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St. Louis Rams: Awful team drafts petition to keep Jim Haslett anyway

According to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report, if it were up to some St. Louis Rams players, Jim Haslett would get the head coaching job. Rams' players have drafted a petition to Rams ownership, asking them to keep Haslett on as head coach.

To begin with, I'm not all that crazy about players on an awful team having time to actually draft a petition during the season. While they were organizing an exploratory committee to seek the best way to make their concerns known to management, they were getting clobbered on the field.

Without Haslett, the Rams were 0-4. With him, they're 2-9.

"He knows what we need on this team," an anonymous veteran player was quoted.

Well since he's won 22% of his games, I can only assume he knows that what the Rams need isn't actually on the team at this point.

Furthermore, if the players believe Haslett knows how to win and their record isn't his fault, doesn't that just put the blame for a 2-13 season right back on their shoulders? If winning twice a year isn't the coach's fault, that pretty much only leaves the players to blame. There are no no-fault divorces in the NFL.