How did the Titans fall so quickly?
Jeff Fisher is the longest-serving active NFL coach; 16 years at the helm, he has run the Oilers/Titans since before Bill Clinton met Monica Lewinsky. When 2009 began, Fisher was coming off a season in which he led Tennessee to a 13-3 record and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. His seemed the most secure coaching position in football, except perhaps for Urban Meyer at the University of Florida and John Gagliardi at Saint John’s of Minnesota. Now Fisher is likely to conclude 2009 fired — if, that is, he makes it to the end of 2009 in a coach’s cap. Godfrey Daniel, the Titans are awful. Their 59-0 defeat at New England — the worst shutout defeat in professional football since the Rams beat the Falcons by the same margin in 1976 — wasn’t as close as the score indicated. In slush, snow and wind, New England fumbled once; Tennessee fumbled six times. The Flying Elvii threw 45 passes without an interception; the Flaming Thumbtacks threw 14 passes with two interceptions. New E
