[TomSlick]

Just a gut feel on my part, but I think Demoff, Fisher, Snead and Stan (well, he probably won't saying anything about the anything)...the first three guys are going to use the excuse, "Well, the move really set us back...we didn't have facilities, players were distracted, etc." to explain another impending 7-9 season. Fisher is on the case, along with Boras and Groh. I dunno guys, it just seems like Fisher associated with anything is not comforting. My guess is that Fisher gets a one year extension.

As for Stan, until Fisher is canned, I'm not convinced championship football is high on his list of priorities.

[max]

WITH THE MOVE TO L.A. IS THERE ADDED PRESSURE THIS OFFSEASON TO PUT A WINNING TEAM ON THE FIELD?

More pressure than St. Louis? No. You always want to put out a winner. But I think, obviously, you’re under a microscope from a whole different segment. In St. Louis you had a fanbase, they knew your players, they knew your team and they followed it forever. I think people’s first look – and one of the things in Los Angeles, you have a lot of people who might be Steelers fans or Browns fans or Giants fans growing up. All of a sudden they’re new (Rams fans) and they want to believe in your team but they want to get behind a winner. Certainly for us, we have to find a way to break through. We’ve been at the cusp. But we need to make sure we develop a winner. That’s true every year. But I think you’d be naive to think it doesn’t play a bigger role this year than it has past years. Not that your try more or you care any more, but I do think the microscope and the spotlight are on our organization in a way it has not been the last few years.

That's a relief. He didn't say what I feared he said.

All he says, basically, is that yes, you're under a new microscope in a new town.

He didn't say they weren't trying before.

And Elvis, I wasn't being critical of you. You put up a "placeholder" transcript in lieu of the longer thing, which you knew was coming, and that kind of effort is always appreciated. And typing up a quick transcript of a long interview from memory is inherently tricky.

I am just glad he did not make the mortal mistake of saying that they are trying harder NOW. That would have been a fatal thing to say...and I say that speaking as a Rams fan. . . .where they play has nothing to do with it for me. I don't live in either LA or St.L (though I have lived in both, years ago).

Yes you want to appeal to the new fanbase, but you don't want to come off as mercs who didn't try to win before.


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Well, actually he said more than "you're under a new microscope in a new town."

He said the town he's in now is a bigger deal than the town he was in before.

Let's not obscure the difference between LA and STL.

[Elvis]

The part that caught my ear was:

"But we need to make sure we develop a winner. That’s true every year. But I think you’d be naive to think it doesn’t play a bigger role this year than it has past years."

Yes he qualified it many times, many ways and the context is important, but that part still strikes me.

He also said they were focusing on the valley for TC, which makes sense, especially if he meant further west like Thousand Oaks or even Oxnard since it's cooler and easily accessible from Malibu...

[/zn/]

Let's not obscure the difference between LA and STL.

Well, basically...I don't give a damm about that.

Again, having lived both places.

Either way, I suspect that that's a minor point that gets magnified or minimized depending on the individual reader.

That is, there's good and bad elements to playing in a big market, and good and bad elements to playing in a small market. Demoff is certainly going to do his job and PR-up the effects of playing in a big market. It's why we pay him so much.


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[max]

Let's not obscure the difference between LA and STL.

Well, basically...I don't give a damm about that.

Again, having lived both places.

Either way, I suspect that that's a minor point that gets magnified or minimized depending on the individual reader.

That is, there's good and bad elements to playing in a big market, and good and bad elements to playing in a small market. Demoff is certainly going to do his job and PR-up the effects of playing in a big market. It's why we pay him so much.


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Well, yeah. You're pulling a J.D. Salinger now, living in unexplored territory where there are more moose than people.

[/zn/]

Let's not obscure the difference between LA and STL.

Well, basically...I don't give a damm about that.

Again, having lived both places.

Either way, I suspect that that's a minor point that gets magnified or minimized depending on the individual reader.

That is, there's good and bad elements to playing in a big market, and good and bad elements to playing in a small market. Demoff is certainly going to do his job and PR-up the effects of playing in a big market. It's why we pay him so much.


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Well, yeah. You're pulling a J.D. Salinger now, living in unexplored territory where there are more moose than people.

Damm right.

[Hacksaw]

I really doubt the team was throwing games but I could see where they were more reluctant to build a winner with a potential move or not occurring in the near future. A different level of financial commitment and future planning depending on the outcome of the future NFL decision. It certainly didn't hurt the Rams chances by having apathetic fans in StLoo though. My point being, it is not all black and white. We will never know the real truth.

[Elvis]

http://www.insidesocal.com/nfl/2016/02/ ... -uniforms/

About those Rams uniforms

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Vincent Bonsignore
Because so many people have asked me about the Los Angeles Rams uniforms, and whether they’ll go back to their old L.A. Rams color scheme, this is what Rams’ President Kevin Demoff told me about where the Rams are on uniforms Friday on my radio show on the Beast 980:

“It is never a conversation without talking about the uniforms. People have been sending me uniform ideas, and we are open to any and all ideas. One thing I will say about the uniforms is, when we begin the process of a uniform re-design we’ll engage the community and we’ll engage the fans. I know they all love the old color scheme and that’s something that’s on the plate and we’ll continue to discuss it as we move forward. But the throwbacks we use now, the old 70’s and 80’s colors, will certainly have a place over the next few seasons and from there we’ll see what can be done.”

[Hacksaw]

I really doubt the team was throwing games but I could see where they were more reluctant to build a winner with a potential move or not occurring in the near future. A different level of financial commitment and future planning depending on the outcome of the future NFL decision. It certainly didn't hurt the Rams chances by having apathetic fans in StLoo though. My point being, it is not all black and white. We will never know the real truth.

Also, how easy was it for a team in relocation limbo to acquire top coaches, coordinators and FA's? Who would want to step into that hot mess ?

[Elvis]

BTW, Kevin didn't mistakenly call Laurinaitis "John." that was a typo by Vinny...