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Rams adding Sean Desai:

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Thanks for the continuous updates Elvis!

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I don't care who this guy works with....defense, offense from a defensive perspective, what ever. He survives 9 year in Chicago under 3 different head coaches. He goes to Seattle as AHC, then gets hired by Philly. They're 10-1. His defense holds Miami and Kansas City to 17 (the last game before the 'trouble with the defense).

His defense has a stretch of bad games and he's moved out of the picture completely. After 11 weeks? And then fired after the season? Good thing Lurie doesn't have the same patience with Siriani, as Siriani had with Desai.

The 3 game stretch (1-2) was against Buffalo, SF and Dallas. In those last two Philly scored 19 and 13 points. Isn't Siriani an offensive guy? They go on to lose 3 of their last 4 ( & the WC game) and allowing an average of 27 ppg (while scoring 25 ppg) then scored 9 and gave up 32 in the WC game. It's tough to win consistently when you score just 20.

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#Rams expected to hire former #Eagles DC Sean Desai in a senior defensive role, per sources.

It's the Jimmy Lake spot. Lake of course went with Morris to Atlanta.

Desai has Fangio roots. Fangio was the DC in Chicago for 4 of the years Desai was a defensive coach there (2015-18). He also overlapped with Staley there for 2 years. In fact Fangio replaced him as the DC in Philadelphia.

Whatever it is the Rams had Lake doing in 2023, it revived his career. Same could happen with Desai. He's at least knowledgable of the Fangio system, which is what Shula inherits from Morris, who inherited it from Staley. I don't know how close Shula will stick to that system, but Desai could be a resource, along with the other things he'll be doing in his new role with the Rams.

Desai actually has a PhD, fwiw. From Temple. He was a coaching assistant for the Temple football team while being a grad student. In 2010 he chose coaching over entering academia. That year he turned down a full-time professorship at George Washington University to stay at Temple as a linebacker coach and special teams coordinator.

In lots of ways, he sounds a lot like Lake. Bright guy, varied background, hit a rough patch, Rams then hired him to be whatever it was Lake was with the Rams. Desai takes that role whatever it is.

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https://www.si.com/nfl/2024/02/28/bears ... b-williams

The Los Angeles Rams took some losses on their coaching staff this winter (particularly with Raheem Morris and Zac Robinson headed to Atlanta), but they also scored an awfully big win. Hanging on to highly regarded tight ends coach Nick Caley was a coup for Sean McVay.

The continued poaching of McVay’s assistants has been, over the last few years, both a huge endorsement of what’s been built in Los Angeles and also a bit of a burden on a team that’s constantly needed to reshape itself around new staff coming in. But last year marked a sort of shift in how they did it, with McVay going outside a coaching tree that traditionally has been very insular to hire Caley and Ryan Wendell, both of whom have Patriot roots.

Part of it, of course, was that McVay just liked those two. Another was the respect he’s always had for Josh McDaniels and the New England offense, and the thought that adding some layers to the passing game, with Matthew Stafford as its triggerman, and some more diversity to the run game would make the Rams tough to deal with. To be sure, it worked, enough so that the idea of Caley leaving to go run his own offense was very much in play.

Caley traveled to New England for a second interview with the Patriots, whom he worked for from 2015–22, over the weekend of the conference title games, and was offered the Patriots offensive coordinator job by his old staffmate Jerod Mayo. And he was offered it at a very competitive salary, which reflected the respect Mayo has for him.

It was tough to say no. But Caley had such a good experience last year with the Rams, that the idea of leaving was more difficult than turning down a coordinator job. So he stayed, and McVay, as I’ve heard the story, was ecstatic that he did (and McVay showed that emphatically on the phone with Caley when he was told he was staying). In turn, the Rams have since made it worth his while by giving him the pass-game coordinator title that Robinson left behind when he decided to go run his own offense in Atlanta under Morris.