[scodanri]

I think the defense will improve based on 2 things. First, they were ranked very low and only have room to improve. Second, the addition of Haslett and new personnel should get them back to the middle of the pack.
However, I am not going to jump on the "The defense was horrible because of Larry Marmie" bandwagon. I am not saying he was a great coordinator. I think he is average. Considering the place and time he was in the NFL, most coordinators would not have had success in Pheonix and with the state of the Rams defensive personnel the past two seasons. Maybe his schemes were not great, but a scheme can't work when a DT like Kennedy gets single blocked and taken out of a play consistenty, the LB's always getting caught up in the "trash" and making bad reads, DE's who are unable to contain a ball carrier in their area, safeties who shouldn't even be in the league with their lack of ability to cut off the angle on a ball carrier. Is it Marmie's fault that Claiborn and Coakley were useless? Was it Marmies fault that Pisa made a "bad" play for every good one? Did Adam Archuleta do anything other than intercept a pass from McNair and return it for a TD? Is Anthony Hargrove the best the Rams can put on the field at RDE?
The coordinator is not going to make the Rams defense great, the players will.