The problem with projecting future moves based on past relationships has one major flaw. There’s a chance that the player wants nothing to do with the man who once coached him, or vice versa.
And so the fact that former Rams quarterback Marc Bulger flourished under former Rams coach Scott Linehan doesn’t mean that Bulger will land in Motown as a backup to Matt Stafford. Our pal Howard Balzer of the St. Louis Press-Democrat advises that Bulger doesn’t have warm and fuzzy memories of Linehan.
Said Balzer of Bulger, “Is despise too harsh a word for how he feels about Linehan?”