John Shaw Coach Quotations

We use that title (general manager) to indicate that there's a person running our personnel side, or talent evaluation side, subject to whatever influence or control the coach might have on that, ... But it's clear that Jay is the everyday football executive with the most authority, subject only to a veto by myself or owners.

We're one of those organizations where the coach has a significant amount of influence over personnel,

We deferred taking any action until we were assured that Coach Martz had regained his health. His doctor advised us that Mike was fully recovered on January 1, 2006.

We concluded that it didn't make a whole lot of sense to make changes without the new coach being involved.

We want a coach that we think will improve our product and put a more competitive team on the field right now. We have identified a list of candidates. It's quite a wide list. We will do this immediately, but diligently. I know there will be a number of coaching vacancies, but we will do it in a way that suits us.

As I speak to you today, I fully expect that Mike will be our coach next year.

There was a belief at that time that we didn't need the (pro personnel) process so defined, or that position so defined ... that our head coach and our scouting department would be more involved. I think now there's kind of a belief that we should have a more traditional setup where there is a director of pro personnel. And it's more clearly defined.

After all of these interviews, it was clear to us that coach Linehan should be the next coach of the St. Louis Rams.

At some point after the hiring of Coach Linehan, we all decided to go through the current draft and then re-evaluate.

In my mind, we need to address the issue as to whether we would even offer an extension to a head coach who hasn't coached here this year,