LA Rams must hire Mike Pettine as LB coach ASAP

All-Pro coaching

Now you put him on a team with All-Pro defensive studs Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey and all you ask of him is to coach up the linebackers? Pettine would need some leeway, of course, to do things his way. But as a coach who has seen it all, done it all, from positional coach to head coach, Pettine would certainly seem, well, uber-qualified.

This guy’s a blue-collar, bring-his-lunch-pail-to-work kinda coach, with a team-first mentality and an extremely high NFL-football intelligence. After all, he grew up around football, serving four years as an assistant coach under his father at Central Bucks West High School, in Pennsylvania at the beginning of his career.

Football’s just in his blood.

He followed Ryan to the Buffalo Bills, serving as a defensive coach in 2013, and then landed the head coaching gig with the Cleveland Browns in 2014. Pettine went 10–22 in two seasons as Cleveland’s head coach. A lot of good coaches have gone to Cleveland over the years, only to falter there. And although he started the 2014 season by going 7–4, the Browns lost their final five games to finish a disappointing 7–9. After the Browns went 3–13 the following season, Pettine was fired, along with general manager Ray Farmer.

In 2017, Pettine worked as a “consultant” for the Seattle Seahawks. Hey, he knows a little something or two about the inner workings of one of our toughest NFC West division rivals = Bonus points! And let us not forget he also knows the skinny, the inside scoop on the NFC North, teams the Rams see on their 2021 schedule ahead. More bonus points!

Bottom line: Pettine has the pedigree. And the LA Rams need a solid, dependable football guy. Voila! The Rams need to sign this guy up now before a rival does instead.