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LMU93
That's a fair statement. Frankly I think most of us forget what it's like to cheer on a winning team. I know perspectives get altered and after a while the hope of 9-7 starts to look exciting.
Maybe I'm in the small minority but my opinion on Fisher still isn't fully formed. Maybe it should be. I still respect and thank the guy for taking over the biggest dumpster fire in the league in years and making them competitive. My concern with Fisher is while it's genuinely admirable to take a perennial 1-3 win team and make them a 7 win team that's in most every game they play their ceiling with him just might be 9-7. Frankly if they're not 7-4 or 8-3 in six weeks given their schedule then I'll see them as truly stuck in being that 18th or 19th 'best' team in the league under Fisher they've been since 2012.
Someone also posted in this thread that their three wins are by only 15 points and came down to the final plays. Well, my response to that is that's the NFL. That is what 85% of the games in this league are. The Rams were SO bad from 2007-2011 that they rarely even had losses come down to late in the game. Their doors were blown off weekly... So I don't discount those 3 wins at all. But yes, 3-2 isn't enough.
My criticism of Fisher isn't his philosophy or style or player development. It's the lack of discipline that results in being one of the league's most penalized team every year (he doesn't care, that I'm convinced of) and things like dropped passes. He trades off aggression for details. And that I think is a big part of why they're 30-39-1 under him.
I've made my stand known and one reason I have been shying away from Fisher wars is because I keep saying the same things.
They lost 2 qbs in as many years, had to start #2s, and at the same time saw a line they built fall apart and have to be rebuilt. I see going 7-9 under those conditions as a sign of at least decent coaching.
And if I recall, although many teams have moved, only one other has ever been winning after 5 games in the wake of a move.
So I assume when things stabilize---which includes not having to find a qb and an OL at the same time---they will do well consistently.
I;ve heard all the arguments against all that and none of them has given me pause.
But then again there is no such thing as a Fisher diehard so if for whatever reason they move on, as long as they do at least as well under whatever conditions they have, I will be fine.
And btw this is a majority anti-Fisher board. The idea that someone would leave this board because there's too much pro-Fisher posting for their taste? (????) I just had to laugh at that.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/15/2016 05:21PM by zn.