Feature Article
Thank God It's Finally Over
The WatchDog
Staff Writer
It seems almost too much to imagine thinking that this season we have a professional organization to put legitimate hopes into.
For almost a decade now, the St. Louis Rams organization has been run into the ground progressively until
even as recent as 8 weeks ago, it has seemed like a dysfunctional circus run by immature and incompetent boobs
whose agendas were as diverse and unconventional as a Rams play call in the red zone, which typically were as
bizarre as they were rare.
But today is a new day, and seemingly everything; every detail of day to day progressive operations seem well
thought out and mature, calculated steps to a legitimate rebuilding of the one-time always proud and mighty
teams of the 1970's. Steve Spagnuolo has assembled what appears to be a brilliant staff, and Bill Devaney is
in the midst of orchestrating a symphony. It actually seems as though the franchise is being run by…dare I
say it…grown-ups.
Beautiful!
What an incredible relief; it feels like the Rams are already a winning football team with the pro-caliber
mind-set in place now. The Greatest Show on Turf was a flash in the pan for sure, but what really comes to
mind when thinking of that time period is more like The Greatest Show on Earth; total circus complete with
Bozo the clown and hoop-jumping monkeys crapping in their hands and throwing it at one another seemingly for fun.
That quote by Ronald Bartell that surfaced the other day gave a perfect example in a nut-shell of the buffoon
cage that was the general manager's postion.
"Here I was a second-round draft pick, and I had not had one conversation with the previous general manager,"
Bartell said, referring to former Rams executive Jay Zygmunt. "Not one. How do you have a GM that doesn't even
speak to the players? I've been one of the core players and I didn't even talk to the man. And when the top is
not in order, it trickles from the top of the team down."
Incredible, hard to imagine for sure; but makes complete sense to me given the state of the Rams circle-the-drain
reality for most of the decade.
Thank god it's over, finally. Here's to the new regime, and here's to keeping soap operas on during the weekdays
only.
Go Rams!
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