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and I'll always be thankful to him for that...but he couldn't take the next step and we moved on...but up until Fisher we had 5 wins in 4 seasons or somethin crazy!!! Fisher brought us out of the cellar and got us playin hard against some opponents Seahawks especially.
Anyway, Fisher got us to 7-9 and moved us back to LA....Fisher was a good stepping stone of quality. imo
But OFFENSE was always what was needed to bring us back to life...and I suspect the Rams will always have an offensive-minded HC for the next 20yrs with McVay or anyone else. LA wants excitement/entertaining football...not a Rams vs Pats SB snooze fest...That SB was just sooooo hard to watch...I didn't mind the losing...it was the way we lost!!! That SB was one of the worst games/PR thing for this team that coulda happened the last few years - (besides the uniform in limbo mis-branding thing).
Though consider this. Out of the 80 games with Fisher as coach, how many did they start with BOTH (1) a starting caliber qb (which to me excludes both Foles and Keenum) AND (2) a relatively healthy OL.
Bradford played 23 games, but then 8 of those (first half of 2012) is a circus of OL injuries. So that leaves just 15.
No other games, do they meet the definition for both things (qb, OL) being on the field at the same time.
In the other 65, they went 24-41. Which is 37%. Even then, in those 65 games when they lacked either the qb or the OL or both, that 37%---them at their worst---is still better than the 6 year stretch from 2006-2011, when they won 24% of their games.
McVay is the best Rams coach since Vermeil and Vermeil the best since I starting following them. Fisher isn't in Vermeil's class, or McVay's. But if people dump on him so badly while forgetting the injuries issue (qb and OL), it is because they have forgotten about 1990-98 and 2006-2011. Those years combined the winning percentage was 26.5%.
Fisher had both the qb and OL for 15 of their first 23 games, and basically went 50% in those 15 games--not good yet, still building, but competitive. But that's after the Rams went 18.75% in the previous 5 seasons (which were also injury dominated).
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/03/2019 07:02AM by zn.
