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“The first four years dont count.”
Ya know. There are places in this world,
where if ya said that, you’d be defenestrated. Like, totally.
Probably decorticated, first.
Are you serious, btw? The first four years dont count?
I count’em myself. If Fisher’s team loses for the fifth straight year,
I’m marching on the castle.
Course I’ve never really felt any warmth for Fisher. I just dont cotton to him as a person.
Bring back DV.
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I can’t say I’m a fan of Fisher, but my patience has not yet run out. I guess I tend to look at things with two different hats from time-to-time. There is my Fan Hat, and my Management Hat. And I mostly have thought about Fisher with my Management Hat on i.e. what would I do if I was Stan, and the answer so far has been exactly what has happened i.e. nothing.
I told anyone who would listen the past couple of years that there was no way Fisher would be fired before the move to L.A., and that he would see the end of his 5-year deal. That was MH thinking. Fisher’s term started with a roster arguably worse than an expansion team roster, and he was hired in part because of his experience moving with the Titans. There just was no way he was going to be terminated. I said that THIS YEAR would be the first year he would feel his seat warm up if the team underperformed. So far, I am just a perfect 10 in calling all that.
My Fan Hat thinking is that Fisher was fairly impressive with the Titans. That was a good, hard-nosed football team that, imo, actually over-achieved. At least in those years where they intersected the GSOT. So I was reasonably open to his devilship when he was hired, and thought he might bring the same kind of toughness to the Rams. Well, he sort of has. Though I now, with my FH, am wondering if he is falling short of hopes. I went into LAST season with Wild Card hopes. Of course, Foles melted down, and etc. But even so, the team ought to have done better, imo. But brand new, young OL, melted down QB, late arriving rookie RB…ambiguous.
Well, as this season has taken a turn for the worse, it kind of tilts last season into a darker setting. According to my Fan Hat. Sand is depreciably slipping through the hourglass now. And I am sick to death of 7-9. Sick of it.
Back to the present and my MH. The QB who may well put the team over the top is not yet out of his berth. I wouldn’t screw with that. I would re-sign Fisher through the remainder of the Memorial Coliseum tenure. What I really don’t want to do is let the guy, and his staff go, and bring in another coach and system just as my golden boy is about ready to play, and make him learn a new system. Fuck that. No. That is just bad, bad timing for a system change when they just spent all that capital on the guy who is supposed to put them into the tournament. Fisher gets two more years from me in my MH, and I predict that is what Stan will do.
So as a fan, I am kind of getting sick of Fisher. As a matter of practical strategy for team development, I give him two more years (unless the wheels fall off and he loses the team, and they go 3 – 13, or something unforeseen like that).
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