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How to Select a Head Coach and Why I'm Worried Stan Will Botch It.



I admit, its Christmas and its fun to spitball coaching candidates. Gruden, Harbaugh, Shanahan, McDaniel's, Turner, Bob Cooter, and Shaw. DASHER, DANCER, PRANCER, VIXEN, COMET, CUPID, DONNER, and BLITZEN. And one Reindeer to lead them all! So how do we find Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer? The next Belichick? ( God I threw up in my mouth typing his name.) But let's face it. We all want a head coach who can create a Dynasty. Right? Of course right.

My friend, Mackeyser said it best,

" Kevin Demoff is NOT a football person and should have zero say in football operations.

So, if Les Snead isn't part of the decision, who is going to be at the vanguard in selecting the next Rams HC?

Or are the Rams going to pick a GM first? or perhaps hire them in tandem? And if in tandem, how does that work? How would the evaluation of the HC candidates work in that case?"

Let me toss in my 2 cents.

1. We need a head coach who checks his ego at the door thus allowing his offensive and defensive coordinators complete creative power to run their respective units. A head coach who know his own weaknesses.

2. We need a head coach who can spot an offensive and defensive genius and hire those guys. NO NEPITISM! Its not personal... its businesses.

3. We need a head coach who can adapt week to week, accentuating Ram strengths, create mismatches thus exploiting enemy teams weaknesses.

4. We need a head coach with the impeccable ability to spot draft and free agent talent or know a GM who can spot the talent and hire that GM.

I could go and on and on and on. But what's the point? The point is we need someone WHO CAN SHIFT THROUGH THE PRO AND COLLEGE RANKS AND HIRE THE NEXT BELICHICK.

Stan K needs to find the guy who find the guy who can the hire men who will lead us to numerous Super Bowls. Who is this mysterious man. I don't know. That's not my job. But if it were my job I would search high and low for Football people who have hired MULTIPLE successful coaches. I'm looking at the Patriots, Steelers, Giants, Ravens, and the Packers. Who hired their head coaches? And then I'd pay through the nose for the man who found and hired all those successful coaches to lead the search for the next Ram's Head Coach.

Bottom Line- Stan K needs to find and hire an expert on head coaching talent and then let that man hire our next head coach. My heart can't take another decade of spinning our wheels.