Source: Wade Phillips agrees to be Rams' defensive coordinator
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Rams agreed to hire longtime NFL coach Wade Phillips to be their defensive coordinator Thursday night, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Phillips, 69, will work under Sean McVay, who was brought in earlier Thursday to be the team's head coach. At 30, McVay is the youngest NFL head coach in the Super Bowl era.
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 teams. He also was head coach of the Denver Broncos (1993-94), Buffalo Bills (1998-2000) and Dallas Cowboys (2007-10), and he served as interim coach for the New Orleans Saints (1985), Atlanta Falcons (2003) and Houston Texans (2013).
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