Reports out of Georgia that Schottenheimer is the new offensive coordinator

hmmm… interesting. i dunno. would schotty know either way if a move is happening???

maybe he does want the college head coaching gig eventually. maybe he doesn’t like the grind of a pro football season.

more importantly. what does this mean for sam bradford???

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Agamemnon wrote:

I don’t think he was forced out. I think family played a part in his decision. imo The Georgia fans seem to be happy to have him.

How do you mean family? IE how did family factor in to his decision, you think?

wv wrote:

Well. The off-season’s gettin interesting,
early
this year.

I wonder if BS jumped
or was pushed.
I hope he was pushed,
cause if he jumped it might mean
he dont like the QB situation
for next year.

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v

There could be other reasons to jump.

One being, the move maybe.

whatever the reason this kind of sucks.

this puts bradford’s situation more in limbo. part of the appeal of bringing him back was sam having experience in this offense. now everyone is starting over again. i hope they promote someone from within? are there any internal candidates for the job. if they bring in someone new are they that more likely to just get a new qb? this must make bradford’s future more cloudy.

Just finished talking with GM Les Snead, who said that this was a move Schottenheimer thought was best for him & his family.

I wasn’t doubting you, I just didn’t know what you meant. In what sense best? I know it’s just speculation on our part…..

here’s some stuff on cignetti. i like this hire cuz he’s worked with sam (and i’m assuming bradford is still very much in their plans). he was his quarterbacks coach, and he runs a ball control offense which falls in line with fisher’s philosophy. he’s also been a coordinator although at the college level.

interesting note. he worked alongside mike mccarthy when they were both at pittsburgh.

http://www.turfshowtimes.com/2012/2/7/2782957/st-louis-rams-quarterbacks-coach-frank-cignetti

http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2011/08/politi_rutgers_frank_cignetti.html

I have no idea bout offensive coordinators. Whatever the Rams do they gotta have a solid OL or the rest is just gonna suffer it seems.

i don’t know. i don’t know that you can compare bradford who is facing a huge uphill climb just to be able to play to two quarterbacks with superbowl experience. i mean flacco and manning have both enjoyed tremendous success.

i don’t know if bradford is at the same point manning and flacco were at last year. maybe it can happen. i really doubt it. but anything is possible.

joe flacco – 96 games through 2013. cam cameron his oc from 2008-2012. then caldwell from 2012-2013 before switching. (caldwell and cameron shared duties in 2012.)
eli manning – 153 games through 2013. worked with kevin gilbride as qb coach or oc for ten years before 2014.
sam bradford – 49 games so far. didn’t even play last year. 3 different coordinators.

i just don’t see it as any sort of recipe for success. this really hurts bradford’s chances next year. especially if they pick someone bradford isn’t familiar with. so he’s going to learn a new offense while also trying to rehab from major reconstructive surgery. which flacco and manning didn’t have to wrestle with as they made the transition.

zn wrote:

Well a lot of learning a new offense is sitting down and reading.

And, coming back from surgery, he is going to have to re-tool his mechanics anyway, that is, rep and re-acquire them. Might as well learn a new version.

Flacco was drafted 2 years before Bradford. It’s not like Flacco is ancient.

I do not see this as a big impediment. Honest, I really don’t.

i would have to disagree. i know where this is going. we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

but. while flacco only has 2 years on bradford. he’s got twice as many games. he spent the majority of his career with the same coordinator while also not suffering 2 major injuries. well. 3 if you count his last year at oklahoma. that’s not even including the ankle injury which caused him to miss games.

i just don’t think flacco or manning’s 2014 season come close to the challenges bradford is having to overcome in 2015.

i also don’t see an oc coming in from the outside having any reason to try and build an offense with a qb who can’t stay healthy and doesn’t know his system. i mean he has fisher on his side. so he has that going for him. although who knows now that schotty is gone. maybe a lot of that was contingent on schotty coming back and bradford being in the system for 3 years.

i also realize i’m being overly-negative right now, so i should just stop right here.

If they change systems, I would think it would,
once again, lead to a slow start.
I mean, its not just the QB who has to learn
a new system, its Tavon, Stedman, etc.

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v

wv wrote:

If they change systems, I would think it would,
once again, lead to a slow start.
I mean, its not just the QB who has to learn
a new system, its Tavon, Stedman, etc.

w
v

Means they would entirely change how they run block and even the kind of linemen they look for.

Of course, Bradford was already in a WCO for a couple of years.

Agamemnon wrote:

The family might have a better quality of life in a college atmosphere.

Makes perfect sense.

Athens. The B52s………..

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I have, and have never had a problem with Shotty’s play calling. I seem to be in the minority, but I also, always try to look at the whole picture, which changes, game to game, season to season, QB to QB, RB to RB, etc. We have been dealt crappy hand for several years now, and have absolutely no stability, in any phase of the game, for several years now. Fisher took on a complete rebuild, then didn’t have the services of the one guy that he came over here for, neither did Shotty, who got to work with rookies, UDFA QB’s, backup QB’s, UDFA RB’s, a horrible offensive line, which has been addressed, but didn’t really pan out. Receivers that have taken a while to develop, etc.

Oh, and we seem to play the toughest schedule in football almost every year. I’m not crying, I’m not making excuses, this is fact.

I wish Brian well, he was better than a lot of OC’s that I’ve seen in my 40+ years as a Rams fan. I hope that we find a genius to replace him, and I also hope that we don’t have any more devastating injuries in the near future, because we have had more than our share. I hope that we hit on every offensive lineman that we bring in from now on, as well as get stability from our QB’s, whomever they may be. Without these things, we will never be the team that we all want us to be.

I’m still with Fisher, and Snead, and I think we are still going on the right direction, as long as we can get a couple positions in place, and sorted.