Rams defensive backs 'driving the bus' during training campAlden Gonzalez
IRVINE, Calif. -- When Raheem Morris coached defensive backs in Washington, he constantly told his players that they were the "bus drivers" of the team. The ones who made everything go. This was during a three-year period from 2012 to '14. Aubrey Pleasant was Morris' assistant in the final year of that stretch, and now he coaches cornerbacks for the Los Angeles Rams. He brought that term with him.
"For him, it was an idea," Pleasant said. "I wanted to take it as a lifestyle."
Pleasant drills this into his cornerbacks, as does Ejiro Evero with the safeties. "Be the bus drivers," they'll tell them, in the meeting room, during drill work, from the sidelines. When the team returns to its permanent facility in Thousand Oaks, California, this month, Pleasant will emblazon the slogan on a wall somewhere. It comes with a lot of responsibility.
"We set the intensity; we set the tempo," Rams slot corner Nickell Robey-Coleman said.
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