the D just as a head coach salts his roster with his
former players! Gee, what's a new head coach going to DO with Cerrato in
that role he's got going too???? Any HC can't be expected to be much of a
CEO *now*, can he???

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Valjean · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 86

An interesting sidelight to this all is that shortly after Greg Blache was
made the team's new OC in January, there was an announcement that Blache's
long-time partner in crime, Larry Brooks, would be hired and replace him as
DL coach. Then, that fell through--and now a Cerrato protege is suddenly set
to replace Greg in that role. And, although the guy is no novice at coaching
DLs, he has *no*--that's N-O--previous NFL experience to go by. How they
ever got him to come has got to be a mystery beyond belief.

"Valjean" wrote in message $RI.0@newsfe06.lga...
> "An NFL source said that John Palermo, who coached at Notre Dame in
> 1988-89 when Redskins executive vice president Vinny Cerrato was the
> recruiting coordinator, will be hired as Washington's defensive line
> coach, filling the void created by Greg Blache's promotion to defensive
> coordinator last month.
>
>
> Palermo, now at the University of Miami, has coached in bowls in 17 of his
> 27 seasons. He coached Big Ten Defensive Players of the Year Erasmus James
> and Wendell Bryant at Wisconsin and Lombardi Trophy winner Chris Zorich,
> later a Redskin, at Notre Dame. Palmero was head coach at Austin Peay in
> 1990."
>
> A buddy of Cerrato's now? Looks like he's going to have insinuated his
> former associate into the D just as a head coach salts his roster with his
> former players! Gee, what's a new head coach going to DO with Cerrato in
> that role he's got going too???? Any HC can't be expected to be much of a
> CEO *now*, can he???
>
>

Diamondback · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 16

Let's just hope that now that Vinnie is "on the clock" these decisions
suddenly have some accountability. I'm not holding my breath, I'm just
sayin' ...

"Valjean" wrote in message $iB4.4671@newsfe07.lga...
> An interesting sidelight to this all is that shortly after Greg Blache was
> made the team's new OC in January, there was an announcement that Blache's
> long-time partner in crime, Larry Brooks, would be hired and replace him
> as DL coach. Then, that fell through--and now a Cerrato protege is
> suddenly set to replace Greg in that role. And, although the guy is no
> novice at coaching DLs, he has *no*--that's N-O--previous NFL experience
> to go by. How they ever got him to come has got to be a mystery beyond
> belief.
>
>
> "Valjean" wrote in message
> $RI.0@newsfe06.lga...
>> "An NFL source said that John Palermo, who coached at Notre Dame in
>> 1988-89 when Redskins executive vice president Vinny Cerrato was the
>> recruiting coordinator, will be hired as Washington's defensive line
>> coach, filling the void created by Greg Blache's promotion to defensive
>> coordinator last month.
>>
>>
>> Palermo, now at the University of Miami, has coached in bowls in 17 of
>> his 27 seasons. He coached Big Ten Defensive Players of the Year Erasmus
>> James and Wendell Bryant at Wisconsin and Lombardi Trophy winner Chris
>> Zorich, later a Redskin, at Notre Dame. Palmero was head coach at Austin
>> Peay in 1990."
>>
>> A buddy of Cerrato's now? Looks like he's going to have insinuated his
>> former associate into the D just as a head coach salts his roster with
>> his former players! Gee, what's a new head coach going to DO with Cerrato
>> in that role he's got going too???? Any HC can't be expected to be much
>> of a CEO *now*, can he???
>>
>>
>
>

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