how lucky is Jeff Fisher

* first, he happens to be on the market just when there’s a couple of viable jobs…well there are always jobs, but one of those jobs is with an owner who likes to hire veteran coaches, give them long contracts, let them run things the way they want, and also opens his pocket books beyond the cap to build a winner. (That includes hiring staff and dishing out for UDFAs like Hekker.)

* that team has the 2nd pick in the draft in a year when there are 2 hot, sought-after qbs–so the pick is tradeable

* the team a;ready has a core of young, undeveloped talent from the previous regime, including a qb, 2 DEs, a smart always healthy MLB, one long-term OL player, and a few others. One of those players, Quinn, has the potential to be the best pass-rushing DE in the league, and for a long time. This is for a defense-minded coach who would have traded a whole draft away to get someone like that. And there he was, already there.

* also on the market the same time are some golden position coaches who have big personalities so tend not to stick around long–and the owner breaks budget (that was directly said by Demoff btw) to hire them. Most teams only have one guy like that.

* after trading down a little in 2012, Jacksonville jumps ahead of him and grabs the receiver he covets. That receiver then gets in so much trouble there’s talk of a more than one season suspension. This is more than a bullet dodged. It’s like the bullet in the 1st X-men film that stops and spins right in front of the forehead of some poor policeman, held by mutant magnetic powers, and then falls to the ground.

* Brockers falls. Ogletree falls. Donald falls. Washington falls apart and its 2014 pick is the 2nd pick.

* Greg Wms is suspended, then comes back as a very active contributing consultant in Tennessee, and does well. Then gets fired as the Titans change coaches. So by the time Wms comes to the Rams the controversy is way behind him, he has rehabilitated himself in the eyes of the league and the sports media, and he’s ready to settle down, remain a coordinator, and not move again. Meanwhile there’s a job in the first place because Rob Ryan walked out on the Rams after agreeing in principle to take the spot. Wms. is going to be better than Ryan with this defensive personnel. Had Ryan stayed–no Wms.

* mixed luck? Is in the toughest division in football. The good side of that? If they can take the west (and sooner or later they WILL) then they can beat anyone in the NFL. The entire team down to the longsnapper knows that they cannot be complacent in this division. So would you rather be IN the west or have to face a west team when you win a different division?