Rams coach Jeff Fisher may be on the hot seat after his team's blowout loss over the weekend to the Bears.
Or maybe, Fisher is doing exactly what his boss is hoping he does.
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Fisher's Rams suffered a huge setback in their quest for the playoffs with a 37-13 loss at home to Chicago. That sunk the coach's approval rating in a turfshowtimes.com poll. On a scale of 1-10 (with "10" labeled as Fisher doing an "Ahh-mazing" job), 79 percent of responders gave him a grade of 5 or less, with 26 percent giving him a "1" for "Turrible."
But the Rams struggles' might not be such a "turrible" thing for owner Stan Kroenke's efforts to relocate the club to Los Angeles, according to St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bernie Miklasz.
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The writer, also a co-host on St. Louis' ESPN Radio affiliate, argues that Kroenke is getting a lot of mileage from his coach, as reported in another turfshowtimes.com article.
"If anything, we can speculate that Kroenke is content to keep Fisher around because the coach is potentially useful and valuable in another way," Miklasz wrote. "Fisher has the experience of guiding a franchise through a difficult relocation; he was the coach during the Houston Oilers' transition into the Tennessee Titans.
"If anything, these demoralizing losses by the 2015 Rams works in Kroenke's favor.
"The chronic losing isn't healthy for attendance.
"... So if you really want to know why Coach Fisher is secure, the speculative answer is pretty simple.
"Coach Fisher may be bad for local business ... but he's very good for Kroenke's master business plan."
Fisher this week benched starting quarterback Nick Foles for Case Keenum, who turfshowtimes.com reports the Rams waived last season and had to use a seventh-round draft pick to reacquire from the Texans. The coach also signed concussion-prone wide receiver Wes Welker in another attempt to bolster the offense.
So Fisher certainly is acting like a coach trying to salvage a season. But they may not affect his job status, either way.
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