The best thing for this team in the long run is probably another 6-7 win season. The heat is already on Fisher so another year like that should [please please please] mean the end of him as coach. If this team plays above that, they'll keep Fisher on board and continue to have this awful offense, with inconsistent play from game to game while often not allowing a lot of the young talent to grow and thrive, but also a few good games against good teams to give us false hope.
Fisher is set in his ways, he hasn't adapted and evolved the way good coaches do, so we're stuck as a 7 win team. He has 6 straight seasons of 6-8 wins, including all 4 years with the Rams. He hasn't made the playoffs since 2008 and hasn't won a playoff game since 2003 [they did have a bye in 2008].
He helped take this team from the worst, most talented-less team in the league to being somewhat respectable, but he's proven that he can't get over that hump. His track record suggests that even if we did win 10 games, the next year would probably see us at 7-9 once again. There are plenty of examples, and this one has been hashed out time and time again recently, but I can't get over his handling of Goff.
Seattle signed Flynn to a big deal but chose to start Wilson right away. Winston and Newton had awful preseasons but their teams understood that those two guys were easily the most talented QBs on their rosters and could learn a lot from actually playing the games. Wentz was coming from Div 2, hardly played in the preseason, but a trade of Bradford meant that Wentz got the week 1 start for Philly. Not only does Goff not start, but it seemed like Fisher never wanted him too. He was probably thinking back to McNair and believing that that's the way to handle a young QB [even though that was 20 years ago].
I think just about every team in this league would give their 1st overall QB the week 1 start, or at the very least, do their damnedest to try to have that QB prepared and ready for week 1, but Fisher decided to go against the grain, which is an odd thing to do when you're not the trend setter here, you've been mediocre forever! Look around you, there are examples of actual good teams doing things a certain way, why not try to do the same?
We know who Keenum is. We saw it last year when he was asked to manage games for us. He won a game in Seattle while throwing for 100 yards and attempting 23 passes. We do not have the luxury of sitting our young QB behind Brett Favre. We have a run of the mill, game manager who doesn't deal well with pressure and can't throw the ball with the strength, touch, or accuracy that Goff can. Keenum will typically play better than he did last night, but he is who he is. Goff has the ability to be a difference maker. In this offense, with Fisher around, I'm not betting on him setting the world on fire, but he's the best QB on the roster, don't let some shaky preseason drives and Fisher's
mumble jumble fool you.
So yeah, that's the end of my vent, I feel much better now
