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Originally Posted by RAMarkable
This may be off topic, but the guy I wanted for D.C. was Jim Bates. Unfortunately he apparently wanted H.C money ($1.5mill+). Do you, or anyone else, know where he ended up?
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I did a little research, and it appears that he's sitting at home this year, being paid on a contract with the Packers. Interestingly, according to this part of an article from a Green Bay paper dated October 19, he was almost the Rams DC:
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Bates, who was under contract with the Packers through the 2007 season, was offered at least one defensive coordinator position - with the St. Louis Rams. Bates turned that job down, because he thought he was in line for the same position with the Dallas Cowboys, which might have been a better stepping stone to a head coaching job, but the job in Dallas surprisingly fell through.
“There were jobs that I thought I was going to get, and it was a weird deal and kind of crazy how it all went down,” Bates said. “There were a couple of jobs that I thought I had secured and ended up going in another direction.”
Had Bates taken the job in St. Louis, the Packers likely wouldn’t have owed him a dime, because the Rams were prepared to offer Bates more than $1 million a year.
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Interesting to note. If the Rams D shows some improvement, and Haslett gets an offer to be a Head Coach somewhere (though, at the moment, that seems highly unlikely) could the Rams make a run at Bates? I always thought he was a good DC down in Miami and then with the Packers.
You never know.