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Atlantic Ram
He brought some respectability to the Rams and got them pointed in the right direction... basically he stopped the bleeding...
I agree 100%. The Rams didn't reach the playoffs but they needed someone to bring them out of what was (let's not forget) THE worst 5-year run in NFL history. When you take a team that won 18% of its games over 5 years and win 43% over the four years, largely with backup QBs, you did something right.
I'm not trying to stir up a Jeff Fisher hornet's nest but just saying he was
hardly their worst mistake of the past decade. Frankly I would have trading up for Tavon Austin vs. staying put and taking DeAndre Hopkins up there. And I'm not sure you can bundle these two together but certainly whiffing on two top-2 LT selections (Smith and Robinson) absolutely set them back quite a bit.
Smith and Robinson are bad. But the recent crew also got Donald, Gurley, and Goff. Plus of course many others. That compares very well to what is REALLY bad...like the stretch from 2002-2009 where they had 70 picks and basically got 12 players out of it (I include Jackson, Bartell, Atogwe, Long, and Laurenaitis, but also generously toss in Tinoisamoa, McDonald, Curtis, Barron, Incognito I guess, Greco even though they never started him, and Fletcher). That's an 8 year period with a 17% hit rate, with some years producing absolutely nothing, and with 5 blown first round picks in 8 years---Thomas, Kennedy, Hill, Carriker, and Smith).