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74_75_78_79_ wrote:How about Fisher's Rams these past few years?

Jeff Fisher's teams are great at getting into fights and winning 7 games. He should take his mullet, hop into his Trans-Am, and get lost.

Bryan wrote:

74_75_78_79_ wrote:Jeff Fisher's teams are great at getting into fights and winning 7 games. He should take his mullet, hop into his Trans-Am, and get lost.

He's the best 6 to 8 win "they'll be good next year" coach ... Always puts together decent enough teams for people to make them a 'future' playoff team. Not coming with the Rams, didn't happen as often as people like to think with the Oilers/Titans.

re: fights, it's odd how his teams play don't match how much of a pansy he is on the competition committee.

I always liked Jeff Fisher - don't dislike him now - but a lot of that went away once he became the 'spokesman' for the comp. committee and told the lies, along with Rich McKay.

Fisher's teams are one of the more predictable in the league.

If they play a sound, mistake free, game-planning team like New England, they will get blown out.

If they play a great, physical team--a manhood test--like Seattle or the 49ers (before Harbaugh left) they will often cover the spread if not win outright. This will happen a couple times a year.

Then the following week, full over overconfidence, they will revert to an undisciplined mess, commit all kinds of penalties and turnovers and lose to an inferior squad.

These traits are the hallmark of the "players coach."

Pick your spots with this guy.

Perhaps this Fisher era in StL is beginning the same way it did in Tenn. Quite a few consecutive mediocre or less 'on the cupse' outings and then BAM! A big 12, 13 win year as would be the case in '99. Even if Rams never become a perennial contender, his 'breakout' year with Rams may be coming right up if not this year already. Or maybe it'll happen for him Rams' first year back in LA.

1995 Redskins were a very feisty 6-10 team.

Swept the champion-to-be Cowboys, essentially kept Detroit from winning the NFC Central (If the Lions win that game, they clinch the division in week 17)

Prevented Carolina from being the only expansion team ever to not have a losing record

2 close games with the Eagles (14-7, 37-34)

The Elway hail mary in Denver to Rod Smith

1986 Cardinals, who finished 4-11-1. Along with the one tie, five of their losses were by a touchdown or less.

1987 Raiders, who ended the season 5-10 (strike year). They won their first three games, then lost seven of their final 12 by a touchdown or less--three by a FG or less.

1990 Falcons, who were 5-11, but also lost seven of their games by a touchdown or less--also losing three by a FG or less.

1990 Broncos, who were also 5-11, losing seven games by five points or less, including two by a point and another in OT.

1990 Vikings, who finished 6-10, losing four games by a FG and another by four points.

1991 Seahawks, who finished 7-9, losing six games by a touchdown or less and four by a FG or less.

1991 Browns, who finished 6-10 in Belichick's first season. They lost five games by a FG or less.

1991 Browns, who finished 6-10 in Belichick's first season. They lost five games by a FG or less.

They weren't that far from the playoffs that year. They blew a big lead to the Eagles, they lost two tight ones to AFC Central Champ Houston, and they lost by three at home to the Wild Card Jets. I think they also lost by 2 to Cincinnati.

The next year, they were 7-6 with three games to go, and could take the Central by winning out, but lost to a struggling Detroit team, a Houston team that had to pull it out late, and a meaningless game at Pittsburgh with Bubby Brister quarterbacking.

People rip on Belichick with all this "can't win without Brady" nonsense, but the Browns were still much improved under his watch from what they were in 1990, which was abysmal.

7DnBrnc53 wrote:

1991 Browns, who finished 6-10 in Belichick's first season. They lost five games by a FG or less.

They weren't that far from the playoffs that year. They blew a big lead to the Eagles, they lost two tight ones to AFC Central Champ Houston, and they lost by three at home to the Wild Card Jets. I think they also lost by 2 to Cincinnati.

The next year, they were 7-6 with three games to go, and could take the Central by winning out, but lost to a struggling Detroit team, a Houston team that had to pull it out late, and a meaningless game at Pittsburgh with Bubby Brister quarterbacking.

People rip on Belichick with all this "can't win without Brady" nonsense, but the Browns were still much improved under his watch from what they were in 1990, which was abysmal.

The problem was during those first three years, the team was a disaster in the second half of the year, sporting a 7-17 record during that span.