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Of the names being bantered about I like Shanahan and Shaw the best, although I am having to supress a deep seeded revulsion to the possibility of anyone named Shaw being associated with the Rams again.
I could live with Gruden too. The rest of the names don’t trip my trigger.
i’m really warming up to the idea of shanahan.
at first i wasn’t thrilled mostly because of his dad, but he’s been several different places and had success. matt ryan is by far having the best season of his career. it’s not even close. but he’s also worked with young qbs like schaub, robert griffin and cousins. and he’s had strong running games as well.
and while i was at first wary of his dad, i’m thinking he’s got a wealth of information and contacts at his disposal. those denver and washington offenses had very strong running attacks. i think he’d be a good guy to squeeze as much as he can out of gurley and the offensive line. maybe even a guy like alex gibbs could come on as a consultant.
yeah. i think he’d be an excellent match. just wonder if he’d be interested and if he would want to work with goff.
i think goff’s competitiveness got the best of him. i liked that he wants it, but yeah, he’s gotta have awareness.
i liked a lot of his throws. some beauties. still inaccurate at times. my friend texted me that he looked off balance on that throw. i think he’s pressing, and he’s probably a little overwhelmed or frustrated. i’m slightly encouraged, but they have to improve this oline. they have to fix the running game, and they gotta get him some receivers who can catch. or he’s going to go the way of david carr instead of derek carr.
donald was back to his disruptive ways, although those penalties at the end made me cringe. he needs help. he needs some edge rushers to take pressure off him.
I am for hiring Polian to set up the franchise. He can fire Demoff and build from there. Demoff doesn’t do contracts any more, so I don’t need him.
someone. other than demoff. i do NOT want demoff deciding who the next head coach is.
might as well have one of us deciding the next head coach.
So that’s why I say that it was fair to judge his performance after five years. And yes–why it was fair to fire him.
yeah. i agree with that. obviously each situation is different, but reid took a miserable team and turned them around.
but it’s not all on fisher just as reid doesn’t deserve all credit for the turnaround.
the rams need to hire a real football guy. NOT demoff. and let him find the next head coach.
let demoff handle the cap, and that’s it. he should not be involved in the hiring of a head coach. if he has ANY sense, he’ll realize this. hire a football executive who knows the game and let him make the football decisions.
To me, if you had a veteran qb and a coordinator who could adjust to defenses at least as well as Cigz did (who was an experienced OC unlike Boras), then I honestly believe people would not be as down on the OL. It would perform better. Not talking Dallas. But clearly and obviously better. I base that on the fact that they DID perform better when other things were in place to let them.
they never should have traded up for goff.
they should have concentrated on strengthening the oline. perhaps through free agency. they should have focused on restocking the secondary. and gone forward with keenum and mannion.
if the oline wasn’t good enough to deal with a rookie qb, then i put that on coaching and personnel for not recognizing that. there was no need to trade that much to go and draft a rookie qb who didn’t even have experience in a pro system.
and fisher should have hired a veteran offensive coordinator. he had the second half of last year to evaluate boras. keeping him falls on fisher’s shoulders.
the rams should have had the defense and running game to prop the qb position
I have a theory on all that. I would be interested in your response.
In this thread. link: http://theramshuddle.com/topic/so-wtf-happened-to-the-rams-this-year/
i think there’s a lot of truth to that. i didn’t see boras adjusting in game and between games to what opposing defenses were trying to do to the rams. i think that’s perfectly valid. and yeah some of that should have been in his control. a more experienced coordinator could have made those adjustments.
and it’s also true that some of those things were out of his control. having a backup qb who was limited and then going to a rookie qb. it’d be hard for anyone to cope with that. especially on a team as young as the rams.
i would also add that i suspect gurley didn’t prepare for the season like he should have.
i would also contend though that there are things fisher could have done to mitigate those things. if they were out of sync, they could have done things differently to prepare for the season. for example giving the first team more reps in the preseason. not putting gurley in bubble wrap. would that have made a difference? i don’t know. after 13 games they’re still out of sync. they also could have hired a better coordinator. although i should say that i was in favor of the hire. i wanted continuity but was not aware he was so incapable.
i do think another coach could be better prepared to do that than fisher would. that is make adjustments on the fly. fix the running game. and get goff ready to be the franchise qb he was drafted to be.
