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AlbaNY_Ram
"... in his own eyes, his own hires are not worthy of being coordinators." It's a given that in McVay's eyes the guys he hired were not worthy of being coordinators. To me that's not the same thing as saying they shouldn't have been hired for the jobs they were hired for.
"Internal promotion is a good policy because it fosters continuity." I'm a big fan of internal promotions, and would always promote from within when I could, even if there was an external candidate who was considered slightly better in a vacuum. The idea of maintaining continuity, the morale of the team when a coworker was promoted over bringing someone new in, etc, all make internal promotions ideal. But there were times when an external candidate was head and shoulders better than my internal candidate(s) I would hire them instead.
The Rams are addressing the continuity issue by having Morris run the same (or at least very similar) defense that Staley ran. I am hopeful that works out, as I am sure you are as well.
But continuity isn't necessarily the be-all end-all. Staley succeeded Wade, ran a different defense, and that worked out OK.
This is interesting discussion. I'm not sure that McVay agrees with either of you on the policy of internal promotion. Specifically, there is some evidence that McVay doesn't necessarily consider it ideal as stated in the bold above. This last hiring season McVay was actually quoted as saying one of the reasons he occasionally likes to hire an external candidate is to bring new blood, new ideas, and new innovation into the mix with the current way of doing things.
That sounds like he deliberately sometimes does NOT want continuity. The downside to continuity is staleness.
