Thomas Brown hired for Panthers OC job

[OldSchool]

Didn’t Higbey just have his best year? How much better could Brown have done with what he had to work with in the TE room?

Yeah Brown did good considering other than Higs he didn't have much to work with. Hopefully they give the new guy a toy.

 

[Psycho_X]

Yeah this one really sucks. I have no idea if he'll be a good OC but he proved he was a great position coach.

 

[TheTackle]

Congratulations, he deserves a promotion and is going to work for a very good coach. If it doesn’t work out then he is always welcome back

 

[MrOrange]

Do we really know if this is that big of a loss? He has been the RB coach since 2020, have our running backs really performed that great in that time frame? Akers has shown some flashes but has never stopped 800 yards in a season, Henderson never turned into anything that great... I feel like we keep assuming he is a good coach because that's what McVay keeps telling everybody, but where are the results? Gurley proved that a RB can have success in this offense. I know the blocking hasn't always been that great, but I wonder if that is the entire problem, or if maybe part of it is that Brown hasn't lived up to his press clippings.

 

[OnceARam]

He definitely helped out our young, young RB coach (who is no longer with us) manage a room that got out of control. We'll never know what happened last year with Akers, but we do know that Thomas Brown was asked to come back into the RB fold in order to restore order. Hopefully, we find some good replacements.

 

[OldSchool]

Yeah I don't get the thought that Brown wasn't good at his job.


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[So Ram]

Do we really know if this is that big of a loss? He has been the RB coach since 2020, have our running backs really performed that great in that time frame? Akers has shown some flashes but has never stopped 800 yards in a season, Henderson never turned into anything that great... I feel like we keep assuming he is a good coach because that's what McVay keeps telling everybody, but where are the results? Gurley proved that a RB can have success in this offense. I know the blocking hasn't always been that great, but I wonder if that is the entire problem, or if maybe part of it is that Brown hasn't lived up to his press clippings.

Dude just got a promotion to OC. I think that answers your question.

The question might be now,if you’re bringing up the past is. Do The Rams bring back Skip Pete?

 

[den-the-coach]

Brown Has Never Called Plays and still won't in Carolina​

I like Thomas Brown and I believe he's an very good RB Coach and I understand he wanted the title, but Frank Reich will be calling the plays and McVay could have promoted Brown to OC, but went with Mike LaFleur instead. Again good for Brown to garner the OC title, however, hopefully he'll get a chance to call plays down the road.

Interesting to see where McVay goes as last year they dipped into college with Samples, but that didn't work out well and Brown was given the opportunity to hire his replacement and failed with the Samples hire FWIW.

 

[madrid311]

we needed new blood after last year's all-consuming brain fart. he was never going to call plays anyway and we need to win in 23. go mike!

 

[RamFanWA]

McVay’s Rams…
We go 5-12 and our staff still gets poached

Ya but - they all forgot about Raheem....

 

[Rams43]

Didn’t Higbey just have his best year? How much better could Brown have done with what he had to work with in the TE room?

Hopkins is practically the poster boy for untapped potential. Rams gave never gotten nearly the production fully expected from Hopkins when drafted.

Is that ALL on Hopkins? I don’t think so.

 

[So Ram]

Brown Has Never Called Plays and still won't in Carolina​

I like Thomas Brown and I believe he's an very good RB Coach and I understand he wanted the title, but Frank Reich will be calling the plays and McVay could have promoted Brown to OC, but went with Mike LaFleur instead. Again good for Brown to garner the OC title, however, hopefully he'll get a chance to call plays down the road.

Interesting to see where McVay goes as last year they dipped into college with Samples, but that didn't work out well and Brown was given the opportunity to hire his replacement and failed with the Samples hire FWIW.

Thought it was a Raheem Morris hire? Fwiw - the interesting thing to me will be how the coaching staff will fill out.
Zak Kromer was the TE’s coach when Thomas Brown went back to coach the RB’s. Then Thadus got fired,so does that put Shula as the DE/OLB group? Who will be the special teams coach?
—Just waiting to hear from Sean Mcvay on his thoughts.He usually is straight up & might be a little pissed at the reporters.They sort of threw him under-the-bus & created extra drama. This Jalen Ramsey talk is another part of reporters adding to it as well.Nit saying it won’t happen.Sort of like all the posters talking about Stafford retiring.

 

[dieterbrock]

Rams should have made him OC instead of just plucking guys from outside. We'll be fine with who we have but I'd have preferred to see McVay make a head coach out of one of his guys

 

[dieterbrock]

Hopkins is practically the poster boy for untapped potential. Rams gave never gotten nearly the production fully expected from Hopkins when drafted.

Is that ALL on Hopkins? I don’t think so.

Cant blame Brown for that. Hopkins has been an abject failure since he was drafted. Heck, Brown got more out of him than Wes Philips ever did

 

[Allen2McVay]

Thought it was a Raheem Morris hire?

No.

McVay gave Brown the responsibility of finding / recommending the RB hire. Obviously, McVay had to approve.

 

[blackbart]

Hopkins is practically the poster boy for untapped potential. Rams gave never gotten nearly the production fully expected from Hopkins when drafted.

Is that ALL on Hopkins? I don’t think so.

I think if he was progressing at all McVay, who was touted as a master at using TE when he was hired, would have figured out how to get more. He hasn’t really bulked up like I thought he should and his blocking is lame. Do, yes, I think that is on him. Your not taking reps from Higbey with what he has put on tape.

 

[Merlin]

Well, just to keep things in perspective, Brown has proven to be an outstanding RB coach

I don't think this is true. Most overrated coach on this staff by far.

To keep things in perspective he oversaw the team continue to go with the same shitty fucking backs year after year. Then he went to TE where they fell off a cliff. Then he went back to RB (after his chosen replacement sucked ass) and inserted the right RB in Akers who managed to stay healthy.

Brown will learn a lot under Reich btw. If he works hard his stock will rise and best of luck to him. But I don't think he's special by any stretch, unless you put 100% stock in what McVay says. I don't. Love McVay but he's so touchy feely sometimes it makes me sick. You can't always get a read on guys based on his comments.

 

[So Ram]

No.

McVay gave Brown the responsibility of finding / recommending the RB hire. Obviously, McVay had to approve.

IDK - someone posted here there were 2 Raheem Morris hires that just got fired.

 

[Allen2McVay]

IDK - someone posted here there were 2 Raheem Morris hires that just got fired.

OK. McVay had his Defensive Coordinator pick his Running Backs coach.

The Assistant Grounds-keeper will be selecting the new Special Teams Coordinator ... because ... special teams are played ... on the ground?

 

[So Ram]

OK. McVay had his Defensive Coordinator pick his Running Backs coach.

The Assistant Grounds-keeper will be selecting the new Special Teams Coordinator ... because ... special teams are played ... on the ground?

You know , you might want to do your research though & look at the connections & relationships before you start to Blue Font.I think I might have thought the same as you until I checked out what a poster on here was saying.
—Just think you’re off beat & need to check it out for yourself. I’m sure there are more posters around here that know The Raheem Morris connection.Then again I could be wrong,and wouldn’t doubt Thomas Brown also had a say in it?

Funny seeing Cooley,Brown, & Evero all in Carolina. Wonder what the connection is there ? 3 Ex-Ram coaches.