{"id":438173,"date":"2026-01-30T04:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438173\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:29:07","slug":"rams-hire-bubba-ventrone-as-their-special-teams-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438173\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams hire Bubba Ventrone as their special teams coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rams have hired Bubba Ventrone as their special teams coordinator, Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Rams fired special teams coordinator Chase Blackburn last month after a series of blunders by the unit in a 38-37 overtime loss to the Seahawks. Assistant special teams coach Ben Kotwica finished the season as the interim coordinator, but the Rams muffed a punt in the NFC Championship Game. <\/p>\n<p>The Steelers also requested to interview Ventrone.<\/p>\n<p>Ventrone was the assistant head coach and special teams coordinator for three seasons on Cleveland\u2019s staff. He has also coached for the Colts and Patriots since concluding a playing career that saw him spend time with the 49ers, Browns and Patriots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rams have hired Bubba Ventrone as their special teams coordinator, Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-438173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}