Comments on: Fisher expected to get $35 million for five years, no extra title http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/ ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:31:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: realfootballfan http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520904 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:31:30 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520904 Lesson one for prospective HCs, get a lot of media friends. They can dumb down the public to believing that you’re a good coach, when you’re in actuality mediocre at best, and are essentially living off of a questionable playoff run that some still aren’t sure should have ever gone past the first round.

In contrast, the guy you “beat” that day (Wade Phillips) gets dumped on everywhere he goes, despite only having one losing season, but you’re praised for your 12 .500 or below seasons in 17 years with cries of you not having enough power (hogwash because he got it when Floyd Reece was pushed out and quickly saw the talent in TN dry up).

Jeff Fisher, the definition of leaving someone in place long enough and they’ll get you some playoff appearances. Now, he’s parlayed that and his media friends championing him at every turn to $7 million a year. Well played, Statche, well played.

]]> By: charlesdixon1 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520858 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:15:32 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520858 I have been a fan of Jeff Fisher since back when he was the head coach for the Houston Oilers but, That was then and this is now. He is a terrible clock manger, plays way too conservitive and afraid to think outside the box. In the last few seasons he has not been professional towards his own players and taking things personal. All and all he really is not 35 million dollars good. “Coaches Build Teams”

]]> By: tbtrojan http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520851 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:11:41 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520851 $7 million a year for a guy that average 1 winning season every 3 years, $21 million per winning season, BARGAIN!!!

Lord only knows what a guy like Cowher can demand now, my guess is the owner will have to purchase one of the soon to be bankrupt European countries (something ike Greece) and give him that as a signing bonus along with $10 million a year.

]]> By: lottsmissingfinger http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520801 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:40:00 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520801 jnbnet, Bill Belichick gets $7.5 MIL a year.

Considering the salaries of the other NFC West coaches, somebody should call the police because the Niners are stealing.

]]> By: isujames http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520779 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:27:39 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520779 i dont think he is worth $7 mill/year

]]> By: dvdman123 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520767 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:17:45 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520767 Wow that’s a lot of money for a guy who got fired from his last job and never won a Super Bowl.

]]> By: nfloracle http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520743 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:07:23 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520743 Rams 2012 Record: 6-10…

… and falling as these potential coordinator hiring decisions look worse and worse.

]]> By: rascalmanny http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520727 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:00:01 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520727 Titans went 13-3 in 2008 with a backup QB. Fisher hasn’t forgotten how to coach or win.

His last year as a Titans coach and with this season the Titans had quitters and check collectors.

Fisher can win when he has winners on the team. And much of that attitude starts with the QB.

Those of you still wearing the VY glasses can choke on stats all you want. If VY had put a third of the work in that Tom Brady does the Titans might have had a SB win.

]]> By: sguy2130 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520718 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:56:31 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520718 Wow, massively overpaid. The Rams were obviously desperate for a Head Coach w/ credibility. He may work out for them, but that contract is crazy.

]]> By: rayjayjohnsonjr http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520713 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:53:37 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520713 I don’t think that Sam Walton would have wasted his money on the Fisher deal but son-in-law knows best?

]]> By: jnbnet http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520693 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:41:08 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520693 I wonder what Bill Belichick is worth?

]]> By: 700levelvet http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520657 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:27:30 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520657 Fisher just hit the lottery…..120 losses as a head coach…..35 million…..

]]> By: masternathan85 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520640 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:21:26 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520640 He may wind up with final say on personnel matters, but Thomas says it won’t be a “my way or else” proposition.

I don’t see a difference between the two?? Doesn’t final mean final?

]]> By: daknight93 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520637 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:19:53 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520637 wayy overpaid for a coach with no rings..barely a 500 or better coach…good luck rams

]]> By: vegaskid21 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520561 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:44:28 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520561 Wish I was way overpaid.

]]> By: 69finfan http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520560 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:44:09 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520560 God Bless JF. If he (and his agent) can milk $35,000,000 out of the Rams based on his past accomplishments and apparently his name then good for them. Also, as the infamous Ricky Bobby said “If you aint first, you’re last”.

]]> By: jdz3184 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520540 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:33:14 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520540 Wiz $6 mil per year
Fisher $7 mil per year
Carroll around $6.5 mil per year plus other control
Harbaugh $5 mil per year

Interesting, and not bad for what is/was considered the worst division in football.

]]> By: realitypolice http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520537 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:32:15 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520537 rascalmanny says:
Jan 17, 2012 10:07 AM
Hopefully Fisher won’t get stuck with another VY and won’t have an owner that doesn’t have his back.

The VY debacle brought his whole record down and Fisher will have to fight to overcome those lost years.

NFL owners know Fisher can win. They haven’t forgotten his pre-VY period.
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Fisher made the playoffs 4 times in 12 years before VY got there, and twice in 5 years after VY got there.

In other words, before Young got there, Fisher made the playoffs 33% of the time.

After Young got there, Fisher made the playoffs 40% of the time.

Did you actually do any research at all before you made your completely wrong point?

]]> By: realitypolice http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520528 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:25:17 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520528 That comes out to 1 million dollars per year for every time he made the playoffs in 17 years plus an extra mill for having the best mustache of any head coach in the NFL.

He will be contactually obligated to return that extra million if Dave Wanstadt ever gets another head coaching job.

]]> By: hatesycophants http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520523 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:23:34 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520523 @willie,

An elite coach doesn’t need the laundry list of excuses you provide for Fisher. Also, to any real football fan 8-8 has the same value as a losing season.

Go Lions! Go Badgers!

]]> By: ticalcaldwell http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520515 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:21:40 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520515 This hiring is strictly the NAME…..Fisher has been average at best for YEARS…..wow….Fisher is really smart though and he DID have to deal with Vince Young and that mess….so we’ll see

]]> By: geo1113 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520503 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:17:49 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520503 dchuwo says:
Jan 17, 2012 9:47 AM
$7 million a year and owners chasing a coach with 11 losing seasons in 17 seasons? Call me crazy, but I don’t see it.

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Out of his 16 full seasons, he had 5 losing seasons (and let’s face it 1-5 after Pardee was fired really doesn’t belong to him). But 8-8 is not a losing season. You want to say he is mediocre for only having 6 winning seasons out of his 16 full seasons, have at it. But don’t make up losing seasons when it is not true.

]]> By: adantsa http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520492 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:12:45 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520492 Who cares what you have to pay, it doesn’t count against the cap. You got the coach you wanted, he’s bringing in a great D coordinator in Gregg Williams and either Shotty or Jackson will be an upgrade over McDaniels. Fisher knows how to win in this league, and the Rams have been nowhere near mediocrity, he is the right guy to turn the ship around. All you non Rams fans need to quit piping in, he was the longest tenured coach for a very long time, and there has to be a reason for that. There is very little downside to this move.

]]> By: nyyjetsknicks http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520486 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:08:02 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520486 142 – 120 gets you $35 million? At least with all that money he can buy himself a nice ring because he’ll never win one.

]]> By: skito13 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520483 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:07:35 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520483 We will see who the jerks are. Coaching staffs need chemistry just like teams, Coach Fisher is picking who he wants.not fumbling around trying to find a could be coach in the haystack. Mr.Kronke aka Stan The Man has his pick.

]]> By: rascalmanny http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520481 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:07:06 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520481 Hopefully Fisher won’t get stuck with another VY and won’t have an owner that doesn’t have his back.

The VY debacle brought his whole record down and Fisher will have to fight to overcome those lost years.

NFL owners know Fisher can win. They haven’t forgotten his pre-VY period.

]]> By: fcoprado http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520479 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:06:52 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520479 Last season the Rams probably had the worst coaching staff in the NFL.A year later,they’re going to have one of the best.Fisher is worth the money paid and he will turn around the Rams.

]]> By: joemontanawasthegreatest http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520470 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:02:12 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520470 When you get paid like, that you had better perform.

]]> By: jdbaker01 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520469 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:01:47 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520469 If Hue Jackson isn’t going to be involved in the Rams GM search then he might as well not be there.

]]> By: stl45fan http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/17/fisher-expected-to-get-35-million-for-five-years-no-extra-title/#comment-1520468 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:01:38 +0000 http://nbcprofootballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=180084#comment-1520468 All Fans know that sports money is Monopoly Money! This is Walmart Money! It really doesn’t matter to us.

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