In 2009, the St. Louis Rams hired Steve Spagnuolo to be the new head of one of the worst teams in the NFL, then and shortly thereafter added a relatively young executive to the front office named Kevin Demoff. For the previous four seasons, Demoff had been with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a connection that would eventually come back around to help the Rams win a Super Bowl, but first the organization had to go through some of the worst seasons in franchise history.
Spagnuolo and Demoff would go through it together for three years, but only Demoff survived to see 2012 and beyond.