Rams tight end Jared Cook raised some eyebrows on Thursday night when he said the team was “out-coached” in the loss to the Cardinals. Rams coach Jeff Fisher doesn’t expect to hear that kind of comment from Cook again.
“I know exactly what he was talking about,” Fisher said, via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “We discussed it, and I think if he had to do it all over again, he wouldn’t have gone there from the ‘out-coached’ standpoint. It’s not really what he meant as far as our discussion, communication this morning. It was kind of a one-fell-swoop: ‘Hey, we just got beat’ and included it all. He wasn’t being critical of coaching.”
Asked if he took Cook’s comments personally, Fisher added, “We discussed it, and we’re fine.”
Cook, who also said the Rams were “out-played,” didn’t seem to be calling out his coaches so much as saying that everyone on the team should have been better on Thursday night. Still, a player saying his team was “out-coached” won’t necessarily sit right with the coach. Fisher wants Cook to know that he shouldn’t say it again.