TheTim5125
Waterboy
Does anyone know the situation with Kyle Turley and Mike Martz? If so please elaborate.
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Vinny said:and Turley went ...well, Turley on him.
Speaking of Martz, it's pretty clear he's toast after the season. If so, I wonder if the Texans would bring Martz in as a Jim Fassel type consultant? Martz was with the Skins as a QB coach in '97 & '98. Don't know what kind of relationship he had with Casserly back then.
There's only one bigwig in the Rams front office larger then Martz, and that's team president John Shaw. The other "bigwigs", like director of pro football operations Jay Zygmunt & GM Charley Armey, defer to Martz in all football decisions. Maybe the guys at ESPN should get their stories straight. It was Chris Mortensen who broke the Martz firing rumor last week. A guy a little closer to the Rams situation than the ESPN jocks, STL Post-Dispatch's Bernie Miklasz, has this to say about the Rams front office lovefest:texan279 said:I was watching one of the football shows on ESPN earlier today and they said that all of the big wigs in the Rams front office love Martz and he is going nowhere.
It's quite possible that Martz will quit if Shaw strips him of his defacto GM powers. Shaw could just look at the number of PSLs being returned by fans and realize he has no choice but to fire Martz in order to stop the bleeding. Really, wasn't owner Georgia Frontiere's "vote of confidence" last week the last nail in Martz's coffin? The Turley incident is akin to jumping on his grave.The Rams have a dysfunctional front office, contaminated by distrust and paranoia.
The Zygmunt-Martz relationship, once so warm, has turned cold. Armey is out of the loop; his authority has been reduced to that of a glorified scout. The three wise men spend too much time worrying about what the others are saying, and doing, behind the scenes.
No wonder the Rams are misfiring on draft picks and free-agent signings; the football brains of the organization are distracted by the increasingly contentious inter-office chess match to determine who will be left standing as king. When Zygmunt, Armey and Martz are working in harmony, dedicated to a common goal, they can construct a good football team. But this collision of egos is doing too much damage.
TheTim5125 said:If Turley did become available... i'd take a shot at him.. he was a pretty good Tackle with the saints
My thought on the whole situation is if Turley doesn't want to play for the Rams, do we take a shot, go after him, and put him in at LT or am I crazy for thinking this?
BuffSoldier said:I think he might be able to do a better job than Seth Wand is doing right now.
infantrycak said:Turley gave up 13.5 sacks and had 8 penalties when he tried to play LT in NO in his 5th year in the league. Wand has given up 11.5 sacks and 3 penalties in his 1st year of play. The grass is not always greener.
Vinny said:Martz claimed that Turley threatend to kill him when they argued from what I understand. Martz told him that he was "stealing money" as an injured player and Turley went ...well, Turley on him.
dan7 said:How Mike Martz ever became a Head Coach in the NFL is beyond me...
Ihategeeks said:And stats only tell part of the story.
Aaron Brooks is a scrambling QB, your tackles are going to get more sacks on them because of that. Turley was a great Tackle before his injury. Right now it would be risky for you.
Turley's playing weight is listed as 309 pounds, about average for an NFL offensive lineman, but he has shrunk to about 240 pounds since the injury. He said in August that he lost about 30 pounds due to forced inactivity following the surgery.
BuffSoldier said:I think he might be able to do a better job than Seth Wand is doing right now.