I mean, what do I care?

As far as I’m concerned, if Fisher can’t turn it around this year (playoff contention in Week 17, at least), you have to look at a coaching change. Problem is, the owner is only looking at a change in locations. Kroenke isn’t invested much in the football “team” right now as his football “franchise.” He’s not going to do anything rash — you know, other than picking up his team and heading to the coast.

So, no matter what the Rams do, you can bet that Fisher will be back next year, doing the same things. Maybe by then he’ll have enough talent and the players will be mature enough to make a move in the NFC West. But, I just don’t see that happening this year, not after the last two losses and the youth on this O-line.

Every year, excuses.

rfl wrote:

Can you honestly say you maintain much real investment in this team’s endless succession of losing football?

Well yes speaking honestly for myself, I can say that. To me, the 90s were worse. This time, what I see is a team that is marching toward the light, but circumstantial stuff keeps holding it back.

For example, my view is that when this team had these 3 things it did well. 1. A starting caliber qb. Not even a great one. 2. A decently effective OL not held back by either multiple simultaneous injuries or massive inexperience. 3. A running threat.

The problem is, it has only has all 3 things in 11 of the last 51 games. (Last 8 games of 2012, games 5-7 of 2013). In those 11 games they went 7-3-1, and that includes 6 games against top 10 defenses.

So I just assume that when they have all 3 things they will do well. What happens in the meanwhile is that I roll with the losses and enjoy the victories—but not just enjoy them as stand alone things…I also view them as revealing what the team can be when it settles down.

That means (for me anyway) there’s something to root for. This isn’t 96. There’s something special brewing under the stormy surface. That’s just how I see it.

In terms of Fisher, I just don’t blame him as much as you do; but at the same time, I figure, this team has so much that if they move on to another coach, then that’s fine. Any good coach is going to have to be patient with this bunch until they cohere, and will benefit greatly when they do.

Coaching, to me, though, is another, longer, different issue. I just responded here to the “are you invested issue,” though even the way I describe the ISSUE is different.

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But IF WE HAVE THE TALENT … then that makes the continuing failure even more damning of the coaching staff.

I don’t agree, though, for this reason. New offense. The way I see it, they had a viable OL and a starting qb in 2013. I think they would have turned the corner in 2014, but the combination of injury problems on the OL and losing the qb meant that came up short. On top of it Schott left. That’s a triple whammy. So with a new coordinator, new QB, and new OL, essentially (the way I see it) they re-started the clock. They hit re-set. One such change wouldn’t lead to the the “re-set problem” but 3 can’t help but do that, no matter who the coach is. At a minimum, I would say that they can’t be judged by the 1st 3 games.

I don’t think any of that is coaching.

My bet is that we see the fruits of all this change in the 2nd season after the bye.

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