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The Early and Late Games - Week 4
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https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2018/...lcons-jeff-fisher-broadcasting-baker-mayfield
By Rodger Sherman
Loser: Jeff Fisher
To be fair, every week is an embarrassment for Fisher. Fisher was coach of the Rams just two years ago, and he did an awful job: Fisher was fired as the Rams finished 4-12 and everybody assumed Jared Goff was an all-time draft bust. Now the Rams are Super Bowl favorites and Goff looks like one of the league’s best quarterbacks, making Fisher a retroactive fool. I spend a lot of time thinking about how much happier I would be in general if the Patriots had hired Jeff Fisher once upon a time.
But this week, Fisher made a mistake. Instead of just hanging out in whatever house he bought with the millions upon millions of dollars he made coaching bad-to-mediocre football teams, he decided to try his hand at a new job.
At first, I didn’t know that Fisher was the guy calling Sunday’s game between the Jets and Jaguars. I just assumed the regular color commentator had been struck by a tranquilizer dart just before kickoff. I wasn’t the only one bewildered by the guy calling a football game who didn’t seem to think football was particularly interesting.
View: https://twitter.com/FO_ScottKacsmar/status/1046454606082060288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1046454606082060288&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theringer.com%2Fnfl%2F2018%2F10%2F1%2F17922494%2Fwinners-losers-week-4-atlanta-falcons-jeff-fisher-broadcasting-baker-mayfield
View: https://twitter.com/JuMosq/status/1046460313896288256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1046460313896288256&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theringer.com%2Fnfl%2F2018%2F10%2F1%2F17922494%2Fwinners-losers-week-4-atlanta-falcons-jeff-fisher-broadcasting-baker-mayfield
View: https://twitter.com/OllieConnolly/status/1046455131217317888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1046455131217317888&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theringer.com%2Fnfl%2F2018%2F10%2F1%2F17922494%2Fwinners-losers-week-4-atlanta-falcons-jeff-fisher-broadcasting-baker-mayfield
Soon, I learned that the announcer was none other than the Seven-and-Nine Sensei himself. Sure enough, the guy who made football boring as a coach could also make football boring as an announcer. But even funnier was some of the stuff Fisher said. It seemed as if the only things that could excite him were poor play and bad decision-making.
View: https://twitter.com/PJKinsella19/status/1046456069952868357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1046456069952868357&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theringer.com%2Fnfl%2F2018%2F10%2F1%2F17922494%2Fwinners-losers-week-4-atlanta-falcons-jeff-fisher-broadcasting-baker-mayfield
Sadly, this was probably Fisher’s last turn in the booth—Sunday’s game was the only one he was scheduled to call, and he was so outrageously bad at the gig that I can’t imagine them giving him any further games. Then again, I thought the same thing about his coaching career, and he got to do that for 22 years.
By Rodger Sherman
Loser: Jeff Fisher
To be fair, every week is an embarrassment for Fisher. Fisher was coach of the Rams just two years ago, and he did an awful job: Fisher was fired as the Rams finished 4-12 and everybody assumed Jared Goff was an all-time draft bust. Now the Rams are Super Bowl favorites and Goff looks like one of the league’s best quarterbacks, making Fisher a retroactive fool. I spend a lot of time thinking about how much happier I would be in general if the Patriots had hired Jeff Fisher once upon a time.
But this week, Fisher made a mistake. Instead of just hanging out in whatever house he bought with the millions upon millions of dollars he made coaching bad-to-mediocre football teams, he decided to try his hand at a new job.
At first, I didn’t know that Fisher was the guy calling Sunday’s game between the Jets and Jaguars. I just assumed the regular color commentator had been struck by a tranquilizer dart just before kickoff. I wasn’t the only one bewildered by the guy calling a football game who didn’t seem to think football was particularly interesting.
View: https://twitter.com/FO_ScottKacsmar/status/1046454606082060288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1046454606082060288&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theringer.com%2Fnfl%2F2018%2F10%2F1%2F17922494%2Fwinners-losers-week-4-atlanta-falcons-jeff-fisher-broadcasting-baker-mayfield
View: https://twitter.com/JuMosq/status/1046460313896288256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1046460313896288256&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theringer.com%2Fnfl%2F2018%2F10%2F1%2F17922494%2Fwinners-losers-week-4-atlanta-falcons-jeff-fisher-broadcasting-baker-mayfield
View: https://twitter.com/OllieConnolly/status/1046455131217317888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1046455131217317888&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theringer.com%2Fnfl%2F2018%2F10%2F1%2F17922494%2Fwinners-losers-week-4-atlanta-falcons-jeff-fisher-broadcasting-baker-mayfield
Soon, I learned that the announcer was none other than the Seven-and-Nine Sensei himself. Sure enough, the guy who made football boring as a coach could also make football boring as an announcer. But even funnier was some of the stuff Fisher said. It seemed as if the only things that could excite him were poor play and bad decision-making.
View: https://twitter.com/PJKinsella19/status/1046456069952868357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1046456069952868357&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theringer.com%2Fnfl%2F2018%2F10%2F1%2F17922494%2Fwinners-losers-week-4-atlanta-falcons-jeff-fisher-broadcasting-baker-mayfield
Sadly, this was probably Fisher’s last turn in the booth—Sunday’s game was the only one he was scheduled to call, and he was so outrageously bad at the gig that I can’t imagine them giving him any further games. Then again, I thought the same thing about his coaching career, and he got to do that for 22 years.
