In 1992 when the Rams were looking for a new Head Coach, John Shaw wanted to hire San Francisco's Offensive Coordinator Mike Holmgren, but Owner George Frontiere wanted one man and one man only, Chuck Knox.
Georgia said that her husband loved Knox and he did so much for the Rams she wanted to bring him back and my feeling was at the time, well, at least he'll get the Rams back to respectability. Georgia also gave Knox total autonomy as he was named President of Football Operations too.
First issue Knox had as his long time associate Tom Catlin, who was Knox's LB in Los Angeles and his Defensive Coordinator in Buffalo & Seattle decided he had moved enough and stayed in Seattle. That led to George Dyer becoming Defensive Coordinator and the staff was in trouble form there.
Ernie Zampese only lasted one year under the conservative Knox and then went to Dallas leaving Chick Harris as Offensive Coordinator and the team went down hill from there. Some people love to pontificate that the Rams lost games on purpose and Georgia purposely did not put money into the team the last couple of years, which is untrue as they signed multiple free agents like DT Jimmie Jones of Dallas & MLB Shane Conlan of Buffalo to post a few.
In the end, they did not win and the 1994 highlight film was "Meet Me In St. Louis." so as I digress, let's hope the team turns the corner this year as one would hope the Rams have a young up and coming Head Coach who can turn this thing around.