zn wrote:

Enh. I don’t buy most of this stuff. I see a lot of hyperbole about Fisher. He seems to set some people off.

To me he’s an ordinary story—another good coach whose team didn’t turn the corner and he took the hit.

I really don;t get the hyperbole.

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I don’t get the hatred a lot of fans have for Fisher. Fisher may not have gotten the Rams over the hump but he’s leaving the cupboard pretty full for the next coach. It’s not like he was a complete failure. He turned a historically bad team into one that no other team wanted to face up until a few weeks ago. He desperately tried to build a winner. He failed but he did his best to turn the Rams into a contender. It didn’t work out – ok, so now the Rams are moving on but you would swear by the hatred in many of the posts by fans out there that Fisher intentionally set out to destroy the Rams.

Zooey wrote:

Last week, I said the Rams needed better numbers on sacks and turnovers.

I don’t think I was specific enough.

I mean the Rams need to take away the ball from Seattle, and sack Wilson.

Way to go.

Your vagueness cost Fisher his job.

Welp, I can think of one family that won’t be having a very nice Christmas this year.

Tell ya what, Mr. Not-Obvious, when Fisher’s children ask their mommy why there isn’t any money for presents and why they hear the muffled sounds of their daddy crying into his pillow at night, why don’t you man up and tell them the truth…Santa isn’t coming because you couldn’t be bothered to take an extra couple seconds to be more specific.

Andy Reid? Way to dream big there, Pa.

I wish Jeff Fisher had been more like Chuck Knoll. You know, with his 4 Super Bowl victories in 6 years…

sanbagger wrote:

wv wrote:

What year did you become a ram fan?

1974…the year my family moved back to the states from down under.

Why do those Aussie’s throw shrimp at Barbie?

Actually I didn’t think Spags should have been fired in the first place.

And now he’s a little more seasoned. He’s had time to reflect. Take stock.

He’s ready. I’m ready.

Time for the Spaniard 2.0.

Fassel makes sense. Boras has to run the offense and Williams has to run the defense. Fassel deserves the honor given how well his special teams have played since he’s been with the Rams.

Of course, no way does Fassel remain HC beyond this season, unless the Rams win the remaining 3 games by a combined score of 150 to 0.

I reckon Fassel will return to his special teams duties next season under the new head coach.

The rest of the current coaches will likely be gone.

The Rams completely dominated the game. They exploded for 312 yards whereas the Falcons could barely eek out 282.

Sucks when your team outplays their opponent but still manages to find a way to lose.

Without Quinn the Mob Squad is the Meh Squad.

bnw wrote:

This offense needs Mike Martz.

If they hire Vermiel to be the HC I’d gladly accept Martz as the OC.

The Rams have the best punter and the best DT in the league. Maybe ever.

Well, at least that’s something, right?

I don’t care if he’s back or not. I do want the OCs replaced. I want them to hire Norv Turner. Who knows if Turner even wants the job but that’s what I want.

If Fisher wins out to go 8-8, he’ll be back. Anything less than that makes it unlikely that he’ll be back.

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sanbagger wrote:

wv wrote:

The defense has looked terrible against two of the best offenses. Now they face a third good offense. It aint gonna be pretty.

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I actually thought the D did an admirable job. I know the Pats were a little shorthanded but that’s life.

If the Rams O could have mounted any kind of attack this score would have been a lot closer…even though I realize they called off the dogs in the 4th, I still believe this to be true.

Yeah I was pretty happy with the way the defense played against the Pats sans that 43 yd TD run on 4th and 1. The defense got no help from the offense so they were on the field a lot but they played hard the entire game. They didn’t really wear down.

If the Rams had just a competent offense that would have been a close game.

InvaderRam wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

JackPMiller wrote:

It is not really a new system. It is still a Jeff Fisher offense. All it is, play calling. You just switch OCs, with Fisher’s type of coach, is just being masked. Unless he has an experienced OC like Norv Turner, per say, I’ll say it again, you are just masking it with a Fisher guy, and he is running Fisher’s plays.

It is a new system. How different it is from the previous system I can’t say, but it is new.

I could be wrong but I don’t think Fisher has an offensive system that he uses wherever he goes. He has a style. And regardless if the system in place is based on a WCO, Coryell, Erhardt, etc system, the playcalling and overall strategy will reflect his style – which is to use the run to set up play action.

well one question i have is did they change the run blocking scheme?

i remember all this talk about using the zbs last year. did they switch back to strictly man blocking?

I don’t know, but Rich Gannon noted what he thought were problems with the blocking scheme when reviewing film in preparation for the Rams game that he did the color commentary for this season. Can’t recall which game it was. He said too often the scheme left defenders unblocked who would then disrupt the play. I don’t know how much stock to put in that though…

• This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by nittany ram.

JackPMiller wrote:

It is not really a new system. It is still a Jeff Fisher offense. All it is, play calling. You just switch OCs, with Fisher’s type of coach, is just being masked. Unless he has an experienced OC like Norv Turner, per say, I’ll say it again, you are just masking it with a Fisher guy, and he is running Fisher’s plays.

It is a new system. How different it is from the previous system I can’t say, but it is new.

I could be wrong but I don’t think Fisher has an offensive system that he uses wherever he goes. He has a style. And regardless if the system in place is based on a WCO, Coryell, Erhardt, etc system, the playcalling and overall strategy will reflect his style – which is to use the run to set up play action.