Rams part with defensive coordinator Wade Phillips and running backs coach Skip Peete
by Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times
Jan 07, 2020
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - They were a generational mix that helped lead the Los Angeles Rams to the Super Bowl.
After the Rams made the then 30-year-old Sean McVay the youngest coach in modern NFL history, McVay hired Wade Phillips - an NFL coach since 1976 - as his defensive coordinator.
"He jokes that he's ready for Medicare," McVay said in January 2017, "and I'm ready for day care."
The innovative, offense-minded McVay leaned on and learned from the sage Phillips as the
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