After starting 0-4 for the second straight year the St. Louis Rams have parted ways with head coach Scott Linehan. In his 36 games as the team's head coach Linehan managed to win only 11 games.  He will be replaced on an interim basis by defensive coordinator Jim Haslett, formerly a head coach with the New Orleans Saints.

An argument was made to keep Linehan in place, in part because Rosenbloom and Rodriguez wondered if their late mother, former Rams owner Georgia Frontiere, would have approved of firing Linehan. Before her death, Frontiere asked that Linehan be given a third season as head coach, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

But in the end, the team's stunning lack of competitiveness -- eight straight losses, and 17 losses in the last 20 games by an average of 18 points -- dictated a coaching change heading into the Rams' bye week.

It amazes me that in two weeks we've seen the winless Lions can team president Matt Millen and the Rams say c-ya to Linehan, yet Bengals' head coach Marvin Lewis is safely entrenched in mediocrity. The Bengals are a joke right now and there is no way Lewis is going to turn that around. 

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