He clearly wasn't any good at it, though.
And what I did was hardly anything "beneath me". I simply am not caving to Joe Barksdale being an example of a well developed, solid-good Oline player. He's marginal at best. It just says how bad San Diego is on the Oline that he's still starting. And besides, if Barksdale is the best Boudreau can do in 5 years, then that alone proves my point.
I'm pointing out that you can go back and pull up all the stats, and try to conflate them, or re-order them, or try to get them to tell a different story, all you want. Nothing matters but the bottom line. Stats don't change the outcomes. And the outcome is: the Rams are a historically bad offense for 5 years, and they have one of worst W-L records over the past 5 years. And in 5 years Fisher couldn't even get to 8-8.
Defending Bouds or Fisher is like a teacher saying maybe most of his students fail, but hey, he has a PhD. And if he has an education PhD., then clearly 5 straight years of failing students can't possibly be him.....its the students.
Some guys live off of past reputations far too long. Some guys have a reputation that is far about reality.
If the Oline is the most basic thing that makes an oline go; and if the game is winning and performing well on each unit, then the Rams have failed miserably under Fisher and his crew and all the rest of the stats amount to nothing but fantasy football fodder.
I've not resorted to personal name calling on Fisher. Or suggesting that he's sub-human because he failed at football coaching. All of my posts re: Fisher are that he is a lifetime C- Head Coach. And he wasn't quite that good with the Rams.....more like a D or D+. And no amount of internal stats changes that. He simply wasn't very good at his job, and neither was Bouds.
What either did 8 and 10 years ago has no bearing on it.