It was announced Thursday night that the Tennessee Titans and Jeff Fisher will be parting ways. Fisher was the Titans’ head coach for seventeen years, making him the longest tenured coach in the NFL. That title now belongs to Eagles coach Andy Reid. 

I have noticed a lot of positive feedback among Titans fans regarding Fisher’s departure. I don’t get it. That’s why I am writing this article. I think Titans fans will miss Fisher now more than ever.

Jeff Fisher is one of the more respected coaches around the NFL. Yes, he only had six winning seasons in seventeen years as the head coach, but this is because he never had enough talent. You see, the best wide receiver he ever had was Kevin Dyson.

Dyson lasted only four seasons with Tennessee before being released in 2002. The attempts to replace him with guys like Tyrone Calico, Bobby Wade, Justin Givens and Justin Gage all failed. Through all of this, what did owner Bud Adams do? Absolutely nothing.

Every year, the Titans would scrape at the bottom of the barrel for free agents, yet nothing worked. Adams refused to spend his money, instead he chose to pocket the extra money.

Examples of star players leaving are endless with this team: Derrick Mason, Samari Rolle, Steve McNair, Kyle Vanden Bosch, Albert Haynesworth, Keith Bulluck and many more. Haynesworth was asking for too much, but how about the rest?

Derrick Mason had averaged three straight 1,000 yard seasons until this year. He left the Titans five years ago. He could still be the Titans top target.

To this day, Samari Rolle is still a viable option at cornerback. 

Kyle Vanden Bosch had emerged into a star with the Titans and in the city of Nashville. Once his contract expired, boom, he was gone.

Keith Bulluck and Steve McNair (R.I.P.) were the two worst situations out of all of them. Bulluck had led the defense for years, he was the most underrated player in the NFL for a lot of that time. Yet does he get shown any respect for his great play? No.

Finally to Steve McNair. Adams locked McNair out of the practice facility. He refused to let McNair practice and instead chose Vince Young. As we all know now, Young was Fisher’s downfall.  

Jeff Fisher did the most with the least than any coach in the NFL. He took a trainwreck and made them respectable. Now that Fisher is gone, can they get a guy on the same level as Jeff Fisher? I seriously doubt it. 

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