John Shaw
John Shaw
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There was a belief at that time that we didn't need the (pro personnel) process so defined, or that position so defined ... that our head coach and our scouting department would be more involved. I think now there's kind of a belief that we should have a more traditional setup where there is a director of pro personnel. And it's more clearly defined.
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Bob told me he felt it would be better to address it after the season, ... By the time Mike talked about it, we were almost beginning training camp.
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Maybe the team's performance up to the time he left was a factor of his health. I just don't know all those things. So, it is kind of a difficult thing to assess. We'll just wait and see.
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We know where the team was at the time he left,
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We had a period of time where we were challenging the league's rules on relocation that caused a rift between the Rams and the league office. Obviously, litigation ensued and there were four or five years that we had substantial difference of opinion with the commissioner.
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As you guys remind me all the time, I spend a fair amount of time in Los Angeles, ... I thought it was important at that time that we use a title that indicated there is somebody who is overseeing the football side, that is living in St. Louis full-time and here on a daily basis.
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I met with Mike last Tuesday for about four hours at his house. I felt at that time that he thought he was coming back after the bye. I think he felt that he was just a couple weeks away. So I was kind of expecting him to come back after the bye.
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I spent a lot of hours on it. It's hard to make a deal that makes everybody happy.
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And when that happens, the first thing people tend to do is blame the coach, or blame the people that are picking players. And once you get into a finger-pointing mode of who took that first-round draft pick, or why did you let this player go, it tends to create divisiveness between those three people.
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We want a coach that we think will improve our product and put a more competitive team on the field right now. We have identified a list of candidates. It's quite a wide list. We will do this immediately, but diligently. I know there will be a number of coaching vacancies, but we will do it in a way that suits us.
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Everything in our business is competitive. I assume the hiring on our head coaching will be competitive.
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As I speak to you today, I fully expect that Mike will be our coach next year.
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That was a total team effort. And finally, we played our kind of basketball for a full game.
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I was basically hired to introduce what was called modern math, in 1964.