Rams COO has strong message about Super Bowl coordinator as head-coach candidate

Los Angeles Rams chief operating officer Kevin Demoff felt that was a fair question from Hill. Demoff took to X on Tuesday to praise Spagnuolo and said it is “well past time” that the 64-year-old got another opportunity to be a head coach in the NFL.

“It is well past time to see Spags get another head coaching opportunity,” Demoff wrote in response to Hill’s post. “The team & organization he inherited in STL was a mess, nobody could have had success. Yet he changed the culture/staff & players believed. An amazing human deserving of the real shot we couldn’t give him.”

Spagnuolo was the head coach of the then-St. Louis Rams from 2009-2011. He went 10-38 in three seasons, but he inherited a terrible roster that had won just five total games in the two previous seasons combined. Even Demoff thinks the Rams did not give Spagnuolo a fair chance to succeed.

The Chiefs held opponents to just 17.3 points and 289.8 yards per game this season. They allowed just 7 points in their Wild Card Round win over the Dolphins, 24 in the Divisional Round against the Buffalo Bills, and 10 in their AFC Championship Game win over the Baltimore Ravens. Spagnuolo’s unit then made life extremely difficult for the 49ers with perfectly timed blitzes and disguised coverages.

Kansas City looked beatable on offense for much of the season, but their defense kept them in games. Spagnuolo deserves much of the credit for that, and Demoff is not the only one who feels Spags has earned another shot at coaching a team.