My hope is that Kroenke is smart enough to realize that the best way to do this is to build a program and stick with it. Fisher/Snead get five years minimum if i'm the owner.
I look at New England, Green Bay, Pittsburgh and to some extent New Orleans, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and maybe even now Dallas. The common denominators are stability, trust, patience, belief in what your doing...and unfortunately in most cases an upper echelon/elite QB. Having that QB is the straw that stirs the drink, but if you're getting stuck into the vicious cycle of changing regimes and blowing it up every few years...your glass is always empty...although everyone will look at it as half full because of the popular
"blowing it up will be better than this" mentality.
Teams rebuild, get to 7-9, 8-8 and then get impatient. Sometimes GM's and coaches will then make decisions that can set the entire process back. Their program isn't fully established yet. Young players have been drafted for a few years, coaches are beginning to see their vision come together, scouts and front office people are beginning to understand what it is that everyone is working towards. There are signs on the field that the hard work and shared vision is beginning to pay off. Why would you halt that momentum just because you think(as an owner or HC) that there's a small chance to go from 7 to 12 wins in one offseason? The answer is to save your job, which has nothing to do with rebuilding a team and establishing a trusted system and a winning program.
Stick with it. Stick with the plan. A three year rebuild is a small chunk of time. It can go three ways.
1.Worst to first
2.Steady slow
3.Backwards.
IMO It's pretty simple to see which category this regime falls under right now.
The better teams, the teams that are successful year in and year out, have an established identity, continuity and a machine-like ability to have a down year and yet nobody panics because there's always someone or some type of contingency plan in place. There's trust from the owner to the guy who manages the cap to the GM to the scouts to the HC that everyone knows what they're doing.
Assistants coaches move around often...that's the nature of the game. You're lucky to have stability there. You hire and fire in order to adapt and hopefully improve your system....not to change the system entirely. You've just spent three years drafting players to fit YOUR system.
Rams need to continue doing what they're doing IMO, and continue adding some walls to the solid foundation that's been built here over the last three years. Hopefully we can find a franchise QB soon because none of that means much if you don't have that important piece.
This post was WAY too long. I'm a much better talker than i am a writer/poster. I'd tell ya'll whats up.
fuckers....
Sometimes I wish we could organize a ROD community Skype or something. That would be cool...maybe.
