Fisher’s future in Tennessee not assured

How can the league-wide winning percentage be .492? For every game won, there is a loss. For every tie, there is a half game won and a half a game lost for each team involved. By definition, the league-wide winning percentage is .500.

Also, I don't think that Adams would have to pay Fisher much of anything. He would be snatched up in a heartbeat by a team that would double or triple what he'd make for sitting at home.

I think they are referring to the combined winning percentages of present coaches throughout their careers (not just this season).

Bingo Pakenham, you get the prize and you offer a simple definition and in the study we looked at 16 years of coaching records and hires.

Wasn't the 13-3 record last year--in 2008?

I agree with RICH. Fisher would have job offers the day he was fired. In fact, I bet Dan Snyder would have Redskins One in the air heading to tennessee the hour of the announcement.

There's generally an assumption that Shanahan, Cowher, Holmgren and Gruden will be the most highly sought coaching hires for next year, but some of the most successful coaches over the last few years have been first-timers (who also seem much cheaper). And let's face it - of that list, only Cowher went out on a high note and Cowher was the beneficiary of a tremendous amount of ownership support and front-office talent. And Holmgren is the only one who really built his franchise from the ground up.

Here in DC -- where "Fire the Owner" is now a pretty reliable chant when things are going bad -- the expectation is that The Daniel will open up his bank account to lure one of the above to this deeply dysfunctional organization. Fisher won't be hot enough for his tastes. But I'd really wish he could learn from Arthur Blank -- stop trying to get the hot coach, get a really smart, well-trained personnel guy and a really smart, well-trained, seasoned new coach, have a plan, and let them execute it. Blank deserves a tremendous amount of credit for learning his lesson, taking on a lower profile, and hiring and supporting really good people.

Robert,
I've read that Floyd Reese was fired after losing a "power struggle" in Tennessee. Can you shed any light on what happened?

Thing is.... nobody can tell me what decisions Fisher has made that any of those other said coaches would NOT have made. He hasn't made any major decisions that have been catastrophic - except drafting Vince Young - which we all know by NOW Jeff Fisher didn't really WANT to do.

I like his style. Run first, pass later. Prevent injuries by running the ball, running time off the clock and running fewer plays. Fisher is not the kind of jackass who will run a score up and beat somebody 59-0. You don't know how badly I wanted somebody to knock Tom Brady on his ass on Sunday in the 4th quarter and put him out for a few games. That would have been priceless. Fisher is smart enough to put his younger players in and get them some experience in situations like that.

Fisher is not on the field missing tackles, out of position, dropping the ball or not picking up blitzes. Yes - it's his job to procure the personnel who can DO those things, but the Titans were 13-3 last year. Twenty-ONE of 22 players returned. They could do all of those things last year. Why wouldn't Fisher feel comfortable coming in to this season believing he already HAD effective personnel? He did. I would have, too.

It's kind of like driving home from work, parking in the driveway, and all is well. Get up the next morning to go to work, and the car won't start. There is no reasonable explanation for it. The car ran just fine the night before. Nothing has changed! Why wouldn't I believe my car would start the next morning? I put my key in and turn it with 100% confidence that the car will start. Nothing has given me a clue that it WON'T. No sputtering, no clankety-clank-clank noises, no hesitations, no knocking, no squealing. It should start.

Fisher has done this year what we ALL do every single day. He put the key in and turned it. The car just won't start. It's not Fisher's fault. We don't need a new driver, we just need to put some fuel in the tank.

Robert,
I've read that Floyd Reese was fired after losing a "power struggle" in Tennessee. Can you shed any light on what happened?

YEAH writes: "Fisher is not the kind of jackass who will run a score up and beat somebody 59-0. You don't know how badly I wanted somebody to knock Tom Brady on his ass on Sunday in the 4th quarter and put him out for a few games"

...no, but he's the kind of jackass who will celebrate when one of his players takes out another players knees.... YOU don't know how HAPPY I was to see this moron get HIS a$$ kicked, okay?

...and it wasn't Belichick who couldn't hold onto the ball on every possession....he could've scored 90 points if he really wanted to.....Plus Coach Porn Stache had it coming after popping off about spygate....LOVED IT

YEAH, the fact remains maybe he was only missing 1 player from the year before. But, that one player was the teams MVP hands down. The team revolved around him. Fishers strategy revolved around haynesworth. So, he let him go then he let all his veteran corners go to free agency. He decided to draft some rookie corners and it backfired. He greatly overestimated the talent on the team especially with backups and all the aging players. But thank god he locked up Collins! Gave him a two year deal. Now I definitely don't believe Collins is the problem but he kept him and let all these quality defense players go??? Why?? Anybody could have replaced Collins...anybody that didn't throw interceptions at least. Fisher has just gone away from what he believes...he wanted all the power, got it, and now it will be him that takes the fall. I am a diehard Titans fan and I hope they don't win a game this year. 59-0 can't be forgiven. They need to clean house. Fisher has run his course in Nashville...he's either gotten too lazy or too confident/careless. Never seen a better in game coach but his time is up in Nashville. It's bound to happen and it will happen this year....oh, and take a look at Denver...as an example...coaches can be replaced and need to be after a certain time. That's the NFL and you better get replaced after 59-0!