Its hasn’t been one full week for the reason that Los Angeles Rams misplaced to the Seattle Seahawks within the NFC Championship Game, however the Rams are already making strikes by hiring a new special teams coordinator in Raymond “Bubba” Ventrone.
Ventrone is a former NFL participant and was most not too long ago with the Cleveland Browns as their assistant head coach and special teams coordinator below then head coach Kevin Stefanski. With Stefanski out, and Todd Monken now in Cleveland, that opened up the potential of Ventrone to the Rams.
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That chance is now a actuality.
L.A. interviewed Ventrone this week and preferred him sufficient to provide him the job, which both signifies that Ventrone did very effectively in his interview, or the Rams have been that determined to make a special teams change after one other shaky season.
The actuality for the Rams might be each; they wished to make a change, AND Sean McVay, Les Snead and Co. really feel that Ventrone is the precise man for the job.
Fans of the group will possible simply be completely happy to see the workforce making a swap. Chase Blackburn had been main the unit the final two seasons, and was happening a 3rd earlier than he was fired and changed by Ben Kotwica earlier than the tip of the 2025 season.
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Of course, below Kotwica it appeared just like the unit was exhibiting enchancment, after which Xavier Smith fumbled within the Championship Game, and that led to a Rams loss, the tip of their season and some days later, the hiring of Ventrone.
It was possible that L.A. would’ve moved on from Kotwica both means, however with L.A.‘s offseason officially underway, there was no need to wait anymore.
Enter Ventrone who has a tremendous opportunity in front of him, and looks to turn around a unit that’s been inconsistent during the last three seasons.