Jeff Fisher and the Titans' Differences Ran Its Course

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Jeff Fisher won the battle. He could not win the war.

His exit from the Tennessee Titans in a news conference on Thursday afternoon was a capsule of his 17 years of leadership as the franchise's head coach. Charming. Determined. Warm. Abrupt. Open. Closed.

He is at peace now, he said.

It is time to move on, he insisted.

It was not such a time less than a month ago when Fisher and his quarterback, Vince Young, were in a one-two punch and jerk with Tennessee owner Bud Adams. Adams was forced to decide between the two men. Which one would stay? Which one would go?

It was Tennessee general manager Mike Reinfeldt and executive vice president Steve Underwood who convinced Adams in a meeting in Houston, where Adams lives, that it was Young who must get the boot.

Fisher won that battle.

But the war was much bigger.

 

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