Grading the coaching changes

OK, enough of the Super Bowl; everybody's 0-0 now, tied for first, which makes the Rams competitive for the first time in quite a while.

Scott Linehan, to his credit, hasn't sat on his hands this offseason and has made several changes to the coaching staff. At least one of the moves he's made looks very promising. A couple of others just look like extensions of the FOSL job security plan. Some of the moves are or could become a mixture of both.

Over the next few entries, I run down the coaching staff changes made so far, and grade each one. So far Linehan's averaging a solid C, though to abuse the report card idiom, at least he got the A in an important course like math or English, and the other grades are in lesser classes like art class or marching band.