Rams Hiring O'Connell as OC & Brandon Staley as DC

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Rams hiring Kevin O'Connell as OC, Staley as DC

 

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• By Jeremy Bergman
• Around The NFL Writer
• Published: Jan. 10, 2020 at 09:00 p.m.
• Updated: Jan. 10, 2020 at 09:34 p.m.

 

 

 

After losing two coordinators in less than a week, Sean McVay is quickly re-staffing in Los Angeles.

The Rams are hiring former Redskins offensive coordinator Kevin O'Connell as their offensive coordinator and Broncos outside linebackers coach Brandon Staley as their new defensive coordinator, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Friday night, per a source.

Los Angeles parted ways with defensive coordinator Wade Phillips this week after three seasons. Longtime special teams coach John Fassel is expected to join Mike McCarthy's staff in Dallas. L.A. did not have an offensive coordinator last season, and Rapoport reported McVay was "stretched thin."

Both McConnell and Staley spent time with McVay this week before he made the hires, Rapoport reported.

McConnell, 34, spent the last three seasons in D.C. succeeding McVay on Jay Gruden's offensive coaching staff as QB coach, passing game coordinator and then OC. He was previously an NFL quarterback for five seasons and an offensive assistant in Cleveland and San Francisco.

Staley, 37, has spent three seasons coaching outside linebackers in the NFL, all under Vic Fangio, who hired him with the Chicago Bears and then brought him along to Denver when Fangio became Broncos coach. A former quarterback at the University of Dayton, Staley has 15 years of coaching experience, rising from Hutchinson Community College in 2011 to James Madison in 2014 to Division III college John Carroll in 2013 and 2015 to the Bears in 2017.

Going from a 72-year-old veteran defensive coordinator to a 37-year-old first-time DC and a 34-year-old OC will be quite an adjustment for McVay, 33, and the Rams, but one the youthful franchise is used to by now.

[New York Mick]

Damn. Whitey is killing it this year. Getting hired left and right. 
 

[isired]

Until there are more minorities in low- and mid-level positions, I don't see how anyone thinks there will be a run on minority HCs (or coordinators for that matter). Is the percentage of minority HC hires much lower than caucasian if you look at it against the percentage of minority/caucasian NFL staff?

[Ohio State NY Jets fan]

might be the youngest staff ever - shady12 would be the oldest person on the team lol

[T0mShane]

7 hours ago, New York Mick said:

Damn. Whitey is killing it this year. Getting hired left and right. 
 

Impressive resume for the pale young man. Community colleges in Kansas and whatnot ?:

 

Staley, 37, just completed his first season with the Broncos after following Vic Fangio from Chicago.

Staley spent two seasons as the Bears outside linebackers coach.

He previously held collegiate coaching roles at John Carroll University (2013, 2015-16), James Madison University (2014), University of Tennessee (2012), Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College (2010-11), University of St. Thomas (2009) and Northern Illinois University (2006-08).

[Adoni Beast]

O’Connell on the fast track to being a HC. A year or two with McVay and he’ll be a HC somewhere, and actually deserve it.

[playtowinthegame]

Tis the season for meritocracy.

[varjet]

I am glad that the Jets are standing pat with their great coaching staff and not making any changes or tweaks. 

[rangerous]

5 hours ago, Adoni Beast said:

O’Connell on the fast track to being a HC. A year or two with McVay and he’ll be a HC somewhere, and actually deserve it.

wasn't o'connell a qb with the patsies and the jets?

[fusionCA]

14 minutes ago, rangerous said:

wasn't o'connell a qb with the patsies and the jets?

yes

he has seen the top of the hill and the bottom of the barrel