Looming offseason questions of ‘08 (Yahoo! Sports)
Looming offseason questions of ‘08 (Yahoo! Sports)
From free agency and the draft to the latest spying allegations, this will be another busy NFL offseason.
“It’s not going to be the case where I come and say, ‘I disagree. I think you’re in great shape here at a certain position,’”
Billy Devaney, the St. Louis Rams’ new executive vice president of player personnel, developed his eye for talent working under Bobby Beathard, the maverick NFL general manager known for his wheeling and dealing of first-round draft picks.
‘I worked under Bobby for a long time, and I think I got Jay (Zygmunt) nervous this morning, because the first thing I said was ‘Have we traded that first-round draft pick yet?” Devaney joked. ”What the heck, what’s taking you so long? You mean we still have that?” Read more
Gibbs’ resignation put Rams’ new coordinator on market (AP)
Though he had been mentioned as a candidate for the Washington Redskins head coaching job, Al Saunders figured he’d be changing teams when Joe Gibbs resigned in early January. Negotiations with the St. Louis Rams began several days before Saunders was formally fired on Saturday, a day after the Redskins hired Jim Zorn as his replacement to run their offense.
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