Robinson Ponders Future, Won’t Rule Out TV

On the Day After, John Robinson began talking about his Life After.

One day after his long-expected resignation from the team he has coached for nine years, Robinson answered his first questions about the subject, saying that taking a job in television is “a possibility” but emphasizing that he wants to take time to organize his thoughts before committing to anything.

“I am trying my best not to make some decision,” Robinson said Thursday. “I think there’s a rebound effect in this.

“I think what I need to do is decide what I want to do. I would like to believe I have some time to do that.”

Once he finishes the season with the Rams Sunday night in Seattle, Robinson said there are no final meetings planned with the players.

“We didn’t do a very good job of coaching this year,” said Robinson, 56. “I think we tried to do it, but things got . . . for whatever reasons, we didn’t.

“I would like to reflect on that, reflect on the things that allowed us to be as successful as we’ve been earlier here.

“When you analyze a situation, there are some reasons for success and for failure, and certainly the Rams themselves have that job to do. They have to sit down and say what was right and what was wrong and what we do as an organization.”

Robinson announced his resignation Wednesday evening alone, and no Ram front-office official has had a comment about the move. Robinson on Thursday said he was “just trying to be a little humorous” when he opened and closed his remarks Wednesday pointing out the absence and silence of the Rams’ brass.

“That’s the way of it here, has always been,” Robinson said. “I mean, that’s been my job, from the first day I started until now. That was just the job description.

“If you say you’re the head coach of the Rams, you do all the talking for everyone.”

Robinson said he made his statement when he did in order to lift some of the anxiety off the shoulders of his players in time for a solid effort against the Seahawks, and said he released some of his own building tensions.

“Once you announce it, then you don’t have the hovering created by the anticipation. Now it’s done, we’re through it, let’s go on to think about the other things.”

He said as he approaches his final game as Ram coach, he isn’t experiencing much sadness.

“I felt sadness every time we walked off the field on Sundays,” Robinson said. “I mean, that’s when you feel the sadness, saying, ‘What the hell, we’re not doing it and we’re just not making progress at all.’ That’s the sadness.

“I think change is not sad. Losing is sad. But change is not.”