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Trying to locate the entire segment. Really interested in hearing what they have to say, given the way they downplayed Sean's hire last year. I know the Rams are well respected now and all, but I haven't forgotten Kirwan's take the day Sean was hired: "I'll give that one a year."
Dude is knowledgeable, but his Pete Carroll influence is profound.
Seriously? Lombardi said his hiring was "a joke"? I never heard that. What an asshole Lombardi is...Mike Lombardi called the hire "a joke" and then stated "Goff can't play"
No wonder he is out of the league..
Seriously? Lombardi said his hiring was "a joke"? I never heard that. What an icehole Lombardi is...
Trying to locate the entire segment. Really interested in hearing what they have to say, given the way they downplayed Sean's hire last year. I know the Rams are well respected now and all, but I haven't forgotten Kirwan's take the day Sean was hired: "I'll give that one a year."
Dude is knowledgeable, but his Pete Carroll influence is profound.
OMG...Lombardi is a total (excuse my language, but I've never been so mad at a sports writer than Lombardi after reading this) Fucking Asshole! What a fucked up, ass fucking, fuck shit article!Lombardi went on a whole diatribe last year against the Rams front office.
https://www.theringer.com/2017/6/22/16036696/los-angeles-rams-sean-mcvay-stan-kroenke-63646f1f2df2
He has a rep for being very football smart, but I've never seen any evidence of his great knowledge.
OMG...Lombardi is a total (excuse my language, but I've never been so mad at a sports writer than Lombardi after reading this)Fucking Asshole! What a fucked up, ass fucking, fuck shit article!
All he said about McVay was that he's young and we don't know if he can affect culture change. The article was actually pretty reasonable, even in retrospect. The Rams sucked because Shaw was a CPA/lawyer, not a football guy. We made some questionable contracts with Demoff doing them. Not really untrue statements and some skepticism about a young unproven guy turning around decades (minus a few years) of ineptitude.Lombardi went on a whole diatribe last year against the Rams front office.
https://www.theringer.com/2017/6/22/16036696/los-angeles-rams-sean-mcvay-stan-kroenke-63646f1f2df2
He has a rep for being very football smart, but I've never seen any evidence of his great knowledge.
Lombardi went on a whole diatribe last year against the Rams front office.
https://www.theringer.com/2017/6/22/16036696/los-angeles-rams-sean-mcvay-stan-kroenke-63646f1f2df2
He has a rep for being very football smart, but I've never seen any evidence of his great knowledge.
At least Lombardi and Kirwan are not local media guys that dissed the Rams and McVay. So many “Experts” in the LA sports media were so negative before the 2017 season. I remember listening to AM 710 LA ESPN and listening to George Sedano saying that Jared Goff is a lost cause and the Rams made a huge mistake trading for and drafting him. John Ireland pretty much echoed those statements and kept saying LA is and always will be a Raiders town. After the year many of these doubters quieted down. But I still hear the haters pop up. Keyshawn Johnson this morning vehemently said the Rams are NOT a Super Bowl team. He said that there is no chemistry and you can’t buy a championship team. He gave no thought to the great coaching the Rams have and the chemistry they built last year. He said dream teams never work in the NFL and it will be no different for the Rams. I love hearing these guys doubting the Rams. We shut a lot of them up last year and hopefully we will shut up a lot more at the end of this season
I listen because they’re at least talking NFL now. Just a week or two ago it was all Lakers and Lebron James man love. Also don’t know how Keyshawn Johnson is employed as an analyst in LA since he hates all LA sports teams except USC. I actually liked Marcellus Wiley in the afternoon show but he quit or they fired him recentlyHow can you stand listening to those know nothing cocksucking cocksuckers? If I'm listening to the radio and i hear some jerkoff spouting crap i switch off.
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I listen because they’re at least talking NFL now. Just a week or two ago it was all Lakers and Lebron James man love. Also don’t know how Keyshawn Johnson is employed as an analyst in LA since he hates all LA sports teams except USC. I actually liked Marcellus Wiley in the afternoon show but he quit or they fired him recently
All he said about McVay was that he's young and we don't know if he can affect culture change. The article was actually pretty reasonable, even in retrospect. The Rams sucked because Shaw was a CPA/lawyer, not a football guy. We made some questionable contracts with Demoff doing them. Not really untrue statements and some skepticism about a young unproven guy turning around decades (minus a few years) of ineptitude.
Ah, timing is everything.It's one thing to be skeptical of McVay's hire when it happened, especially if you don't know much about him. Lombardi wrote this 2000 word article five months later. Plenty of time to digest the McVay hire, and with all his connections in the league, maybe ask around and find out what McVay brings to the table. Find out that he was more than just a "QB coach."
Lombardi didn't do that.
Most of us at ROD know about Shaw and Georgia. We know the Rams history. Yet we were still optimistic going into 2017, weren't we? Sometimes you have to leave the past in the past and just look at what's happening in the here and now.
Mike Lombardi called the hire "a joke" and then stated "Goff can't play"
No wonder he is out of the league..