No matter what Chip Rosenbloom decides to do with changes in staff and/or players, the damage from last year through to this year is far beyond a simple fix of getting rid of the coach. Although Linehan must go. There's no question there. But it would have served the team far better had Rosenbloom gotten rid of him at the end of last season.
Nothing can be done about that error on his part. But he can't sit and wait till the end of the season either to start blowing up this organization. The time is now, especially if he wants to keep any type of fan base in St. Louis.
His first step MUST be to fire Linehan, no if's, and's or but's about it. Who he puts in as interim coach really won't matter much because the damage to our team has already pretty much destroyed them as a whole. But if this step isn't taken then Rosenbloom himself had better start thinking of getting out of St. Louis and fast.
His second step will need to be working all season in the background and making up a game plan on how to improve his front office and that would be getting rid of long time family friends Shaw and Zgymunt. It just has to happen. And finally he must find a coach that has a reputation of turning things around and who would be willing to take on the challenge of our poor Rams.
If none of this happens, then all of us are guaranteed many more years of darkness in Rams Nation.
P.S. Well as I was writing this, the news was being released about the firing of Linehan so a lot of what I said is moot. But I will say, I'm not so sure of the choice of Haslett. He couldn't motivate the defense, how is he going to motivate the entire team? Guess we'll find out the week after the bye.
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