Rams Owner Stan Kroenke's Statement On Firing Steve Spagnuolo, Billy Devaney

TB just cleaned house.

Thank you Stan. No more clapping hands and unconditional praises after bad plays.

There is finally some light at the end of the tunnel.

But the truth is that the fanbase has endured 3 full years of complete embarassment. I doubt there’s ever been an NFL team that drafted 1st, 14th and 2nd (lost tiebreaker for 1st) under the same fo/coach. Aside from leaving us the laughingstock of the suddenly strong NFC West, we still have and old team with more holes in the roster than swiss cheese. This failed regime proved that you can’t squander precious draft picks on the likes of Jason Smith, Darrell Scott, Mardy Gilyard, Keith Null, Hall Davis, Brooks Foster, Fendi Onobun, Eugene Sims, Jerome Murphy, Kendricks, Pettis, Mike Hoom, etc., etc. Even some of the supposed draft successes like Bradford and Saffold are looking rather questionable now. And when you have to consider Bradley Fletcher a great success, well that pretty much says it all. Then when you make a farce of free agency by bringing in too many old cronies like Jason Brown, James Butler, Fred Robbins and other highly questionable players like Sims-Walker, Norwood, Leber, Poppinga, Bannan, Feeley, etc.? And don’t take credit for Quintin Mikell. That was just a wash cause we lost Atogwe. And, oddly enough we dumped guys that are serving as role players, or better, on other teams. Anybody remember Adam Carriker, Laurent Robinson, Bobby Carpenter and others? And for some unknown reason, we cut the fastest guy on the team (Donnie Avery) in favor of mirages like Brandon Gibson and some slow white boys. Other brilliant moves include bringing in McD as OC, keeping Steve Loney and Nolan Cromwell and NOT having a QB coach.

Sooo, the days of the “four pillars” bull shit are over and Spags and Devaney are out of the Ram fans’ misery. No more sideline clapping after game-losing plays. No more bedazzlement at the lack of understanding of clock management. Thank you Lord! Now let’s hope our eccentric billionaire owner has the wisdom to hire someone with successful head coaching experience who won’t take a lotta crap. We’ve proven that STL ain’t the place to develop NEW head coaches. Please get us a Cowher, Fisher, Gruden or Billick type of guy.

This is a results-based business, and his overall record in three years was his ultimate downfall. Personally, I’m pissed it didn’t work out for the guy. When he was taken on I thought he was the man to help us forget about the Linehan years. Unfortunately, he’s now spoken of as being as inept as a HC as Linehan.
Another opportunity as a HC will roll around again, but in the meantime there’s gonna be some team who’ll be lucky to have him run their D.
As far as Billy Devaney being fired? Fuck him. Never rated the guy.

Traded spags to the eagles for djax and cromartie, and draft kalil. Win win win. Lol.