By JOSEPH WHITE CLINTON, Md.

Dan Snyder is embarrassed. He feels terrible. He's also hurt, frustrated and apologetic. Name a downbeat adjective, and he's all over it.

Landover, Md. One good thing about the Washington Redskins burning down to cinders. It has exposed for good the incompetence as an NFL franchise owner of Daniel Snyder, if somewhere there remained a sliver of doubt. A nation of football fans Monday night saw for themselves, in stupefied degrees, the smoking heap that was further trashed, 27-17, by the Philadelphia Eagles at FedEx Field.

By Rick Maese and Jason Reid ASHBURN As Redskins players filed into the locker room following Friday's practice, most hadn't heard that Vinny Cerrato, the team's executive vice president of football operations, had stated publicly that Jim Zorn would finish the season as Washington's head coach. Told of the news, linebacker London Fletcher smiled and pumped his first.

WASHINGTON The Washington Redskins front office capped a week of high drama Friday with an unexpected vote of confidence in coach Jim Zorn. "Jim Zorn is the head coach of the Washington Redskins and will be for the rest of this season, and hopefully into the future," executive vice president of football operations Vinny Cerrato said on his radio show on ESPN980.

Say what you will about Jim Zorn and the job he's doing, but there are right and wrong ways to treat a coach who's desperately treading water. As Zorn flails around in the deep end, the Redskins have decided to throw him a cinder block.

By Rick Maese Ashburn He still has his headset, and that means for now he's technically still the Redskins' head coach. But Jim Zorn left few doubts Monday that management's decision to strip him of his play-calling duties six games into the season was disappointing.

LANDOVER, Md. The NFL player who personifies irrelevance beat Washington's band of pipsqueaks Sunday. Chew on that one, Redskins fans. Rookie Ryan "Mr. Irrelevant" Succop, the last guy picked in the NFL draft, kicked four field goals - two from 46 yards - and the dreadful Kansas City Chiefs beat the disgraceful Redskins 14-6 at FedEx Field.

By Rick Maese Landover, Md. As the Washington Redskins reached a new low, losing for the fourth time this season to a winless team, coach Jim Zorn breathed a deep sigh of frustration and insisted the blame fall on his shoulders.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. The sad truth is the Washington Redskins have only one way to win a football game right now: Hope their defense forces turnovers deep in enemy turf, then pray their sickly offense can spark and sputter some points onto the scoreboard from there.

ASHBURN In a week full of Washington Redskins distractions, here's another one: The starting backfield of Clinton Portis and Mike Sellers had a bit of a spat. Washington Redskins coach Jim Zorn confirmed Friday that running back Portis and fullback Sellers had a verbal confrontation earlier this week.