Gone Fishin'

Still no word from Jeff Fisher on taking the Rams' or Dolphins' head coaching job. Besides Fisher's concerns that the Rams might move, Jason LaCanfora says now on NFL.com that money may also be a holdup. Stan Kroenke may be balking at the amount of money Fisher wants, a rumored $7 million a year. Fisher also reportedly wants a title of executive vice president wherever he ends up. Starting to smell like a coach who wants more power than he's worth to me.

Then again, Kroenke pays Arsene Wenger $7 million a year to coach Arsenal, so there's precedent. Though in soccer, as I understand it, the coach is also the GM. That never works for long in the NFL.

The Rams seem to have a lot of hope invested in getting Fisher. That is the main reason I'd hope they get him. By no means am I crushed, nor should Rams Nation be, if he chooses Miami, but the Rams better come up with a whole lot better than they're currently entertaining in the rest of their coaching search in that event. I swear the next guy they're going to interview is the Seahawks' waterboy.

On the coaching carousel -
Raheem Morris has joined the Redskins as defensive backs coach,
and Brian Billick's name has finally come up in a coaching search; he's reportedly a candidate to replace Mike Mularkey in Atlanta. Perhaps not coincidentally, Billick is HC Mike Smith's brother-in-law. I wonder if that's why you never hear other teams interested in Billick.

RamView's heretofore-undisclosed coaching candidates list would have looked about like this at the end of the season:
1 - Andy Reid (didn't get fired)
2 - Tony Dungy (not much of a chance)
3 - Fisher
4 - Billick
5 - Gregg Williams
6 - Mike Martz (yeah, I know)
7 - Mike Sherman
8 - Chip Kelly (no idea if he'd even have interest)
9 - Rob Chudzinski
10 - Either Gruden (Jon started higher but dropped)
11 - Jerry Gray
12 - Might as well have kept Spagnuolo
13 - 49ers special teams coach Brad Seely, so he could fool somebody else with that cheap trash fake FG pass for once in his life

If Fisher doesn't make his damn mind up soon, I'll have to evolve this list. Actually, it's evolving right now.

And where, pray tell, is Bill Cowher? Never been on the list. I don't perceive him as a build-from-the-ground-up success. And the Rams' best defensive pieces are all 4-3 guys. Don't need somebody bringing in a 3-4 and screwing up the few good pieces we have.

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