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Now that Josh McDaniels has joined up with the New England Patriots heading into their Divisional showdown with the Denver Broncos, the St. Louis Rams have to feel good about their decision. The motivation behind the Rams allowing their offensive coordinator to join up with another team at a moment’s notice was totally financial.
With the Patriots taking on McDaniels for the remainder of the 2011 season, it takes the Rams off the hook for paying any potential severance when they hire their next head coach and allows them to use that cash to pay any new staff that is hired under the next regime. Word has it that when or if Jeff Fisher decides to officially become the Rams new head coach he would not have been interested in keeping McDaniels around as the offensive guru. Had the team been forced to dismiss McDaniels rather than handing him over to New England, they would have been on the hook for next year’s salary as he was under contract through the 2012 season.
At this point it seems the biggest loser in this entire ordeal is McDaniels’ former employer in the Broncos who will now have to not only deal with a Tom Brady led offense of the prolific Patriots, but also face a former insider. In typical Bill Belichick fashion, one can only assume that the Pats have been picking McDaniels’ brain ferociously since learning that Denver would be their upcoming opponent gaining any and every advantage they can on the Broncos’ personnel prior to this weekend’s upcoming contest. The Pats would surely already have been a heavy favorite in the gaming heading in, but now thanks to the Rams, New England has an even bigger advantage for Saturday evening’s tussle.
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