St. Louis Rams Fire Head Coach Steve Spagnuolo After Three Seasons

by Neal Coolong on Jan 2, 2012 10:56 AM EST in NFL News

As expected, St. Louis has parted ways with their head coach of the last three years, Steve Spagnuolo, as well as their GM Billy Devaney.

The Rams finished 2-14 this season, a disappointment caused by injuries and a general lack of production on both sides of the ball.

Spagnuolo is 10-37 in three years in St. Louis, his only pro head coaching job. It's one year removed from nearly winning the NFC West, but the Rams lost in Week 17 to Seattle.

St. Louis was 1-15 in Spagnuolo's first season, 2009.

Known as a defensive innovator, the Rams finished 12th, 31st and 26th in scoring defense in his tenure. He's largely credited with the defensive front that beat the undefeated Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. While the Rams did lead the NFL with 50 sacks this season, it wasn't enough to save his job.

He will be a hot defensive coordinator commodity, and may even sign with a team for next year - uncommon for terminated head coaches. Philadelphia, a team for which he worked in the past, may have immediate interest.

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What a shame that Steven Jackson has to play for this crappy organization.

The same thing might have happened to Bettis if he hadn’t come to the Steelers.

by Billy52 on Jan 2, 2012 11:37 AM EST reply actions

I wouldnt say crappy but just unlucky

After the greatest show on tur I would say crappy but they went out got the hottest coach on the market in Spags and a number one QB who was great his first year plus 11 cb’s on the IR plus line injury’s this team was just unlucky. The one stupid thing they did was hire McDaniels.

by lshaffer_69 on Jan 2, 2012 11:40 AM EST up reply actions

I say crappy because they haven't been anywhere near the SB for decades.

It shouldn’t take you 20 years to build a team if you know what you’re doing.

by Billy52 on Jan 5, 2012 1:14 PM EST up reply actions

? they played in the SB in 2001. And won won 2 years prior

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by FrankWyt on Jan 5, 2012 8:09 PM EST up reply actions

Totally unrelated

But I found this interesting:

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Most scathing indictment of Jets WR Santonio Holmes: One player tells me: “He’s a cancer. It’s like dealing with a 10 year old.”

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by John Stephens on Jan 2, 2012 11:47 AM EST reply actions

Makes me thankful, every day...

…that we have Colbert in the FO, who, in conjunction with a class HC in Tomlin, doesn’t put up with cancers, and in fact gets rid of them before they become injurious to the locker room.

And to think, we got AB (indirectly) because of the move the FO made on Holmes.

R. Ryan + S. Holmes = Jets 2011 season results. Love it!

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by PaVaSteeler on Jan 2, 2012 12:23 PM EST up reply actions

I agree with you totally

But Holmes is not the problem on that team. I think it is time for them to get rid of Sanchez. With that receiving core he should be throwing for 350 yards a game and 3 TDs. He looks about as accurate as Tebow does and that is bad. Some of those throws were bad on sunday

by lshaffer_69 on Jan 3, 2012 7:35 AM EST up reply actions

Raheem Morris and his staff got the axe too

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by John Stephens on Jan 2, 2012 11:57 AM EST reply actions

Well, maybe the next staff can actually give Bradford a little talent

Seeing how guys like Saffold have gone

Some guy at Penn State Hershey just discovered a virus that eats cancer. Where were the CNN trucks for that? Now Someone at PSU found something that could cure Leukemia. Coverage? None. THON will probably break $10 mil this year. Put that on "Outside the Lines" you sanctimonious pricks!

by ICEICETHATGUY13 on Jan 2, 2012 12:01 PM EST reply actions