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I am fine with keeping Fisher or replacing him. That is a definite hard core stance and I won’t change.
AgamemnonI could be confused — are we talking hair extension ?
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Coach Fishair.
Well, here is the next question: Who do you replace Fisher with?
Jeff Fisher has 22 years of head coaching experience. He has taken a team to a Super Bowl. He has won 177 NFL games including playoffs. So, who have you got who is going to do better?
People mostly assume that the next person will automatically have all of Fisher’s positive attributes and fix all of the negatives. Or just want change for change’s sake. Well, it would be good if you are advocating a new coach to hear your plan for succession.
And let’s not have the same tired retreads like Jimmy Johnson and Bill Cower. Those guys are done. There are not a bunch of Super Bowl winning coaches just sitting on the sidewalk just waiting for the Rams to call. If the you think the hot new assistant coach is the proper path, just harken back to Scott Linehan and Steve Spagnuolu for the last time the Rams tried that avenue. So yes, Fisher and Snead have taken the long path but they have built a team that can beat anyone in the league right now and they are the youngest team in the league. They will get better. The best approach is to maintain continuity and keep the train on the path, IMHO.
Isiah 58“Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.” - Homer Simpson
fwiw, I agree with you guys.
Of course you are right. Right now, the Rams are in the middle of the bell curve. I’m just saying that a coaching chance doesn’t automatically shift them to the right.
AgamemnonFisher has been here for 5 years, it has not worked.
And how many of those years did he have both a starting caliber qb and a relatively healthy OL?
Actually it’s games not years. And I can count them. If you count Foles 1st 4 games as a starting caliber qb (and not a meltdown qb destined to be benched and cut) then it’s exactly 19 out of 64 games.
I usually get the “all teams have injuries” mantra at this point, but actually, it’s not true that all teams cope with having to start back-up qbs AND having to repair damaged OLs at the same time.
I always ask, can you think of any teams that thrived under those conditions? No one has ever given an answer that stood up. So you either factor that in or you don’t. I always will.
And this year’s story is yet to be written.
See this is why I don’t have much in the way of Fisher Wars energy. I just basically end up repeating myself.
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Fisher has been here for 5 years, it has not worked.
And how many of those years did he have both a starting caliber qb and a relatively healthy OL?
Actually it’s games not years. And I can count them. If you count Foles 1st 4 games as a starting caliber qb (and not a meltdown qb destined to be benched and cut) then it’s exactly 19 out of 64 games.
I usually get the “all teams have injuries” mantra at this point, but actually, it’s not true that all teams cope with having to start back-up qbs AND having to repair damaged OLs at the same time.
I always ask, can you think of any teams that thrived under those conditions? No one has ever given an answer that stood up. So you either factor that in or you don’t. I always will.
And this year’s story is yet to be written.
See this is why I don’t have much in the way of Fisher Wars energy. I just basically end up repeating myself.
…It is called coaching. If you have good coaches, you can overcome that stuff. Coaches know how to figure these things out, and Fisher has not. Belechick does, Tomlin does, Kubiak does, so why can’t Fisher.
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