Rams hire Groh as passing game coordinator

Passing game cant get any worse,
right?

Thats all i got.

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wv wrote:

Passing game cant get any worse,
right?

Thats all i got.

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probably not although i’m afraid to ask.

most of all they need to get a legit quarterback. that’ll probably take care of a lot of problems.

Rams hire Mike Groh as receivers coach, passing game coordinator

Nick Wagoner

http://espn.go.com/blog/st-louis-rams/post/_/id/26282/rams-hire-mike-groh-as-receivers-coach-passing-game-coordinator

EARTH CITY, Mo. — The Los Angeles Rams have one less piece of business to take care of this offseason. On Monday, Rams coach Jeff Fisher hired Mike Groh as his receivers coach and passing game coordinator, the team confirmed.

Groh, the son of former Virginia head coach Al Groh, spent the past three seasons as the receivers coach for the Chicago Bears. He replaces Ray Sherman in his new role with the Rams but with the expanded duties of being in charge of the passing game.

“I’m very excited to have Coach Groh join our staff,” Fisher said in a team release. “He’s a talented, young coach that has proven himself on the college level as well as in the NFL. We’re looking forward to what he will bring to our offense.”

In the passing game coordinator role, it’s expected that Groh will help presumptive offensive coordinator Rob Boras in trying to spark a passing attack that ranked at the bottom of the league in most major categories. Boras has not yet “officially” been hired to that job, but it’s a move that’s been expected since the end of the season and will probably be cemented sooner than later.

Adding Groh is a way for the Rams to complement Boras’ knowledge of the run game. When Fisher hired Frank Cignetti over Boras for the offensive coordinator job last year, he promoted Boras from tight ends coach to a bigger role that focused on the run game. With that still Boras’ primary focus, the Rams have spent time seeking someone who can bolster their ailing passing game.

Over the past few weeks, the Rams have been connected to and/or in contact with the likes of John DeFilippo and Pat Shurmur, but they opted to go to Philadelphia and Minnesota, respectively. Tennessee’s Jason Michael and Miami’s Shawn Jefferson have also been bandied about as possibilities for roles with the Rams but chose other landing spots.

Groh played quarterback at the University of Virginia and has steadily climbed the coaching ladder since. He’s spent time in various capacities with the New York Jets and at Virginia, Louisville and Alabama before spending the past three years with the Bears. In Chicago, Groh worked with the likes of receivers Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery, both of whom posted 1,000-yard receiving seasons with Groh in charge.

Fisher’s staff still has openings for running backs and tight ends coaches

Mike Groh’s departure puts Bears on search

http://chicago.suntimes.com/bears-football/7/71/1277364/mike-grohs-departure-puts-bears-back-market

The Bears are in the market for a position coach after all.

Mike Groh was named the Rams’ passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach Monday, two days after the Bears appeared to fill their final major coaching staff vacancy by adding quarterbacks coach Dave Ragone.

Bears coach John Fox should seek Groh’s replacement at wide receivers coach this week at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., a de facto job fair.

Losing Groh is a blow to the Bears. In three seasons — under two different head coaches — Groh coached a unit that was dynamic when healthy. Brandon Marshall surpassed 1,000 yards in 2013, and Alshon Jeffery did in 2013 and 2014.

Jeffery, who can enter free agency this offseason, figures to return for at least one year; the Bears can offer him the franchise tag if they don’t reach a long-term agreement.

“I’m very excited to have coach Groh join our staff,” Rams head coach Jeff Fisher said in a release Monday. “He’s a talented young coach that has proven himself on the college level as well as in the NFL. We’re looking forward to what he will bring to our offense.”

Groh was one of two Bears coaches retained by Fox last year from Marc Trestman’s staff and the only one to stay with the same position group.

The Bears’ offensive staff will look drastically different next year. Former coordinator Adam Gase, now the Dolphins’ head coach, brought offensive assistant Bo Hardegree to Miami as his quarterbacks coach last week. Former Bears assistant strength and conditioning coach Jim Arthur will work for Gase, the Dolphins announced Monday.

The Bears need to hire an assistant special teams coach, too, after Derius Swinton agreed to become the 49ers’ coordinator last week.

from off the net

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TSFH Fan

So, Groh did third down game planning and Bears were 6th in the league in third down conversion rate. That’s got to be a plus, right?

“Coach John Fox opted to retain Groh after taking over last season. His duties included game-planning for third-down situations. His guidance helped keep the offense functional in 2015 despite a rash of injuries at receiver.”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-mike-groh-rams-20160125-story.html

PA Ram wrote:

It just seems like a complicated set-up. Should we also bring in a 2nd down specialist? A first down specialist? A 4th down specialist?

Is this what the NFL has become?

Remember the days when you had one OC and he was in charge of everything?

Just seems weird to me–with a lot of moving parts to get jammed up.

I hope it works.

I dunno…I get the impression that dividing tasks in game-planning is normal. That of course includes perennial winning teams. Heck you can hear things about the GSOT Vermeil/Martz teams where that was already the case.

Herzog wrote:

Didn’t that 99 team have co defensive coordinators?

I don;t think this is co-coordinators though, like that was.

And yes, 99, Giunta and Bunting.

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wv wrote:

I’m still wonderin why Fisher got rid of Jeff Garcia.
Fisher kinda raved about Garcia,
and found a spot for him, and then dumps him
after one year. Wonder why?

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Didn’t Garcia say something about being QB? Maybe they are going to give him a try out?

I would rather have Bert Jones.

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from off the net

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Rams Junkie

Video Link to an old Mike Groh interview

He speaks about being hired by Trestman, working with Jeffery and Marshall, WRs blocking/being complete players etc.

I imagine Nick Saban would be another coaching influence from his 2 years at Alabama.

http://www.chicagobears.com/multimedia/videos/CSN-Mike-Groh-Interview/e9451ee5-7333-4e45-858a-56ee295a671e

This is one of my favorite fisher-hires.

I got nuthin to base that on.

I just like Groh’s influence-tree.

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“…You can’t live in the past —
we’ve got to move on to the next play.
And just be process oriented.
We dont’ want to worry about the results,
we want to stay in the moment,
stay in the process
and the results will take care of themselves.”

Groh sounds a little zen-nish.
A bit Phil-Jacksonish.

A new-age passing-co-ordinater.

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