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Position: | Chief advisor | ||||||
Personal information | |||||||
Born: | Culver City, California, U.S. | February 25, 1958||||||
Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||
Weight: | 188 lb (85 kg) | ||||||
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High school: | William Howard Taft (Woodland Hills, California) | ||||||
College: | USC | ||||||
NFL draft: | 1981 / Round: 7 / Pick: 177 | ||||||
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Regular season: | NFL: 173–165–1 (.512)
USFL: 2–8 (.200) | ||||||
Postseason: | NFL: 5–6 (.455) | ||||||
Career: | NFL: 178–171–1 (.510)
USFL: 2–8 (.200) | ||||||
Coaching stats at PFR |
Jeffrey Michael Fisher (born February 25, 1958) is an American football coach and former cornerback and return specialist. He served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 22 seasons, primarily with the Houston / Tennessee Oilers / Titans franchise. Fisher coached the Oilers / Titans from 1994 to 2010 and the St. Louis / Los Angeles Rams from 2012 to 2016. He is currently the interim commissioner of the Arena Football League.
After playing college football at University of Southern California, Fisher was drafted in the seventh round of the 1981 NFL draft by the Chicago Bears, and played with the Bears for five seasons. He won a Super Bowl ring in 1985 while on injured reserve during his final season as a player.
Fisher then held several coaching positions for various teams before becoming the head coach of the Titans towards the end of the 1994 season during their tenure as the Houston Oilers and was the team's first coach when they relocated to Tennessee. Fisher continued to coach the Titans until after the end of the 2010 season when he and the team mutually agreed to part ways. Following a season away from football, Fisher was hired as the head coach of the Rams in 2012 and coached the team during their last four years in St. Louis. He remained the head coach of the Rams during the franchise's return to Los Angeles in 2016 but was fired near the end of the season.[1]
Fisher's most successful season was in 1999, when he led the Titans to the franchise's first (and only) Super Bowl appearance in XXXIV, which ended in close defeat by the St. Louis Rams for their first Super Bowl title. However, despite compiling a winning record as a head coach, Fisher's career has been noted for an overall lack of success, having only attained six winning seasons and postseason appearances in over two decades in the NFL. He is tied with Dan Reeves & Bill Belichick for the most regular-season losses in NFL history at 165, but has the third-most total losses at 171, behind Reeves at 174 and Belichick at 178.[2]