I just had to address this. Not in an angry way, but to address each point. I do appreciate Angry Ram engaging because this is contentious. We all ultimately just want our team to be a good team. Anyway...
1. Because again, it's at most, a 2 year deal. The team can opt out after next season.
Every minute Fisher coaches this team is wasted. He's simply a bad coach. Williams put together the D and he's had 2 solid ST coordinators iirc. By every metric that HCs are measured, he's just...bad. Not even mediocre...bad. And any measure he seems okay aren't HC measures, but FO jobs that he's taken on. If he wants to be Team President, fine, but drafting well on D with Snead still doesn't make him a good HC that can put together solid game plans, manage the game clock, manage challenges, personnel packages, etc.
2. They have a good thing going on defense.
Yeah, with this extension that window is about to close. If Fisher isn't fired at the end of the year, AD won't resign. I'll bet all my ROD bucks on that. And that will END the "good thing going on defense". AD is a hardcore winner who wants to win at everything...even ping pong. I'm like that so I understand.
3. Getting another coach after taking Jared Goff will stunt his development.
Two things. Firstly, Goff hasn't hardly been developed. Look at his tape in college and look at him now. Does he LOOK much different? Nope. He hasn't been developed, not in any real way. What they're doing is inculcating him into a disastrously bad offense which is ridiculously convoluted. THAT takes time. But Boras isn't likely to be retained which means that Goff will have another OC next year. And then Fisher will be finally fired and Goff for the third year in a row will have a new OC with the new coach. Let's just call it the "Bradfording" of Goff. THAT, my friend, is how to stunt his development. The way to get him developed is to fire Fisher and get an Offensive staff in immediately that actually knows how to develop a QB properly. Don't wait. Do it now.
4. Going off #3 and #4, changing coaches means new assistants, which means new schemes, which means a total reset. I don't think this team is talent depleted enough to warrant that.
Actually, the installation of a functioning offense would yield immediate results and while the EP offense takes usually 2 years to really fully install, each week, the players would be more and more on the same page. The various Coryell variants can be installed even faster. I'm partial to the EP variants, but either if they're coherent and functional would be an immediate upgrade and immediately yield significant results. Why? Because players wouldn't be so dang lost. The offense would make sense. And I disagree that this team isn't talented enough to withstand a reset. This team is MORE talented than the 9ers team when Harbaugh came in and they went from a middling, undisciplined disaster under a "player-friendly, defensive minded HC" in Singletary to 3 straight NFC Championship games. The 9ers are a pretty recent example that teams like ours simply NEED a change in leadership and scheme and those can lead to immediate and massive amounts of success.
5. I like Jeff Fisher's ability to hold the team together during tough times.
I dunno what that means. I mean players aren't at each other's throats, but imagine the chemistry if this team were winning...
6. I don't think Stan is an "all-in" owner like Bidwell, so the next best thing is to have a pure football guy like Jeff Fisher.
Stan is not an "all-in owner. However, the last thing Fisher is is a pure football guy. He's as political as they come. That's how he's different from a guy like Mike Singletary, for example. But Fisher being such a part of the NFL power structure and Competition Committee and whatnot is anything, but pure. Mike Tomlin and Bill Belichick are pure football guys. All football all the time. So, I'm sorry, but that characterization is just not true and it's not a matter of opinion.
7. I'm only in favor of replacing coaches if they can't get their team to compete weekly and/or you can visually see on the player's they don't appreciate the coaches.
Wait. Well, you're certainly entitled to your opinion, but this team played like hell for Spags at the end. They balled out. They didn't win, but you could see that they fought like hell. You saying Spags shouldn't have been fired because he didn't lose the team and they competed? That's such a low bar. I mean you're totally entitled to have that opinion, but if that's your take, you're going to be talking Apples v Oranges with most folks because most folks are going to expect HCs to WIN, not just compete. But, I respect if that's where you're coming from. I will disagree with it with gusto, but I respect your opinion.
8. I live in Houston now, and I'm in favor of them canning Bill O'Brien. His demeanor, attitude (he's an ass), even not paying attention to the games, I can see all that even by watching on tv. And the results on the field reflect that. Jeff Fisher is the polar opposite of that. The problems that the Rams have can be fixed, but it's up to both coaches AND players to do it.
I can't speak intelligently about the situation in Houston. I can say that with respect to the Rams, some of the issues with the Rams cannot be "fixed". The Rams offense cannot be "fixed". This offense is broken and needs to be replaced. Period. It will never...infinity...never be successful...not with Brady at QB. Never be successful...because it's structurally and schematically deficient. I said this PRIOR TO THE PRESEASON. And we've seen in our few wins and our many losses that our offense is the worst in the NFL by quite a lot for the reasons I articulated before we took a snap.
