Norm Chow now?

So I just read a few blurbs about the Rams'Josh McDaniels negotiations breaking down. Reports are sketchy, so we don't know the precise nature of the difficulties. Some believe it is money.

I suspect it is chemistry. I am not sure McDaniels will work well with Coach Spags or Sam Bradford. The synastry looks low.

McDaniels is a Taurus should match with a Scorpio like Bradford extremely well. This is the unity of opposites. Guess what? Not in this particular case. The numbers look... Uhmmm... bad. .

1. Similarity of Interests and Temperament: 114
2. Mutual Success and High Achievement: 94
3. Problem Solving, Communication, and Mutual Understanding: 11
4. Mutual Kindness, Friendliness, Pleasantness, and Peace: 34
5. Aggressiveness, Competition, Power, Success, or Violence: 10
6. Adventurousness, Surprises, Disturbances: 91
7. Shared Creativity, Imagination, and Inspiration: 161

Above 150 is very high. This trait is VERY strong!
125 to 150 is above average. The trait is strong.
115 to 125 is slightly above average. The trait is slightly strong.
85 to 115 is average.
75 to 85 is slightly below average. The trait is slightly weak.
50 to 75 is weak.
50 or lower is VERY weak!

A Taurus like McDaniels has no particular compatibility with Sagittarius like Coach Spags, and the specific numbers look... uhmmmm... bad.

1. Similarity of Interests and Temperament: 86
2. Mutual Success and High Achievement: 56
3. Problem Solving, Communication, and Mutual Understanding: 89
4. Mutual Kindness, Friendliness, Pleasantness, and Peace: 75
5. Aggressiveness, Competition, Power, Success, or Violence: 58
6. Adventurousness, Surprises, Disturbances: 16
7. Shared Creativity, Imagination, and Inspiration: 164

Taurus goes well with a Pisces like Billy Devaney, and the numbers are more interesting in his case, but still not good. So it looks like a programmatic non-fit.

1. Similarity of Interests and Temperament: 143
2. Mutual Success and High Achievement: 114
3. Problem Solving, Communication, and Mutual Understanding: 14
4. Mutual Kindness, Friendliness, Pleasantness, and Peace: 47
5. Aggressiveness, Competition, Power, Success, or Violence: 139
6. Adventurousness, Surprises, Disturbances: 96
7. Shared Creativity, Imagination, and Inspiration: 43

Norm Chow?

Chow is recognized as a great QB developer and a legit offensive genius, but he has had a bad run since he left USC. He didn't get the QB he wanted in Tennessee, and neither did Coach Fisher. He goes to UCLA, which is the most dysfunctional sports organization in the world, and basically nothing happens for him. USC wants him back, but he wants to be reliable and steadfast, so he stays at UCLA. Rick Neuheisel then fires Chow for ass-coverage just a few weeks ago.

Chow should be a head coach somewhere today, but the consensus is that he doesn't interview well. I hope we can look past that and hire the guy. He has great Synastry with Sam Bradford. Check out the numbers.

Bradford vs Chow

1. Similarity of Interests and Temperament: 229
2. Mutual Success and High Achievement: 211
3. Problem Solving, Communication, and Mutual Understanding: 151
4. Mutual Kindness, Friendliness, Pleasantness, and Peace: 105
5. Aggressiveness, Competition, Power, Success, or Violence: 64
6. Adventurousness, Surprises, Disturbances: 111
7. Shared Creativity, Imagination, and Inspiration: 125

The success and the communications scores are the way you would like them to be. Incidentally, Chow is a Taurus dude. Here we see the unity of opposites. The problem is that he doesn't have particularly thrilling scores with Devaney and Spagnuolo.

I checked my own favorite, Mike Leach, but he also happens to have bad specific Synastry with everybody. Strange, I would think he'd be a good 66% fit. Not so.

Incidentally, I checked Brad Childress and he also has bad chemistry with Sam Bradford. Gemini and Scorpio don't go together well. Leonardo DiCaprio and his girl are on the rocks. Katy Perry and Russell Brand ain't going to last. These signs go together like peanut butter and motor oil.

It is tough finding a good coach.

Some quick thoughts about Ram-fan anger at Pat Shurmur

I've been doing some much focused reading on-line during the past 48 hours. The focus has been this: Just what precisely are Ram-fans saying about Pat Shurmur? I would generalize our conversations by saying the following:

• Pat Shurmur doesn't know how to call a game
• He's way to conservative.
• We ran too much
• We didn't run enough
• Way too much dink-n-dunk passing
• He has a tendency to call bad plays in key situations
• We could have scored more points.
• We need to unleash Sam and throw it deep.

9 out of 10 blogs and posts say these things over and over:

Before I analyze this, I want you to know my organizational politics. I hated Pat Shurmur last year. I was the leader of the Comanche scalping party during the off-season of 2010. I was going to personally scalp Shurmur and hang his hair on wigwam post. Needless to say, we did not get it done. I would still like to see a change here, and I am still calling for his scalp.

With that said, there seems to be a misplaced focus of anger among most Ram-fans. Specifically, they seem to think the problem is that Shurmur is not running the West Coast Offense (WCO) properly. In the year 2009, that was absolutely true. In the year 2010... well... let's just say that Shurmur is running a version of the WCO that is reasonably close to the one Walsh himself ran in SF back in 1981. Walsh ran slightly deeper routes than Shurmur did in 2010, but not that much deeper. Add 3 to 6 yards of depth to each pattern and there you have it: Walsh's offense in 1981.

For the record, we should do a quick review of 2009. In 2009 the Rams were a run-first and run-second team. We threw only as a matter of last resort. If you compare Marc Bulger's numbers last season with Sam Bradford's numbers this season, the difference is like night and day. For instance, Marc Bulger threw for a total 1469 yards and 5 touchdowns, finishing 29^th in the league. Sam threw for 3,512 and 18 touchdowns, finishing 12^th in the league. That isn't entire Marc's fault, as I have said many times.

In 2010, the Rams' ran a pass-first offense. Just about all the patterns were horizontal. Very few were vertical. The throws were short, not long. We played a dink-n-dunk, nickel & dime, ball-control short passing game. Small-ball was the name of the game in 2010. By the end of the season, Ram fans were fed up with it.

You and I may well be fed up with it, but one thing we can't say (with truth) is that Shurmur is running the WCO incorrectly. No, he is indeed running the scheme. The WCO is a horizontal, ball-control passing offense. The name of the game is dink-n-dunk, nickle & dime, small-ball. It can be run better, but he is certainly running a version of the system. This is what you get when you run the WCO. When you order a taco, you get a taco. You shouldn't expect a T-Bone.

Young folks today are under the misapprehension that the big-play circus Andy Reid is running with the Eagles is the ultimate example of the West Coast Offense. Perish the thought! Reid may be using WCO terminology in his playbook, but the big-play circus he is running has little or nothing to do with the offense Bill Walsh invented for the Bengals and perfected with the 49ers. The Eagles do not run the WCO. The Rams do.

As you well know, our results in 2010 were far better than in 2009. We scored 289 points vis-a-vis 175 points. We won 7 games, not 1. This is why I shut up for most of the season and stopped swinging on Shurmur's nuts like Tarzan. I started again when Shurmur made key strategic blunders in crucial moments down the stretch. I am not talking about Bradford errors. I'm speaking of putting the offense to sleep with a conservative running game in key moments when we could have slain our enemy by putting points on the board. This happened several times down the stretch.

Two points have to be made clearly:

1. We can fire Shurmur, or let him move to Cleveland (whichever comes first), but unless we take advantage of this critical moment to dump the WCO, we are going to continue to dink-n-dunk. This is what you get with the WCO. When you order a taco, you get a taco. Don't expect a Porterhouse T-Bone.

2. Sam was clearly more effective in the shotgun with receivers spread wide. He was even more effective in a quick-time offense with 3 receivers, a tight end, and a running back next to him. This is what we call the NFL-Spread. It is a version of the College Spread, modified for better protection and support of a better running game in the NFL environment. Most of us were calling for this scheme by the end of the season. I want to remind you that before the 2010 season began, I was advocating a move to this system. Anyone who has watched Oklahoma football over the past 5 or 6 years knows why Sam is more effective in this scheme. Its home for him.

This is why I continue to say that we need to reach out to Mike Leach, one of the few legit Spread-Geniuses currently unemployed on the open market. He's ready to interview tomorrow. Let's get him in and hire him.

Just to give Shurmur and even break, I should say the following things:

• It’s tough to call for vertical shots down field when you have two poor guards and no vertical-threat receivers. You have neither the pass protection nor the hands down field necessary to make the play work.
• If Shurmur had called for more vertical shots, our sack & hit totals would have been higher. Sam might not have finished the season healthy, and we are all very happy that Sam finished the season healthy. Keeping Sam healthy through all 16 games this season was substantial achievement.
• Shurmur called two key vertical shots downfield during the game in Seattle, and Denario Alexander dropped both passes. This happened many other times during 2010 with many other receivers. Basically, none of our guys proved they could go downfield and catch the deep ball in 2010. Alexander is actually the best of our deep receivers right now.
• There are allegations that our offensive conservatism comes from the top. Some think HC Steve Spagnuolo set a “go slow, go safe” policy at the start of the season. Ostensibly, his policy never changed. While this is plausible, I do not know if it is true or not. I never heard any official source proclaim that Spagnuolo wanted a 'go safe go slow' policy at any point during the 2010 season. If you know of such a report, drop me a line with a URL.
• The ball-control nature of the WCO did help our defense quite substantially. The WCO usually produces good time of possession numbers. 12 play drives give your own defense time to reorganize and adjust as well as rest. WCO offenses usually help out their defenses. If we had taken hard vertical shots all the time, we might have scored a bit more, but we would have put our defense on the field quite a bit faster.

Ultimately, I am really pulling for the hiring of Mike Leach in 2011. Those who fear that it will set Sam Back should remember that the Leach’s spread isn’t all that different from the Bob Stoops spread Sam ran in Oklahoma. It will be more like a return home than a new scheme.

Take my Offensive Coordinator… Please!!!!

Mike Sando

Mike Sando, ESPN Blogger for the NFC West, claims that President Mike Holmgren of the Cleveland Browns is very interested in acquiring Pat Shurmur, offensive coordinator of the Rams. Jim Thomas says the same thing. It is unclear whether this would be for the head coaching vacancy or for the offensive coordinator post in Cleveland. Ultimately, I just don’t care.

I have only one response to that story: OH THANK YOU LORD JESUS CHRIST!!! Take him Mike! Take him! We’ll release Pat from his contract effectively immediately. Oh happy day!!! We’ll owe you a big one if you do us the favor. I can’t tell you how happy I am to hear it.

Congratulations to Pat Shurmur on his new post!

No need for a fight now

Just as I was sitting down to hash out my attack strategy, just as I was working on my apologetics for firing Pat Shurmur, this joyous news came down from the heavens. Let us hope is true. This will prevent many a fight online. Now I don’t have to swing on Pat Shurmur’s nuts like Tarzan. This is a great relief.

Many of us are still not happy with Shurmur’s play-calling ability, or lack thereof. He got better this year, and he might be better still next season with a good receiver like A.J. Green to work with, but I don’t want to take that risk. I honestly don’t think we can make it to a Super Bowl with play calling like this. You just don’t go from where Shurmur is now to a chess grandmaster is a couple of seasons. He is pretty far off the mark right now.

Why not let him go?

Those who object to ditching Shurmur do so for two reasons: (1) It will adversely affect Sam Bradford’s development, (2) Some suspect that Steve Spagnuolo is the culprit behind our extremely conservative offensive play calling. I take both of those objections seriously, but I don’t ultimately find cause for keeping him in these arguments.

First, none of us want to do to Sam Bradford what the 49ers did to Alex Smith. Certainly, the 49ers massive inconsistency at OC has something to do with the failure of Alex Smith. However, if we are going to make a long-term commitment to an OC and an offensive philosophy, I would rather make that commitment to Mike Leach, former coach of Texas Tech.

Second, I too harbor fears that Steve Spagnuolo just might have a bit of the old Marty Schottenheimer inside his skull. Let’s hope not. For those who don’t remember. Marty was a very detail-oriented Virgo HC, with a tremendous defensive resume, who always shut down his offense after scoring 10-17 points. Marty ball is synonymous with shutting down your offense once you have a 4 point or greater lead. This was a dude notorious for trying to ride a 4 point lead to victory in playoff games. The results were terrible. He always made the playoffs, and he always lost. Virgos hate gambling and taking risks, and this was the most risk-averse Virgo I ever saw.

Of course, we all hope that head coach Steve Spagnuolo is no such figure. I would like to exonerate him on this charge, just because he is doing such a fantastic job with the defense, and motivating the troops, but I know my logic is fallacious. Let’s just say I am keeping an eye on Steve, watching for signs. Sagittarians are not supposed to be risk-averse folks. Rather, they have a strong tendency to get a wild-hair up and take massive unwarranted risks. Right now, I am blaming Shurmur’s lack of talent for our lack of good offensive strategy.

Quick-time spread baby!

Many a Ram observer commented during this season about how slow we were to adopt spread formations and move to a hurry-up offense. It became clear early on that Sam could not only run a quick-time spread in the NFL, but that he looked more comfortable doing it. We got great results when we ran the quick-time spread. We should have used it early, middle and late. It should have been a frequently seen component of our offense, not a once-in-a-while thing.

Anyone who watched Oklahoma football in the past three seasons knows perfectly well why Sam is comfortable and productive in the quick-time spread. Anybody who has watched the New England Patriots play this season knows that this system works well in the NFL… if you have a good QB. We do. Let’s move on with the program.

Mike Leach is the one and only clear-cut Spread-Genius, currently unemployed, and ready to walk in the door for an interview. Let’s get him. Incidentally, he is a Pisces just like GM Billy Devaney. Pisces goes pretty well with Scorpio. He should work well with Sam Bradford.

So we are agreed that the Rams should take Suh at the top of the first

Ah the media... will they never cease to rumor mill in the name of having something to talk about during the off season? Absolutely not!

I felt bad for Michael Lombardi this evening. He drew the shortest straw before they recorded NFL Total Access today. He was forced to advocate Sam Bradford as the #1 pick. Our panel of experts did not agree. Marshal Falk declared that Bradford is damaged goods and Suh should be the man. Takeo Spikes was emphatic that Ndamukong Suh is a team changing force.

It was interesting that the real Michael Lombardi came out at the end of this discourse. He openly cast doubt on the notion of who is a franchise QB by raising the spectre of Alex Smith and Aaron Rodgers. As he stated, if this draft were held over again, Aaron Rodgers would be the overwhelming #1. This was his little suggestion to us all that true franchise blood can be found lower than the #1 pick.

Unless the media is intentionally trying to help the Rams run a trickeration on the rest of the league, effectively conning the Redskins into making a deal with us, they are simply talking themselves into a position which is empirically unfounded. D'Marco Farr has already busted the NDA. The Rams are going to select disregarding need. It is going to be on the basis of a strict mathematical grade. Anyway you slice it, that has to be Ndamukong Suh. Unless...

I heard a rumor that Suh had not one but 2 knee surgeries. I could only find evidence of 1. Evidently, he had one before spring practice began in 2009. It kept him out of Spring drills, but did not result in any missed playing time. He played in all 13 games, and a was a crushing force. I would have a close look at that knee, but I suspect it is nothing. If he had a minor Athroscopy he will pass all the medicals. Since no one is talking about it, and he busted a tremendous 40 time, I suspect he passed all the medicals.

So why is the football media speaking as if the Rams may draft Sam Bradford? They are simply talking themselves into it. Of course, verdict they reach has nothing to do with the verdict the Rams reach. They can decide that the Rams will select Brandford as often as they please. They may be shocked come draft day. It is interesting to watch them wander so far away from the empirical indicators the organization is flashing at them.

So why don't I want the organization to draft Bradford? Well, I will tell you once more:

1. Bradford has a surgically repaired throwing shoulder
2. We do not have an offensive line that can protect him
3. There will be no plugin play rookie QB solution for the Rams in 2010
4. If we select Bradford, he may well become the next Jim Plunkett story
5. I want to trade a condition 2011 pick to the Eagles for Michael Vick
6. I want to Draft Tim Tebow with the #33 pick in 2010
7. I want to fire Pat Shurmer
8. I want to tap Mike Leach as our new OC

There you have it ladies and germs. I am all in favor of drafting a QB in 2010. I just want to do this in the 2nd round, not the first. Fixing our QB problem is very important to me. I just need you media guys to come off it and recognize that Sam Bradford--good as he is--is not workable fit for the St. Louis Rams. Once again, I don't like criticizing Bradford. I think he is one hell of a good kid. I just know he is going to die if we draft him. If you love the kid, you don't want that for him. Neither do I. It doesn't advance our cause to kill Sam Bradford, and it sure doesn't do him any good does it?

In praise of the Spread

I hope you all were watching the NFL Network yesterday evening. Around 6:00pm they were showing the NFL's Top 10 Innovations. I had seen the documentary last year, but this was the first time since then. I found it intensely annoying. It's not that it was a bad piece. It's not that the list was out of whack. It's not the guest commentators on the show. Rather, I was pissed at the tremendous two-faced duplicity of the many voices we hear on the NFL Network. This documentary exposed the tremendous Janus face of the commentators on the NFL Network.

Let's begin the case for conviction with the list of the top 10 innovations:

1. The Zone Blitz
2. The West Coast Offense
3. The 4-3 defense
4. The Shotgun formation
5. The 46 defense
6. The No-Huddle Offense
7. The 3-4 Defense
8. The Run-N-Shoot offense
9. The Tampa-2 defense
10. The Wildcat formation

The innovations are evenly split between offense and defense, five each. If we remove the defensive innovations, what does this list look like.

1. The West Coast Offense
2. The Shotgun
3. The No-Huddle
4. The Run-N-Shoot
5. The Wildcat

When you put them all together, what do you have? The Spread-Option offense Flordia has been running for 4 years. Tim Tebow has been the exclusive premier pilot of this scheme for the past 3 seasons. Some would say all four.

I won't have to explain that statement to anyone who knows football. A knowledgeable football fan might already know this. Other knowledgeable football fans might suddenly have the "AH-HA!" experience and put it all together for the first time. For the sake of those who do not understand, allow me to illuminate you further.

What is the key hallmark of each of these innovations?

1. The West Coast Offense: Dink-n-dunk, nickle-n-dime short passes. It is a ball-control passing attack. The emphasis is on the short pass substituting for the run. You don't run through the brick wall. You let your running backs take 4 or 5 strides, catch the ball and run with it. There is a strong tendency to script play sequences and for receivers to run adaptive routes.
2. The Shotgun: The quarterback lines up 5-7 yards behind the center and takes a long snap. This avoids the drop back, and gives the QB better immediate view of the defense.
3. The No-Huddle: The offense runs without a huddle, calling plays at the line of scrimmage, largely predicated on the defensive formations. The offense moves at double-time or faster. The defense is not allowed to make situational substitutions.
4. The Run-N-Shoot: The quarterback lines up under center most of the time with one back behind him. He has 4 WR in a balanced formation, and no TE. The receivers run flexible and adaptive routs based on what coverage they see. The notion is to stretch the defense vertically and horizontally and make them defense a 60 yard box.
5. The Wildcat: A running back lines up in the shotgun behind the center with two running backs lined up on the wings of the OL. One RB goes in motion across the field. The RB who takes the snap has the option to run the ball himself, or hand off to the motion RB, or the jet RB. This is the old single-wing formation with an option running attack.

There is just one bit of confusion that needs to be cleared up: The classic Run-N-Shoot was executed with Warren Moon under center at almost all times. The Oilers also called plays in the huddle. It became the RedGun when Jerry Glanville decided Chris Miller should line up in the shotgun most of the time, run without a huddle, and call plays at the line.

The commentators were absolutely clear that the Run-N-Shoot is still in the league. They even tagged the Patriots with running this offense. Clear associations exist with the Bengals of 1988, the Bills of the 1990s, the Patriots of today, the Colts of today, the Steelers of today, the Cardinals of yesterday, and current world champion Saints. I would tell you that all these teams are using the Spread, but they simply substitute a Tight End for 1 receiver with much greater frequency. They use the TE to chip the blind-side DE. The Florida Gators did that also.

So where is the duplicity? All of these things are labeled the NFL's Top 10 innovations. It is reasonable to say this because they are in use every Sunday by nearly every team. All of these things have become ubiquitous. They also happen to be the components out of which the Spread is assembled. The Spread is allegedly a college offense, not a legitimate pro offense, and one which causes great difficulties for young quarterbacks coming into the NFL. The Shotgun Zebra is everywhere you look in the NFL. Everybody is doing it, but because you mask it in West Coast terminology, nobody accepts the fact that this is a slightly modified Spread.

Spread kids have been using the NFL's Top 10 innovations for years! They are using the same elements of offense we see every Sunday in the NFL! They have run offenses very similar to those run by the Patriots, Steelers, Colts, Cardinals, and Saints!?!?!?! These are a bunch of our recent Super Bowl teams.

Just the other day, I heard Petros and Money complaining, with respect to the overtime rules, that the NFL likes to posture itself in a highly elitist stance. They do not wish to adopt the college rules for overtime because that may bust the 3 hour window, but more importantly, they do not want to be seen as copying the innovation of the NCAA rules committee. This could potentially damage the NFL's elitist posture.

I want to tell all the voices on the NFL Network the following: You can't have it both ways. If the list above constitutes the NFL's Top 10 innovations, then Spread QBs are using your offensive innovations, and they are a lot more NFL ready than you say they are. They are using a fully-authentic NFL offensive scheme. You just don't want to admit it because of your elitist posture.

On the other hand, if the list above does not contain the NFL's Top 10 Innovations, you better shoot Steve Sabol and burn the digital masters of that documentary.

I want to throw a shout-out to Bill Devaney and Steve Spagnuolo: Why do we not adopt the modified version of the Spread that these recent Super Bowl teams are using? It allows a mobile and athletic QB to run when he has too, as in the Wildcat. It confronts the defense with 4 spread-out receivers (make one a blindside TE and let him chip). They run adaptive routes as in the West Coast and the Run-N-Shoot. You hit'em where they ain't. The QB lines up the shotgun, a formation Don Banks of Sports Illustrated can see no downside in. You can control the ball by throwing short as in the West Coast.

Mike Leach did all of this at Texas Tech. I have a good idea! How about if we fire Pat Shurmer and sign Mike Leach as our new offensive coordinator. Michael Vick and Tim Tebow will prosper under his administration. We will also score a hell of a lot more than 10.9 points per game.

Mike Leach fired...?

So the shocking news in Lubbock Texas reached it's ultimate folly today: Texas Tech has fired head coach Mike Leach. They fired him for cause. They fired him because he allegedly locked wide Receiver Adam James (son of Pony Expressman Craig James) in dark electrical closet during practice because he had a concussion. His confinement lasted 3 hours.

If so, Leach was rightly fired. Still, I find these outrageous allegations extremely hard to believe.

Current and former players on the team have criticized Adam James work ethic. They said he had a negative attitude problem, and was never known as a worker. Some even said Coach Leach was trying to hold him accountable for his behavior. Does that mean he did what they say he did? Not really. If things were that bad why lock the kid in a shed like an animal? Why not just cut the kid from the team? The cut tool is the appropriate weapon to use in these cases.

I would love to hear what Craig James has to say about this. In a carefully worded statement from the James family, the James family said this was all about player safety. That's about all.

Purportedly, Atheletic Director Gerlad Myers had a contentious contract re-negotiation with Leach early this year. Myers allegedly hated the fact that Leach wanted to interview with the University of Washington about their vacant coaching position. He did not like being held over a barrel for more money.

I find the timing extremely curious. Leach was known as a rogue-maverick. Myers described him as insubordinate. He had been prepping the team for his firing for 10 months. Now this erupts in time for the university to save $800,000 in payouts to Leach. It should be noted that Adam James did not suffer his concussion until Dec 16th. Huuuuummmmm... That's just one of those things that make you go hummmm...

I personally don't know what to think of this incident. Innocent until proven guilty is the constitutional presumption of innocence. I once worked for an asshole (Sgt. Shaeffer) in the Army who was fully capable of locking a guy in shed (or worse) if you pissed him off. I have no love for that kind. Leach seems to have none of the Shaeffer mentality of personality. I don't see any similarity in the two of them.

There is one objective thing I can say: Texas Tech prospered under Leach. They were in the hunt for the BCS Championship last season. They had a top 10 pick in the form of Michael Crabtree. They had the most exciting offense in college football... which is saying a hell of a lot. I am astounding they would fire him. This is the most shocking firing since UCLA sacked coach Harrick from the Bruins' basketball team.

Coach Spagnuolo is known as a man with very high moral and ethical standards. He has always been known as a fair and even handed guy. I doubt he would want to look at a fellow with this kind of dark cloud over his head. If Leach has done this kind of thing, I doubt the Rams would have any interest at all in him.

However, if it does turn out that Leach was fired in a money-saver, maverick-busting move, I think the Rams aught to give him serious consideration for our offensive coordinator position. God knows the University of Florida will. I love the way this guy organizes his deep-strike, high-pressure, high-speed, pass-happy offense. The spread is not ideal in the NFL, but it is certainly better than the passing attack we have now.