Again, Fisher and his offensive "minds" demonstrate either their utter lack of competence, their complete lack of balls, or both. This loss is SQUARELY on Fisher and Boras.
The playcalling today was atrocious. Fisher and Boras were coaching scared, more worried about something bad happening than trying to take the initiative of making something good happen. And we see the results - if you don't play to win, you lose.
Look at the point totals given up by our defense the last 4 games - 10 (with 7 given up on a pick six), 13, 6, and 14. And what is our record in those games? 1-3. You don't go 1-3 over a stretch where your defense plays like that if your offense is competent. Yet still, in Fisher's 5th year, we are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
The ultra-conservative, play-it-safe gameplan today was reminiscent of what we have seen in Fisher's entire tenure as Rams HC. Even when we had a potential star QB in the pre-ACL Bradford, he was coached into being Checkdown Charlie, playing it safe, not throwing beyond the sticks on 3rd down, etc. etc. etc. We saw the same things today with Goff. And the playcalling today just tells me if Fisher sticks around, then Goff's fate will be much the same as pre-ACL Bradford. He'll get pummeled by the fan base for not pushing the ball downfield, ditto from various talking heads who cover the NFL, and our offense will continue to sputter with him taking the lion's share of the blame. Worst of all, none of it will be his fault.
Bottom line, is that this team has a ceiling, and that ceiling has a name - Jeff Fisher. As long as he's the head coach, we are going to have a crappy offense that sits at or near the bottom of the league. He's too scared to open things up, and you could put HOFer's at every position and the offense would still look bad. It's not going to look good on any consistent basis until he's gone. Time to move on.
Hopefully now that the Rams have moved and Stan knows he needs to capture the new market he's in, he'll be amenable to making a change.
