Good move, awful move

After getting to watch good football all weekend, it's back to bad football with some Rams news.

Reports are that erstwhile OC Greg Olson has been let go. That's an overdue move, although I thought Scott Linehan actually took over the playcalling very early this season and don't recall any report that he'd given Olson any of the reins back.

So there's a scapegoat firing.

The other coach being cut loose? You'd think it'd be the special teams coach, but no, it's one of the team's few genuinely good unit coaches, offensive line coach Paul Boudreau.

Let me get this right. Linehan gets a pass as head coach because there were so many injuries on the offensive line, but that same condition doesn't grant forgiveness to an offensive line coach who did a superb job last year, and has proven himself in the NFL at his position?

That is a stupid, stupid move. Just what this organization needs; a mediocre-at-best head coach consolidating his power by getting rid of a very good assistant coach.

It's widely assumed the Rams are going to go after Cam Cameron, freshly fired as Dolphin HC, as their new OC. I'll have to study up on that idea, but I have NO ENTHUSIASM WHATSOEVER for that move based on how Cameron ran things in Miami this year. He and his offense were a total joke from day one, though he'll have better talent here in St. Louis.

How about the notion that the Rams bring in Cameron and ex-Dolphin line coach Hudson Houck to fill the new staff openings? Can Linehan look outside Miami for ANY acquisition for this team? Are the Rams really going to attempt to improve by raiding the former staff of the only team worse than them this past year?

Oy.