It's finally time to talk about it

I have posted a few entries since it happened, but I still feel incapable of appropriately summing up my feelings about the Jeff Fisher debacle in Tennessee via blog post.  It's finally time for me to discuss it.  Here goes nothing....

I will try to keep as much of my sentimentality toward Fisher to a minimum, as I've expressed my feelings for him before.  But I do have to say that this is the second saddest event to happen in my football-loving career.  The first obviously being the death of Steve McNair.  (The third, having to see Eddie George in a Cowboys uniform.)

I understand the need for change.  I understand that Fisher has only taken the franchise to the Super Bowl once.  I understand that Bud Adams is a crazy old man that Anna Nicole Smith would be marrying if she was still alive (R.I.P.)

HOWEVER, what I don't understand is why it all happened.  I think Fisher's inability to make more appearances in the Super Bowl was more about the lack of talent on the field and less about his coaching abilities.  I genuinely thought that with a new QB this year, the Titans would have a real shot at making it to the big game.

I should have seen the signs earlier.  Several of the members of the coaching staff were lured away, or fired, in the weeks leading up to Fisher's removal.  I guess an overhaul of staffing choices is how Adams thinks he's going to get a better team and I vehemently disagree.

Should Adams have let Fisher stay and keep his great coaching staff mostly intact, work on finding a new franchise QB and work on the connection between the QB and the receivers, it could have been magic.  Instead, they have to start from scratch, building trust between a new coaching staff and quarterback at the same time.

Now rumors are spreading that Fisher is meeting with the Eagles for a coordinator position.  I disapprove of that move for several reasons.  Fisher is too good to be a coordinator; he needs to be the main man, the one calling the shots.  Secondly,  I don't want him anywhere near Michael Vick.  Sure, he's all reformed now or whatever, but I don't think dog killers deserve to be coached by my coach.  Third, Jeff needs a break.  This last year really took a toll on him and I think he deserves a year off before another team has the privilege of calling him their head coach.

As big of a hole as a year without Jeff Fisher will leave in my heart, I'd rather give him the time to recoup from the clusterfuck that was the 2010 season so that the next team gets him at his best.  Maybe I will use my free flight that I was going to use to see the Titans in Tennessee to go find Fisher in Montana instead.

Jeff is my BFF,
Blanche Sanche