Former Rams coach Jeff Fisher still doesn’t get it

Former head coach Jeff Fisher is looking for a little credit for the success of Sean McVay and the 2017 Los Angeles Rams. Does anyone besides him believe he deserves it?

Former Los Angeles Rams head coach Jeff Fisher has been drinking his Kool-Aid again, and it’s kind of dissapointing.

The fired coach was making the rounds with WGFX trying to sell himself to anyone who will listen that the success in LA is happening, in effect, with his roster.

"“I’m a huge fan of the Ram players,” he said. “They’re basically—I don’t want to say my players, but I had a lot to do with that roster. Left them in pretty good shape. And Sean [McVay], as he’s proven in this very short period of time, is an outstanding young coach. And he’s got the offense rolling, which they needed.”"

It’s sad really.

Anyone who saw that team, especially the 2016 edition that went 4-12, yes FOUR AND TWELVE, will recall quite vividly what a train wreck the Rams had not just become, but absolutely were. Yes, he does deserve credit for being part of the decision-making that made the trade to bring Jared Goff to LA via the 2016 NFL Draft, but he also deserves the lion’s share of the responsibility for that 4-12 record and Goff’s 0-7 professional debut.

That doesn’t seem to get much mention as he shills for work as a head coach in 2018.

Worse, former assistant Dave McGinnis has also offered some commentary to pimp his former boss:

"“First of all, Jeff Fisher and I, we built this roster, you know what I’m saying? So I know these guys very, very well.”"

This is 50 Shades of Stupid on many levels.

Fisher did have top notch defenses and special teams, especially the last few season and in his first when the team relocated to Los Angeles for the 2016 season. In all fairness, he also deserves a lot of credit for overseeing the Herculean task of getting the team focused and off to a 3-1 start after the move.

But that’s where it ends.

The Rams played bad football in 2016, and when watching this team after he’d been fired, one could reasonably wonder how in the world they ever one a single game much less four.

For him to imply he has some hand in the 10-4 success the Los Angeles Rams and their fans currently enjoy is disingenuous and self serving. One can only roll their eyes at Fisher and wonder what on earth such words serve in his quest for employment as a head coach in the National Football League.

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I can only hope any team GM who’d consider such a hire will look at what was and is now the Rams, and do the math.

The conclusion would not be a complicated one.

Former head coach Jeff Fisher is looking for a little credit for the success of Sean McVay and the 2017 Los Angeles Rams. Does anyone besides him believe he deserves it?

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