Eric Dickerson Lobbying For Rams To Hire Harbaugh
By: Will Burchfield
@burchie_kid
Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson has a plan to fix his former team, the 4-9 Los Angeles Rams.
Step 1 is complete, with the firing of Jeff Fisher.
Step 2 begins with his replacement.
"We need to have a coach that comes in and makes change, I mean that literally makes a splash," Dickerson told NFL Network. "Just like they did when they drafted Jared Goff - make a big change and make a statement, then, that this is what we are.
"Who is that coach? I don't know. I mean people ask me, I think Jim Harbaugh is a guy that could really possibly turn this program around. I've seen what he's done."
Harbaugh's name has been bandied about in the search for the Rams' next head coach, perhaps most visibly on the Colin Cowherd Show on FS1. Last month, he was named by the NFL's Career Development Advisory Panel as one of six recommended replacements for potential head-coaching vacancies around the league.
To Dickerson's point, Harbaugh has shown a knack for reviving struggling teams and grooming young quarterbacks - two conditions that apply to the Rams, who have yet to win a game with Goff under center.
"At Stanford, they we're 1-11 (the season before Harbaugh arrived). He turned that football program around," Dickerson said. "He turned Andrew Luck into a No. 1 draft pick. He turned the 49ers around from 7-9 to 13-3, turned Alex Smith's career around when most people thought he was done. He helped (Colin) Kaepernick (become) a top quarterback. He turned Michigan around.
"So that's what I always go back (to). What is your body of work? And he has a lot of body of work."
"I'm all about winners," Dickerson added later. "And I just watch Jim - I don't even know Jim. I never played with him, never played with Jim Harbaugh at all. I've just seen what he's done everywhere he goes and that's what it comes down to. It's all about winning."