Jeff Fisher reportedly wants to coach the Bears next year
By Tony Andracki December 19, 2017 11:12 AM
If the Bears part ways with John Fox after the 2017 like many pundits predict, they could have a free agent coach ready and waiting...
...in the form of Jeff Fisher.
Seriously:
The coach notorious for his amazing ability to hover around .500 and made internet-famous with his epic "7-9 bulls--t" speech on "Hard Knocks" reportedly wants to coach in Cleveland, Indianapolis or Chicago:
This isn't the first we've heard about Fisher's desire to get back into coaching, as CBSSports' Jason La Canfora wrote on the matter earlier this month.
Fisher was fired in the middle of the 2016 by the Los Angeles Rams, who are now one of the best teams in football and are about to clinch a playoff spot after annihilating the Seattle Seahawks last week.
He is 173-165-1 in his NFL career and hasn't finished above .500 since 2008 when he went 13-3. Since then, he is 45-63-1 in six-plus seasons as coach of the Rams and Tennessee Titans.
The soon-to-be-60-year-old Fisher is 5-6 in his career in the postseason, including a trip to Super Bowl XXXIV (1999) when he and the Titans lost to the St. Louis Rams.
The heck of it is, it's easy to fire Bears coaches. It's the hiring "better" coaches that are simply beyond the ability of Halas Hall to do properly. Each time we fire a coach we get a worse one. I can't imagine how bad the next one will be. Fisher would probably fit the bill there tho. We could cement the title, "Cleveland Browns of the NFC" title with him here. It's in the bag.