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stlramz
The Kromer departure is flat out strange both for timing and the fact that such a fine coach has not been hired by anyone as far as I know.

The NFL coaching ranks are a small tight knit community. I wonder if there is some issue with Coach Kromer which caused his departure and prevents his immediate hiring. The guy is too good of a coach not to be brought in somewhere barring a problem.

I think the basic issue is, everyone had already hired and/or made the decision to keep their current OL coach. That was a month before, as I said hiring/firing time.

Notice what the Rams did--they hired a completely green, newbie OL coach (green when it comes to the NFL). The last time that happened was 1983. They were kind of close to doing that in 96 but really didn't--the OL coach in 95 was Dan Radacovich (formerly of the Steelers) and he left in 96, so their assistant OL coach, Steve Greatwood became the OL coach in 96. So he was with the pros for a year assisting a great one (Radakovich) and therefore wasn't a newbie. And before that, they hired the great Hudson Houk in 1983 as a newbie right out of USC. Houk left after 91. Since then these are the Rams OL coaches--all NFL veterans before joining the Rams: Jim Erkenbeck, Greatwood, Jim Hanifan, John Matsko, Paul Boudreau (twice), Steve Loney, and Kromer.

That means this new guy is the first NFL newbie OL coach they have hired since 1983.

My assumption is they had to go to the college ranks because all the veteran NFL candidates had been hired. From what I have seen the normal thing to do with a college guy who comes to the pros is to make him an assistant OL coach first--I don't see too many OL coaches that go straight from college to being the top OL coach on a pro team.

Is it bad that Carberry is a newbie? Is this a complaint--of the kind the board conformity police should patrol? I will be wait and see on Carberry and won't judge in advance. He could be quite good. For all I know maybe more NFL teams should have been hiring young college OL coaches.

Short version. I mean I could be wrong but I would not expect a coach fired a month after hiring/firing season to get hired. Someone would have to want to dump someone they already were working with.







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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/02/2021 03:32AM by zn.