Former Green Bay Packers associate head coach Winston Moss will be named the head coach and general manager of Los Angeles’ XFL team today, reports from the L.A. Times said.

Moss was the Packers’ linebackers coach the last 13 seasons but was fired in December after the team parted ways with head coach Mike McCarthy. Moss, who played linebacker for the Los Angeles Raiders in the 1990s, joined the Packers along with the McCarthy in 2006 after being an assistant with the New Orleans Saints from 2000 to 2005.

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Moss’ dismissal came after he sent a tweet concerning McCarthy’s firing that suggested Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers might have played a role in the move and the team’s 6-9-1 season.

“Ponder this,” Moss tweeted. “What Championship teams have are great leadership! Period! It’s not the offensive guru trend, it’s not the safe trend. Find somebody that is going to hold #12 and everybody in this building to a #LombardiStandard! Period! #losingsucks!”

Moss interviewed for several NFL head coaching jobs and was a finalist to be the head coach of the Detroit Lions before the team went with Matt Patricia in 2018.

The 53-year-old Moss is a Miami native who played college football for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed to Miami’s first football national championship in 1983. Moss was inducted into the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.

The yet-to-be-named XFL team in Los Angeles will begin play Feb. 8, 2020, and will hold its home games at Dignity Health Sports Park. The Chargers will play their final season there this year before moving into the new stadium in Inglewood next year.

Winston Moss is getting another chance to coach the game he loves and hopefully it will be a huge success.