* Committee hearing. Rams head coach Jeff Fisher, who co-chaired the NFL competition committee from 2002-10, has returned to that committee. The competition committee meets to review NFL rules and recommend changes.
Is membership on this committee important? Definitely. It took Mike Martz's and Tony Dungy's influence on the committee in '04 to get the league to return to correctly enforcing the illegal contact rule instead of letting Patriot defensive backs mug wide receivers downfield all game. The change was too late to help Martz, but it helped Dungy over the Belichick hump and to a Super Bowl XLI championship for the Colts.
It's also a nice sign the league takes your team's head coach seriously, and probably draws Fisher at least a scintilla of additional respect from referees who know the coach spends some time with the rule book.
And when you're taking over a 2-14 team, you need every scintilla you can get.
* Rams special teams west. The Chiefs officially named Tom McMahon their special teams coach yesterday. He will be joined in K.C. by former Rams special teams quality control coach Derius Swinton.
Witnessing the recent histories of the two franchises, it's really weird to see the Chiefs snapping up special teams coaches from the Rams. They have fared much better in that phase of the game over the years than the Rams have.
Also gives Dominique Curry an obvious landing place if he doesn't stick here (though I would think he will).
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