Written by John Breech at CBSSports.com
If you were going to make a list of NFL coaches who are sitting on the hot seat this week, it would definitely include Rams coach Jeff Fisher, who watched his team get trampled 42-14 by the Falcons on Sunday.
The Rams were so bad in the loss that after the game running back Todd Gurley said his team is running a “middle school offense.” If you’ve seen the Rams play, then you know Gurley’s comment was basically an insult to middle school offenses.
The running back has a point — the Rams’ offense has been such a disaster this year that the Falcons have actually scored more touchdowns in L.A. this season than the Rams have.
The Falcons have played one game in L.A. The Rams have played six.
The team’s return to Los Angeles has been so bad through 14 weeks that fans have already stopped showing up to watch the team play. During the team’s loss to the Falcons, the Rams played in front of a half-empty stadium, which is a horrible sign for a a team that’s in its first-year in a city and still has two home games left.
If Rams owner Stan Kroenke wants to keep fans interested, he is going to have make a splash move, so what would be a good splash move?
Hiring Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh would probably qualify.
With the college regular season over, coaching rumors are going to fly, and one of those rumors involves Harbaugh. During an interview with Colin Cowherd on Dec. 9, MMQB’s Albert Breer had an interesting comment about the Rams coaching situation as it pertains to the current Michigan coach.
“By the way, Albert Breer on the way out said that Jim Harbaugh to the Rams rumor is a very real thing,” Cowherd said at the end of Breer’s segment.
Does that mean Harbaugh is going sign a deal with the Rams five minutes after Michigan is done playing in the Orange Bowl? No.
However, it wouldn’t be a shock if Harbaugh did land in L.A.
For one, Kroenke is one of the NFL’s richest owners, so he is going to be able to throw as much money as he needs to at whichever coaching candidate he decides to go after. For an owner who has everything riding on a new stadium set to open in 2019, $10 million a year might not be out of the question.
Second, Harbaugh is notoriously nomadic. In 12 years as a head coach, Harbaugh has never spent more than four seasons with one team, and he just finished up season No. 2 in Ann Arbor.
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