Change Is Coming

With the passing of Georgia Frontiere the Rams now stand on the threshold of certain and perhaps immense change. Some may think uncertainty but that's unlikely. The certainty is ever present in the fact that Chip Rosenbloom now has control over the Rams.

Is this a good thing? Yes. Friendships and loyalties that his mother had had probably doesn't mean as much to Chip as they did to his mother. This is not to say that he doesn't care for his mothers friends, it's just that he is a smart enough man to understand that sometimes friendships must be scrutinized in a time of change.

Chip Rosenbloom, grew up with the Rams and certainly knows how his father and mother felt about the team and it's importance. And it would stand to reason that Chip would not want to continue to see his father and mother's "pride and joy" be swallowed up by the dark abyss the team has recently been struggling to climb out of.

Change on as grand a scale as our beloved Rams need will not happen overnight, nothing this big can ever happen overnight. And we as fans need to understand this, we need to be patient, change will come and it can only offer promises of a better future for our team.

Not Fair to Judge a Coach Because of Injuries?

Now isn't that what Shaw said? Did he not say that it was unfair to even consider firing Linehan because of all the injuries that occurred in 2007? I sure seem to recall him saying words to that effect, in fact on more than one occasion.

So if that is then the truth here, how was it fair to Paul Boudreau the offensive line coach, to fire him? It was his unit that was utterly decimated by injuries. Should he not been given the same type of treatment at Linehan?

Boudreau was not the problem and releasing him was not the answer and won't fix the multitude of problems this team is facing.

Olson's boring offense was part of the problem and getting rid of him makes sense, but now they are thinking of bringing in Cam Cameron, who may have an Air Coreyll style of coaching but he's yet another "loser" from Miami. Doesn't make sense, but then again, what things coming down from the front office have made sense in recent years?

The teams main problem remains coaching. Linehan has had two years to show whether or not he's got that special thing that makes a coach, that special something that turns players heads, and putting injuries aside, he simply does not have that intangible that sparks enthusiasm in the hearts of any of his players. There is where the problem lies.

But who am I? Just a fan looking in from the outside.

The Pain and Agony

As if the season wasn't bad enough as it was, we as Rams fans had to sit in just utter angst as we watched our team be totally humiliated.

And by the Cardinals no less. The Cardinals folks, a team that hadn't had a .500 season since moving to the desert. Oh.....My.....God! Could it get any worse?!

Well of course it could.

Not only did our beloved Rams get the whoopin' they did but to make matters worse, it was at the hands of the one and only Kurt Warner. The same Warner who brought dignity and honor to the Rams Organization, that same organization that dissed the man just a few years removed from that glorious Super Bowl.

This had to be the worst game of the entire season. There were a lot of bad ones but this one was the entire season summed up in one horrendous embarrassment.

But like the sadistic fools some of us Rams fans have grown to become, many of us continued to watch this debacle to the bitter end. Perhaps to remind ourselves that we still loved our team and that no matter what we'd be there. Whatever the reasoning for this self-imposed torture, we are none the less thankful and fall on our knees and thank God that we are finally rid of this pain and agony that we called the 2007 season.