InvaderRam wrote:

yeah. it’s really hard to grasp sometimes. just a special time in rams’ history.

just how special we’ll have to find out.

Coulda had Matt Patricia.

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LA Rams Talking To Big-Name Candidates In Head Coach Search

January 9, 2017 / CBS Baltimore

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams are casting a wide net to find their next head coach.

The Rams’ front office is talking to most of the popular candidates for the NFL’s half-dozen coaching vacancies as they begin rebuilding from their 4-12 season.

The Rams already have interviewed Atlanta offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan, Arizona offensive coordinator Harold Goodwin, Washington offensive coordinator Sean McVay, and Carolina assistant head coach Steve Wilks. They plan to speak with New England coordinators Josh McDaniels and Matt Patricia this weekend, along with Buffalo interim coach Anthony Lynn and other candidates.

Los Angeles lost its final seven games and fired fifth-year head coach Jeff Fisher last month with three games remaining. The Rams have had 13 straight non-winning seasons and haven’t made the playoffs since 2004.

They don’t look close to a playoff return with an offense that has ranked last in the NFL for two straight years, including their homecoming season in Los Angeles. A topflight offensive coach could change that, and the Rams are clearly interested in the top offensive coordinators on the market.

McDaniels, the former Denver Broncos head coach, was the Rams’ offensive coordinator in St. Louis in 2011, when they went 2-14. After coach Steve Spagnuolo was fired, McDaniels returned to the Patriots.

Shanahan, an offensive coordinator for nine seasons, is another top candidate after engineering the Falcons’ high-powered offense this year. Atlanta scored 42 points against the Rams at the Coliseum in December, and Fisher was fired one day later.

Rams general manager Les Snead is among the front office employees speaking to head coaching candidates. Snead’s future with the team still could be in doubt after five losing seasons, but Los Angeles owner Stan Kroenke must be seriously thinking about keeping the GM in place.

The Rams likely don’t have the NFL’s most attractive coaching opening with a mediocre talent base around No. 1 pick Jared Goff and running back Todd Gurley. But the Rams will be attractive to some candidates with their high-profile hometown, a deep-pocketed owner and a palatial new stadium opening in Inglewood in 2019.

“I think the job is very attractive, but I think it’s going to take the right fit,” Rams chief operating officer Kevin Demoff told the team’s official website. “As the jobs stack up, I’m sure there are positives and I’m sure there are negatives. Quite frankly, if you have an opening, there are negatives. That is why you have an opening. The key is, what are the positives to your job?”

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/la-rams-talking-to-big-name-candidates-in-head-coach-search/

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Dolphins fired Mike McDaniel.

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i like this idea

InvaderRam wrote:

bill barnwell at espn makes a good case for maye.

basically he says that while the rams had a more difficult schedule, that doesn’t hold true when you focus on just the pass defenses they faced..

it’ll be close.

Yeah, I’ve seen that argument, but to me its not persuasive. I dont even look at just ‘the defense’. For example, Maye played the Browns. The Browns have a good defense. But they are a bad team. And bad teams just make everything easier for quarterbacks, in my opinion. In a lot of little ways.

The Rams played good defenses on good teams. Playing the Seahawks is not the same as playing the Browns. Playing the Texans and Eagles is not the same as playing bad teams with ‘good pass defenses’. The pressure is different, the situations QBs find themselves in are different, etc.

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zn wrote:

Cardinals fire Jonathan Gannon

Seahawks 14-3
Rams 12-5
SF 12-5
Arizona 3-14

Arizona fans. Man. Just look at the situation.

And i dont see any reason to think those top 3 teams are gonna suddenly fall off next year.
McDonald, McVay, Shannahan.

Is there any kind of QB solution for them?

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…..“When I first came to the NFL, man, the shield really meant something,” he says. “Not to say it doesn’t now. But there is so much individual, global branding, so much star power, and not every voice is heard.”…

…. What then, will he do, when his career ends? Will he identify more as a Lion? Or a Ram?
He’s already split, which speaks to what they’ve built, together, in Los Angeles. “I don’t know,” Stafford says. “It’s gonna be a tough call at some point.”

I dunno why he would have to pick Detroit OR LA to ‘identify’ with. He’s part-lion, part-ram.

Not sure ‘the shield’ ever meant anything except exploitation and profit. I mean, this is the same shield that covered up the concussion issue, etc.

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Saw this today:

This year there were 515 passes thrown against the Jets defense. Zero interceptions.

First time an NFL team has zero INTs.

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Zooey wrote:

Holy shit.

The Falcons fired Raheem Morris. I am stunned.

Holy shit is right. Fired the GM, too.

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