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Jeff Fisher Fires Warning Shot At Jared Cook Over ‘Out-Coached’ Comment

By Bryan Rose

Aug 8, 2013; Cleveland, OH, USA; St. Louis Rams head coach Jeff Fisher, right, shakes hands with St. Louis Rams tight end Jared Cook (89) during warm ups before a game against the Cleveland Browns at FirstEnergy Field. Mandatory Credit: Ron Schwane-USA TODAY Sports
Aug 8, 2013; Cleveland, OH, USA; St. Louis Rams head coach Jeff Fisher, right, shakes hands with St. Louis Rams tight end Jared Cook (89) during warm ups before a game against the Cleveland Browns at FirstEnergy Field. Mandatory Credit: Ron Schwane-USA TODAY Sports /
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St. Louis Rams head coach Jeff Fisher spoke to Jared Cook over comments suggesting the team was out-coached recently.

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Despite playing their third-string quarterback on Thursday night, the Arizona Cardinals came away with yet another victory, this time at the hands of the St. Louis Rams.

It was an ugly tilt and one the Rams likely should have won, especially being they were defending their home turf. Yet the Rams simply couldn’t get the ball into the end zone, prompting tight end Jared Cook to suggest the St. Louis Rams coaching staff was “out-coached”.

Understandably that didn’t sit well with head coach Jeff Fisher, who says he discussed the situation with Jared Cook and does not expect to hear a similar sentiment from the tight end moving forward.

“I know exactly what he was talking about,” Fisher said, via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “We discussed it, and I think if he had to do it all over again, he wouldn’t have gone there from the ‘out-coached’ standpoint. It’s not really what he meant as far as our discussion, communication this morning. It was kind of a one-fell-swoop: ‘Hey, we just got beat’ and included it all. He wasn’t being critical of coaching.”

While it appears as if Jeff Fisher is doing what he can to sugarcoat Cook’s comment, it seems pretty clear the tight end was blasting the coaching staff and their gameplan. Obviously Fisher and the St. Louis Rams would prefer this to not become a distraction nor do they want a player calling out their superiors, so it needed to be handled as was.

Fisher probably could have made it known that he likely ripped Cook a new one for the comments instead of acting like it was no big deal, however it seems as if he wanted to diffuse the situation in-house.

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