OT: Congrats to Jeff Fisher

[Brady_to_Moss]

Watching Hard Knocks...you could tell this team would be horrific

 

[RecoveringCowboy]

Speaking of overrated, what a better place to be than the LA Rams?

In the 70's, the Rams would easily win the NFC West and usually get eliminated the 1st playoff round, like the Colts did for a decade.

 

[AtomicDawg]

The Rams deserve to lose every game this year. Give a coach with a 41-55 record over 6 years an extension. Idiots.

 

[primetime]

NFC is lucky they won't can him. I swear that team would win the SB if they ever made the playoffs. Can't beat any of the crappy teams.

As someone who's watched a lot of Rams games over the past five years because one of my best friends is a big fan, I can tell you this is not at all true.

It's not just Fisher as a coach, though he's very bad, and his staff is just ridiculously stupid. Williams is a legitimate lunatic, Boras has never called plays except for two years at UNLV and can't gameplan his way out of a wet paper bag, and there's a bunch of other cast-offs and morons like Weinke, Singletary, and so on.

The real problem is that the team is filled with mediocre-to-bad players, especially at quarterback. For instance, they gave Tavon Austin, a mediocre gadget player, a huge contract extension equivalent to what Emmanuel Sanders, a legitimate number 1 receiver, got from Denver a week later.

Outside of Donald, Quinn, and Gurley they're really empty of talent.

 

[Horace's Ivories]

I thought he was an odd combo of douchey and creepy on Hard Knocks..

 

[Mack Herron]

Will parachute into a cushy position at 345 Park.

 

[neuronet]

Watching Hard Knocks...you could tell this team would be horrific

I watched the last episode only, and was like...wait...they have NOBODY. How can one team, with the same salary cap as every other team, have so little talent? They are going to suck. I have in-laws in LA who are all excited, I was like, "Should I tell them?" They'll see soon enough.

When they cut Eric Kush I was like...hmmm...I'm sure there is a lot they aren't showing, but he seemed to be the one guy that has some spirit and attitude on that OLine. That said, probably people here could maybe explain why he was cut, I'm assuming he's not as good as his confidence would suggest on the show. He has a lot of heart but did get burned a few times in crap minutes in preseason games, which ain't great, basically getting his QB demolished.

 

[borisman]

Fisher has pictures on someone because he stays employed as a HC even though he sucks.

Yeah, pictures of Goodell blowing Pash while celebrating article 46 after the last cba.

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

He does have a Superbowl ring from being an integral part of the '85 Bears, by "integral" I mean last guy on the roster punt returner who was on IR for most of the season.

#24, last guy on the right, front row

 

[mihap]

169 Wins 157 Losses coaching the Oilers, Titans, and Rams. Sounds like at least a middling NFL coach to me, or better.

This year he has a chance to surpars wins with losses.

 

[rochrist]

Speaking of overrated, what a better place to be than the LA Rams?

In the 70's, the Rams would easily win the NFC West and usually get eliminated the 1st playoff round, like the Colts did for a decade.

Hey! Roman Gabriel man, Roman Gabriel!

 

[WaterfallJumper]

Any word on whether Shula is complaining about another record of his threatened by cheaters? Oh, wait, wrong record . . .

 

[Wheelman]

The Rams deserve to lose every game this year. Give a coach with a 41-55 record over 6 years an extension. Idiots.

Lol, the GIF reactions are awesome!

 

[ViperGTS]

He's gonna get an extension! I read a tweet saying the opener doesn't matter.


Rotoworld Football– Verified account ?@Rotoworld_FB
Jeff Fisher extension 'expected to get done' http://tinyurl.com/j2qn65q

 

[BradyFTW!]

Any time you get the opportunity to lock down a coach who hasn't had a winning season in 6 years, you just have to go for it.

On one hand I wish they were in the AFCE so we could be lucky enough to play such a ****ty team twice a year for the foreseeable future. OTOH I'm glad they're not, since they'd probably IR a few players per year given how they're notoriously hot-headed cheapshotting losers.

 

[BradyFTW!]

I watched the last episode only, and was like...wait...they have NOBODY. How can one team, with the same salary cap as every other team, have so little talent? They are going to suck. I have in-laws in LA who are all excited, I was like, "Should I tell them?" They'll see soon enough.

When they cut Eric Kush I was like...hmmm...I'm sure there is a lot they aren't showing, but he seemed to be the one guy that has some spirit and attitude on that OLine. That said, probably people here could maybe explain why he was cut, I'm assuming he's not as good as his confidence would suggest on the show. He has a lot of heart but did get burned a few times in crap minutes in preseason games, which ain't great, basically getting his QB demolished.

I liked how they started off the whole show by establishing that he's a "hardass disciplinarian". Specifically, he meekly and stupidly fumbled through this speech to some random TC fodder player who clearly would've been cut anyway about how "I made it clear that you weren't to have female visitors and you did so I'm going to have to cut you." It was so clearly for show that it somehow found a way to make me respect Fisher--a guy who I already have no respect for after he cheered on Bobby Wade blowing out Harrison's knee--even less. And it didn't work. He came out of that segment looking like an ineffectual blob trying to appear badass. Which is so much worse than not trying at all.

 

[Ring 6]

As someone who's watched a lot of Rams games over the past five years because one of my best friends is a big fan, I can tell you this is not at all true.

It's not just Fisher as a coach, though he's very bad, and his staff is just ridiculously stupid. Williams is a legitimate lunatic, Boras has never called plays except for two years at UNLV and can't gameplan his way out of a wet paper bag, and there's a bunch of other cast-offs and morons like Weinke, Singletary, and so on.

The real problem is that the team is filled with mediocre-to-bad players, especially at quarterback. For instance, they gave Tavon Austin, a mediocre gadget player, a huge contract extension equivalent to what Emmanuel Sanders, a legitimate number 1 receiver, got from Denver a week later.

Outside of Donald, Quinn, and Gurley they're really empty of talent.

I blame that on the coach, after being there this long.

 

[Captain Cliche]

If you read Moneyball you'll see teams make the repeated mistake of selecting coaches from the same tired good old boy merry-go-round...with the same mediocre results.

Rex, Mangina, Fischer, etc.

BB was the exception as you all well know. He built a team that moved to another city and won a Superbowl. You have to ask yourself was Kraft brilliant or extremely lucky.

 

[Nehalem]

I watched the last episode only, and was like...wait...they have NOBODY. How can one team, with the same salary cap as every other team, have so little talent? They are going to suck. I have in-laws in LA who are all excited, I was like, "Should I tell them?" They'll see soon enough.

The sad thing is they should have MORE talent than the rest of the league with all the picks they got for RG3: "first-round picks in 2012 (No.6 overall), 2013 (No.22 overall), and 2014 (No.2 overall), as well as their second-round pick (No.39 overall) in 2012"

Imagine what Belichick could have done with that

 

[Pats Fanatic]

Speaking of overrated, what a better place to be than the LA Rams?

In the 70's, the Rams would easily win the NFC West and usually get eliminated the 1st playoff round, like the Colts did for a decade.

I remember they keep losing to the Vikings almost very year. The Rams had a better team overall talent wise but just could not get past them.
They also need to get rid of those god ugly uniforms, go back to the blue and gold or the blue and white.