Rams Connection List Grows by the Day

The inclusion of Zac Robinson in the Bears offensive coordinator search makes it seem like they could be interviewing people into next week as more candidates become available due to playoff losses.

Then again, the Rams have been done playing since Sunday and it seems much of the Bears search has been for coaches with ties to the Rams.

Robinson was among the Rams coaches who became available to interview after the Lions beat the Rams in the playoffs.

SI.com's Albert Breer on Thursday reported Robinson as a canddiate.

Robinson is entirely inexperienced compared to most of those interviewed. With coordinator, quarterbacks coach, passing game coordinator, running backs coach and wide receiver coach open, it wouldn't be surprising for some of these candidates to show up on the new staff at positions besides coordinator. However, Robinson wouldn't be one since he has passing game coordinator-quarterbacks coach already.

The list of candidates besides Robinson includes Klint Kubiak, Shane Waldron, Liam Coen, Kliff Kingsbury, Thomas Brown, Greg Roman, Greg Olson and Marcus Brady.

Robinson has been in coaching only since 2019. He has been with one team, in one system under Sean McVay with the Rams. He was assistant quarterbacks coach in 2019 and 2021, assistant receivers coach in 2020 and the last two years passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

His experience with the Rams seems the attraction. It wouldn't be totally out of the question for the Bears to seriously consider Robinson because so many of the candidates on their list so far had experience in the Rams offense. Robinson, Waldron, Coen, Brown and Olson all coached for the Rams under McVay at one point.

Robinson was still in the league playing less than a decade ago. He was waived in May of 2014 by the Bengals after a career in which he was with the Patriots, Seahawks, Lions and Bengals after he was a 10th-round pick in 2010 by the Patriots.

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