Jeff Fisher ... how does he have a job?

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow

He's averaging 7.8 wins per year overall.

You take out his 6 seasons of 10+ wins, he's averaging 6.3 wins per season and his overall record is 101-128. That's horrible.

Well that's a really stupid way to look at it.

If you take out his 6 worst seasons and his record is 138-101, which is pretty damn good. You don't get to just subtract a guy's best seasons and then call him shit.

As for why he's still coaching, the answer is pretty obvious - his worst seasons are largely just 'meh' and not atrocious. The guy wins about 3 games every year that he has seemingly no business winning. So for as seemingly awful has he's been, the fact that he has 2 more 10+ win seasons than he has 10+ loss seasons buys him some rope. And in his 21 complete seasons, he's only had 2 seasons where he didn't get to 6 wins. The Chiefs did that 5 times in a 7 year stretch.

I mean that's damning with faint praise at best, but the question was asked and that's the answer. Fisher's teams never truly suck out loud and for many owners, that's good enough. It puzzles me as his teams are not only mediocre but they're also boring as **** so I'm not sure how an owner sees that as a good thing, but that's absolutely why.

Oh, and the fact that the Rams Executive Vice President of Football Operations & Chief Operating Officer (Kevin Demoff) is Fisher's agent's son probably doesn't hurt...