OH HAPPY DAY! STEVE SPAGNUOLO FIRED

[Warner2BruceTD]

I will balance this thread with two things I actually like about Spags:

1. He is very aggressive on fourth down. Nobody notices because nobody watches this shit team, but he is not afraid to go for it anywhere near midfield with under 3 yards to go. Percentage wise, it's in the offenses favor, but head coaches are largely pussies who are scared of the media and find it easier to stay conservative and conventional.

2. He seems like a nice man.

That's all i've got.

[ZoneBlitz]

The only thing i have to say about the Rams is that i like them when they wear their throwback unis.

[Hasselbeck]

And let's not forget that the Rams shit the bed in that Seattle game against a Seahawks team that was BEGGING to lose with Charlie Whitehurst at QB that had 6 wins coming into the game.

An embarrassing national TV performance that foreshadowed two more embarrassing national TV performances this season.

Whitehurst mania. It's fantastic.

[Warner2BruceTD]

HOURS AWAY, CAN YOU FEEL THE EXCITEMENT?

[EmpireWF]

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this is blasting in W2B's home this evening.

[Chrispy]

Already known but

Chris Mortensen
Rams will fire coach Steve Spagnuolo and GM Billy Devaney, per team source. #ESPN

[Warner2BruceTD]

Chris Mortensen
Rams will fire coach Steve Spagnuolo and GM Billy Devaney, per team source. #ESPN

Chris Mortensen
Rams will fire coach Steve Spagnuolo and GM Billy Devaney, per team source. #ESPN

Chris Mortensen
Rams will fire coach Steve Spagnuolo and GM Billy Devaney, per team source. #ESPN

Chris Mortensen
Rams will fire coach Steve Spagnuolo and GM Billy Devaney, per team source. #ESPN

I have waited for this glorious day for so long...good riddance, fuck face. I shall never speak your name again. You are forever known going forward as "the coach who shall not be named"

[Warner2BruceTD]

One more final piece of stupidity from ***** ********* at the presser after the loss today. This quote sums up perfectly how clueless ***** ********* was during his NFL all-time worst 10-38 three year tenure...

"I do think there was tremendous growth (this season)" -- Steve Spagnuolo, Jan. 1, 2012.

[Youk]

There was tremendous growth this season. Now they have a top draft pick.

[Guest]

Definitely a good move for the Rams. They also have an owner who should be able to make good hires instead of the previous regime, and the Rams should start improving.

I also read where the opponents for next year have been laid out, and that this is the fifth consecutive year that the Redskins and Rams will play each other. Somethings got to give for each franchise- the history is too great for these recent struggles (though the Redskins go further back.)

[Tailback U]

I'm starting to get worried about Bradford.

He was put on a shitty team with a shitty head coach and has had a couple of injuries now. You gotta think his confidence is shot right now.

[Aso]

The Rams should've drafted Suh and drafted a 1st round QB after the CBA for financial reasons alone and I remembered saying that at the time. Whatever head coach comes in is now forced to go with Bradford as his QB.

[Warner2BruceTD]

I'm starting to get worried about Bradford.

He was put on a shitty team with a shitty head coach and has had a couple of injuries now. You gotta think his confidence is shot right now.

The Rams should've drafted Suh and drafted a 1st round QB after the CBA for financial reasons alone and I remembered saying that at the time. Whatever head coach comes in is now forced to go with Bradford as his QB.

Before the draft last year, while everyone was screaming about Bradford, I was insisting on Suh.

My line of thinking, was some teams are just not ready to draft a QB (I believe larry was the only one to agree with me). The Rams had a bad o-line, bad WR's, and a bad defense. That's a perfect storm to both physically and mentally destory a young QB. The Rams team Bradford was drafted into helped destroy the career of a pretty good veteran Pro Bowl caliber QB (Bulger).

When a team has holes at every position on the field, they need to draft football players, not QB's. Suh is a football player, and he was a sure thing. QB's are NEVER a sure thing. Ever. The Rams could have drafted a QB later in the draft (McCoy) or gotten one later after building a more stable team to surround one with.

People are saying the Rams should draft RGIII, which is even more stupid. Again, this team needs FOOTBALL PLAYERS, it does not need to pay 40-50% of the salary cap on QB's. The Rams need to trade down and acquire as many picks as possible, and get some talent on what is easily the least talented team in the NFL (which has been the case for three years under ***** *********, who failed to increase the talent level with his awful player evaluation).

With all of that said, it's impossible to evaluate Bradford based on 2011. He was playing on a badly injured ankle, with no talent around him, for a terrible coach. Throw it out, it didn't happen.

The Rams will hire a real head coach, a real GM, and finally start acquiring talented football players. Then we will see what Bradford brings to the table. This year goes into the garbage, only the progress of Chris Long can be quantified, the rest was just the result of the incompetent brain trust that will be history tomorrow morning.

[SHOGUN]

You gave Spags the Kevin Steen/ROH treatment.

[SHOGUN]

I'm starting to get worried about Bradford.

He was put on a shitty team with a shitty head coach and has had a couple of injuries now. You gotta think his confidence is shot right now.

Not to mention that he'll probably have his third OC in as many seasons.

A lot of locals have been throwing around the idea of trading Bradford for Luck or Griffin. I want to shake the shit out of them because it's stupid. A shortened off-season with a new offense, the most reliable receiver out of the band of bums he had (Amendola) went down Week 1 and was hobbled most of the year. For all of the chaos he had around him, I felt he did well enough this year.