If the Bears part ways with John Fox after the 2017 like many pundits predict, they could have a free agent coach ready and waiting...
...in the form of Jeff Fisher.
Seriously:
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The coach notorious for his amazing ability to hover around .500 and made internet-famous with his epic "7-9 bulls--t" speech on "Hard Knocks" reportedly wants to coach in Cleveland, Indianapolis or Chicago:
This isn't the first we've heard about Fisher's desire to get back into coaching, as CBSSports' Jason La Canfora wrote on the matter earlier this month.
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Fisher was fired in the middle of the 2016 by the Los Angeles Rams, who are now one of the best teams in football and are about to clinch a playoff spot after annihilating the Seattle Seahawks last week.
He is 173-165-1 in his NFL career and hasn't finished above .500 since 2008 when he went 13-3. Since then, he is 45-63-1 in six-plus seasons as coach of the Rams and Tennessee Titans.
The soon-to-be-60-year-old Fisher is 5-6 in his career in the postseason, including a trip to Super Bowl XXXIV (1999) when he and the Titans lost to the St. Louis Rams.