{"id":461415,"date":"2025-12-21T03:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/461415\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T03:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:46:17","slug":"los-angeles-rams-fire-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/461415\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Rams fire coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Rams are getting what very well might be the best season of veteran quarterback Matthew Stafford\u2019s career. However, Los Angeles suffered a brutal defeat to their divisional rivals, the Seattle Seahawks, which has changed the entire outlook of their season.<\/p>\n<p>The loss knocked the Rams out of first place in the NFC, which means giving up the coveted first-round bye that comes with it. To make matters worse, the Rams would have to travel on the road in the Wild Card round as things currently stand.<\/p>\n<p>It was the type of loss that Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay knows can completely derail a Super Bowl run, and now a head is rolling as a consequence, according to one prominent insider around the league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cESPN sources: Rams fired special teams coordinator Chase Blackburn. The Rams\u2019 special teams played a role in three of the team\u2019s four losses this season, including Thursday night\u2019s defeat in Seattle, and now changes are being made,\u201d ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter reported on Saturday before following up with more context.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow rare is this? This represents the first in-season coaching change that Rams head coach Sean McVay ever has had.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How rare is this? This represents the first in-season coaching change that Rams head coach Sean McVay ever has had. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ug74B6OvBU\">https:\/\/t.co\/ug74B6OvBU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2002488500571287606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fans reacted to the news on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA serious organization. The Packers would never,\u201d one fan wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome teams demand excellence. Others accept incompetence,\u201d another fan added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis needed to happen\u2026 Rams need to bring home John Fassel. Our Special Teams have been horrible almost every year since we let him go in 2020,\u201d someone else wrote.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s refreshing to see a team do whatever neccesary in the pursuit of a Super Bowl rather than accept mediocrity like so many franchises seem content to do.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Rams are getting what very well might be the best season of veteran quarterback Matthew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":461416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[210539,1318,9006,1317,1315,1316,32896,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-461415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-chase-blackburn","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-ncaafootball","14":"tag-sean-mcvay","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}