After a tumultuous 2016 season in Los Angeles that finished with him as interim head coach, John Fassel could have easily looked elsewhere for 2017. Instead, he's said, there wasn’t any other place he wanted to be.
Fassel and new head coach Sean McVay reportedly had a quick and easy discussion that kept the special teams coordinator around for what will be his sixth season with the Rams.
“He said he wants to keep me around — and that’s all I needed to know,” Fassel told the Los Angeles Times in January. “I said, ‘I want to be here, so I appreciate it.