Jeff Diamond: Back in the game, Fisher has had a whirlwind last few months
20.05.12
One year ago, Jeff Fisher spent his 53rd birthday snowboarding in Montana. After a stalwart stint on the Tennessee sideline, Fisher was no longer the Titans head coach, freeing him from the responsibilities of a typical February.
His 54th birthday last Friday, however, was back to his norm. The new Rams coach spent it in Indianapolis for the NFL Scouting Combine, balancing a non-stop schedule of meetings with Rams staff members, interviews with coaching staff candidates, trade talks with teams seeking the Rams' coveted No. 2 overall pick and -- oh yeah -- combine workouts to watch and interviews with 18 draft prospects that evening.
"I've been at the Combine on my birthday in 25 of the last 26 years," Fisher told me when I caught up with him in Indianapolis last weekend. "I enjoyed my year off and the opportunity to do some things I couldn't do while coaching -- watch my son Trent play football as a redshirt freshman at Auburn, climb Mt. Kilimanjaro last May with the Wounded Warriors, play some golf and do a lot of fishing in the summer and fall in Montana. But now I'm really excited about the Rams and our future. There's a hundred things going on at once and I have to prioritize to get things done."
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