LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Rams agreed to hire longtime NFL coach Wade Phillips to be their defensive coordinator on Thursday night, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Phillips, 69, will work under the 30-year-old Sean McVay, who was brought in earlier on Thursday to serve as the youngest head coach in NFL history. Phillips takes on the role vacated by Gregg Williams, who left to become defensive coordinator of the Cleveland Browns last week.
Phillips got his first NFL coaching job in 1976, 10 years before McVay was born.
Since then, he has spent 25 seasons as a defensive coordinator with seven different teams.