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02.06.2010 10:47 am
Ex-Rams eager to help Spags
By Jim Thomas
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Isaac Bruce is interested in working with Rams wide receivers. Jack Youngblood would love to spend some time coaching up Chris Long. And Todd Lyght is hoping for a training camp coaching internship with the team this summer.
“Great. Bring ‘em all.They could have my job,” coach Steve Spagnuolo joked. “That’s a big-time compliment that guys like that would think that way. I’ll certainly be more than happy to talk to guys like that. And if it fits in and works in, we would try to do it.”
It seemingly would be very easy to set up Lyght with one of the camp internships. And what could it hurt bringing in Youngblood for a few days during camp to work with Long or any of the defensive ends?
As for Bruce, despite his interest in possibly coaching Rams wide receivers, after 16 years of hard work as a player _ and Bruce’s work ethic was exemplary _ logging the 16-hour days necessary as an assistant coach may not really be what he wants to do, particularly since he recently became a father. But you just know that once Spagnuolo sits down with Bruce, he’s going to like him. And perhaps something could be worked out.
The baseball Cardinals seem to know how to embrace their past. The new regime at Rams Park seems to struggle embracing the Rams’ past. And it’s not for lack of respect.
“I love the past,” general manager Billy Devaney said. “And Spags feels the same way. You’ve got to respect the game. And obviously you respect even more so the great Ram players that were part of it. And we do. The stuff that they accomplished was incredible. You have great respect for it.”
But sometimes, Devaney says, too many voices can hurt the development of a young player rather than help.
“Sometimes you get too much information,” Devaney said. “You get overload. And we’ve had a number of coaches pass through here. Donnie Avery is going into his third year. He’s on his third position coach. There’s a lot of cases like that where the intention is great and we embrace everything that the player stood for, and we recognize that. But sometimes it also can be too much, it can have a negative effect on somebody.
“How many people has Marc Bulger had in his ear the past three years? Coordinators, quarterback coaches, head coaches. A lot of these guys just need to settle down in the same system and I think they’ll be better off for it.”
Ex-Rams eager to help Spags
By Jim Thomas
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Isaac Bruce is interested in working with Rams wide receivers. Jack Youngblood would love to spend some time coaching up Chris Long. And Todd Lyght is hoping for a training camp coaching internship with the team this summer.
“Great. Bring ‘em all.They could have my job,” coach Steve Spagnuolo joked. “That’s a big-time compliment that guys like that would think that way. I’ll certainly be more than happy to talk to guys like that. And if it fits in and works in, we would try to do it.”
It seemingly would be very easy to set up Lyght with one of the camp internships. And what could it hurt bringing in Youngblood for a few days during camp to work with Long or any of the defensive ends?
As for Bruce, despite his interest in possibly coaching Rams wide receivers, after 16 years of hard work as a player _ and Bruce’s work ethic was exemplary _ logging the 16-hour days necessary as an assistant coach may not really be what he wants to do, particularly since he recently became a father. But you just know that once Spagnuolo sits down with Bruce, he’s going to like him. And perhaps something could be worked out.
The baseball Cardinals seem to know how to embrace their past. The new regime at Rams Park seems to struggle embracing the Rams’ past. And it’s not for lack of respect.
“I love the past,” general manager Billy Devaney said. “And Spags feels the same way. You’ve got to respect the game. And obviously you respect even more so the great Ram players that were part of it. And we do. The stuff that they accomplished was incredible. You have great respect for it.”
But sometimes, Devaney says, too many voices can hurt the development of a young player rather than help.
“Sometimes you get too much information,” Devaney said. “You get overload. And we’ve had a number of coaches pass through here. Donnie Avery is going into his third year. He’s on his third position coach. There’s a lot of cases like that where the intention is great and we embrace everything that the player stood for, and we recognize that. But sometimes it also can be too much, it can have a negative effect on somebody.
“How many people has Marc Bulger had in his ear the past three years? Coordinators, quarterback coaches, head coaches. A lot of these guys just need to settle down in the same system and I think they’ll be better off for it.”
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