Time to let former Rams head coach Jeff Fisher out of the penalty box

Former Los Angeles Rams head coach Jeff Fisher may be headed to the broadcast booth, and that’s a good thing for the NFL lifer.

Reports are that former Los Angeles Rams head coach Jeff Fisher may be in an NFL broadcast booth near you this fall.

Good, bad?

Don’t fret much Rams fans, he can only now opine from the safe distance of a broadcast window and not from the sidelines with a headset, so breath deep.

Fisher, who played four season, was an assistant coach for nine,  and then a head coach for 22 years, is best known for remarkably average results.

The 60 year old former head coach for both St. Louis and the Los Angeles Rams, has the most regular season losses, 165, which is in a dead heat with Dan Reeves.

After some insufferable lobbying for a job as a head coach last fall, Fisher finally looks to be only the former, who can offer some pretty good insight from an analysts perspective.

22 years should do that.

But I suggest for fans, both in LA and St. Louis, that it’s time to let Fisher out of the penalty box. Yes, he was a frighteningly poor to average coach. A guy who  had the audacity to suggest that some of the success in 2017 has his fingerprints on it.

Oye.

Fisher is that guy who graduated from high school a long time ago, but who keeps showing up at the after game party, thinking he’s still relevant.

Someone needs to get in his ear and tell him he’s not. In a subtle way, the gig at Fox may be that voice.

Rams fans need to let it go. Heck, I need to let it go, and I’ve been very critical of the guy who couldn’t get that his best days, whenever they may have been, are behind him.

Happens.

I wouldn’t mind hearing him on a Rams game, or any other he may wind up calling. At the very least, a lifetime working that grind should yield a few good stories and some insight.

He’s got some legitimate institutional memory.

It’s time to let Jeff Fisher out of the doghouse he helped build. Despite him, LA is now in prime position to do some great things. While he was a master of .500, he was also present at the drafts that brought Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald, Offensive Player of the Year Todd Gurley, and quarterback Jared Goff.

In an odd twist of fate, you could also say that the timing of his firing helped bring Sean McVay to the Rams.

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That’s a likely stretch.

All that said, Fisher should get a second chance in a game he clearly loves, despite not always being very good at coaching it.

After all, second chances is what the NFL does best.