St. Louis Rams Owner Stan Kroenke to give complete authority to new coach – NFL News
Inspired by the business model followed by New England Patriots, St. Louis Rams Owner Stan Kroenke said on Tuesday that he would give complete authority to his new coach.
During an interview with St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kroenke admired the trend followed at New England and pledged that he would leave no stone unturned to get the franchise on the winning ways.
A day earlier, the Rams had fired Coach Steve Spagnuolo and General Manager Billy Devaney following a dreadful season, in which the Rams could manage to win only two games and finished at the bottom of the National Football Conference West division ranking
table.
The hunt for new coach and general manager has already been started and interviews for the posts will be conducted within a couple of weeks.
For the selection of new coach and general manager, the Rams are going to appoint an advisory board, which will comprise of experts including former Coach d**k Vermeil and Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk.
According to different reports, former Tennessee Titans Coach Jeff Fisher is emerging as one of the most favourable candidate.
On Monday, Rams’ Chief Operating Officer Kevin Demoff, who is responsible for formulating a list of possible candidates, also acknowledged that the franchise was planning to approach Fisher, but he maintained that other candidates would also be considered.
Kroenke wants to hire those people, who would follow an already charted course of action to ensure that the franchise gets best players in its line-up. And if they fail to do so, they should be held accountable.
"We will have someone who is in charge of personnel, and they will be clearly in charge of personnel and they will be responsible," Kroenke said. "And hopefully they will be very bright. And they may be young or they may be seasoned, and we already have
several people in mind. The (head) coach? We’d like the coach to coach."
The owner constantly maintained that the failure was painful to him and said that nobody enjoyed such slump. When asked what he thought was the main cause of concern for the franchise, he did not hesitate in pointing out the failures.
"What’s wrong with the franchise is we’re not winning. If we were winning, we’d all be happy. So what it comes down to is the product on the field, and there are a lot of ways to go at it.”
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