New DB Coach?

[dang]

Their take


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Yes…ST coverage/returns need to tighten up (I’m declaring them set at K/P)…. But the defense is the story of the offseason for the Rams. I see a major overhaul (coaching, players and scheme) across the board. Can’t let that epic defensive fall from grace happen again next year.

 

[LA_Rams_#29]

Makes for an interesting hire being that 2 of his CBs from Tennessee.... Jermond McCoy, and Colton Hood are across the boards 2 of the top 5 CBs in this coming draft


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[OldSchool]

Does anyone have a doubt that the Rams first pick will be used on either Hood or McCoy, the two CBs from Tennessee. Of course, that is based on if they are still available when the Rams pick.

Makes for an interesting hire being that 2 of his CBs from Tennessee.... Jermond McCoy, and Colton Hood are across the boards 2 of the top 5 CBs in this coming draft


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avS7MGoIbrs



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For the record he never coached at Tennessee. He joined their staff 6 weeks ago after being at Ohio St the previous 2 years. No ties at all to McCoy or Hood.

 

[Allen2McVay]

Makes for an interesting hire being that 2 of his CBs from Tennessee.... Jermond McCoy, and Colton Hood are across the boards 2 of the top 5 CBs in this coming draft

As Old School mentioned above, Hunter only recently took the job at TN but he did coach Caleb Downs and Davison Igbinosun at Ohio State. Downs is one of the best players in the up-coming draft; and Igbinosun looks like a Day 2 selection.

Check-out Memphis Rams post on page 1 (post #15 on this thread) has some quotes from an article where both Downs and Igbinosun are extremely complimentary of Hunter. Good Stuff.

 

[Soul Surfer]

Tennessee Volunteers.

I wish these half-assed excuses for journalists would be more specific about these things.
All I kept reading was Tennessee and I had to figure out which Tennessee they were talking about.
Jeez.

 

[OntarioRam]

Pleasant wasn't the DB coach he was the pass game coordinator/assistant coach. We actually didn't list a DB coach we listed a Safety coach and then Pleasant and Jimmy Lake as assistant coaches. We had Mike Harris as a defensive assistant to work with DB's but no actual DB coach. They may have relied on Lake or Pleasant to be the DB coach though. So even if he isn't gone Hunter hire is a need.

Not having a formally recognized DB coach might well speak to how poorly that unit performed. I am sure someone was coaching them, even if not while bearing a "DB Coach" job title. I cannot see the DBs just being left entirely to their own devices. But for a franchise worth billions - I believe the Rams are the 3rd most valuable franchise in all of pro sports now? - that competing to win a Super Bowl with an aging QB... not finding the pennies to scrape together for a DB Coach deserves some criticism. Even if someone was coaching them, like all jobs, both inside the NFL and out, if they were allowed to focus on that 1 task exclusively, instead of juggling multiple competing priorities, guaranteed they'd be able to do better job at it.