I think Fisher is considered such a great coach because he is known to be a class act. I think everyone in the league likes him including the media so no one wants to say anything negative about him.

Now, I have to admit to being one of those people. I just like the guy. You’re right about his record, but when it comes down to it he’s likeable, and quotable. He makes you want to believe he can bring the wins.

BTW, I wouldn’t want any of those coaches except for Dungy and he wouldn’t come.

doesn’t necessarily mean that I think Fisher should be fired or that I like this coach more than Fisher, but I thought it was a neat poll.

I picked Holmgren because of his track record with turning quarterbacks into legends (Montana, Young, Favre). I think Shanahan’s case has been seriously hurt by the fact that McDaniels has turned that team around in Denver (with a shittier quarterback, no less).

Don’t think Dungy would ever come out of retirement and I think Cowher is similar to (but probably slightly better than) Fisher (in terms of philosophy and not necessarily coaching style) but with a Super Bowl win. That leaves Gruden, who won a Super Bowl with Dungy’s team in Tampa Bay (and then got progressively worse until he was fired) and Billick, who, as was noted, should never be voted for. Ever.

I do like Fisher, but you make excellent points about records. Glad someone actually put it all together with words and numbers. Nice post.

The most realistic options are Holmgren or Gruden, considering their history. And I’d take Holmgren way before Gruden.

1) Just because Denny Green got fired for one losing seasons after 8 winning seasons doesn’t make that firing correct, and thus a good reason to fire Fisher. Teams fire coaches all too soon all the time for dumb reasons. Minnesota hasn’t returned to the form Denny Green had them at since firing him either, so was it a good firing? Results say no, probably not.

2) Super Bowls on a coaching resume are highly overrated. is Jon Gruden a better coach because his winning percentage is the same but he has one Super Bowl? I say no. In a sample size of ability, the Super Bowl is just one game. In his, it was against his former team that run the same offense he designed and the defense destroyed it.

3) You need to include an “other” on the list. The only one I’d even consider is Gruden. The rest are past the optimal age for coaches. It is a proven statistical fact that after the age of 55, coaches and their performance steeply decline. Makes sense, considering it’s a high stress job. Who can handle that at 60 years old without some sort of decline from when they were 45?

I’d sooner nail my balls to a burning building then see him in a Titans cap.

between Dungy and Cowher-I voted for the Cowher

I’d still rather have Fish. I think its insanity that people have turned on him all of a sudden. Where was all this hate 7 weeks ago? Everyone loved him and anyone who said anything bad about him woulda gotten chewed out. If anyone woulda talked about getting rid of him they probably would be banned. This notion that the game has somehow passed him by in 6 games and he cant coach anymore is so ridiculous. Nothing has changed with him. He’s still the same coach everyone loved and would defend to the death but now that we hit a rough patch everyone wants to look at the glass half empty. Nobody cared about his 5 losing seasons when we were 13-3 last year. Most woulda called him a genius last year and now he’s being compared w/ Denny Green. Child please. When has Fish ever had a stacked team? When has he had a team that you could point to and say “that’s the most talented team in the league, they should win it all”? I’d say never. I’m amazed at what he’s done with the level of talent he’s coached. Just remember, if Fish gets canned, he’s gonna move ahead of most, if not all the coaches in that poll on GM’s lists of who they’d like to hire as coach. You’ll miss him when he’s gone.

I do not think we need to bring in an old retread. However from the coaches you offer in your poll I voted Cowher. i think his style is a lot like Jeff’s which I actually like. The old school run the ball down your throat and play great D. It is just power football at its best. Another reason I picked Cowher is that if he were to take over this team there is not going to be a 2-3 year window waiting to draft his style players before we would see a turn around. Besides the QB, position we are built quite a bit like his teams of the past. One las note Cowher has passion and a fire that burns deep inside. I remember all the closeup views of him on TV chewing his players and spit flying. He would have gone ape shit in New England this year and that is what I think this team is missing.

tenured coaches have lost their touch on this new game of football. the league is going in a different direction. as you can see passing is the new trend in the nfl. if you look at the numbers, this year has the deepest pool of qbs. time for the titans to get on the bandwagon. we have a good run game, but it’s boring and easily predictable to base the whole offense around it.

winning percentages mean little when you look at coaches who get teams stacked with talent – Dungy, Shanahan. Who puts Marty in any conversation of good coaches, he is the Al Gore of football. There is more to coaching than winning percentage. One can not separate the McNair era from Fisher. You have to admit that they helped each other in terms of careers. Fisher brought respect to a laughing stock organization from Houston. I thought the offense was boring back when Eddie George carried the ball 25 times right up the gut for 3 yards every ballgame. Fisher is just first class, all around. He isn’t flashy, impressive, trying to earn style points for fans with too much blogging time, or whinning and complaining that all the talent has gone – which falls upon the front office. The guy played for the Bears – he is just hard core, old style, smack yo mama football and I for one like it.

it was Cower who put Fish off the playing field with the knee injury back in 1938!!! And he sucked as an announcer anyway.