Former Titan: This is very unlike Jeff Fisher
"He must have really pissed Fisher off something nasty..."
Jeff Fisher lost an assistant coach last weekend to USC and was more than happy to restate his case against Lane Kiffin on the Jim Rome radio show earlier today:
"Before I heard anything from Lane, my assistant coach told me he was leaving. That's the timeline and that's the way it went down and it is unprofessional. We were deserving of a phone call well before this process started and we didn't get that phone call."
As for the idea that the lawsuit is being filed because of Kiffin's messy divorce from the University of Tennessee, Fisher has this to say:
"I think it's ridiculous. I think it's absurd. They're two separate entities."
"The lawsuit and our reaction was a direct result of recent events that took place last weekend."
That would be a breach of contract lawsuit against USC.
Former UCLA and Tennessee Titans receiver Drew Bennett said earlier this week that this reaction from Fisher is quite out of character, as told to the 2 Live Stews on Sporting News radio:
"He must have really pissed Fisher off something nasty because this is very unlike Fisher. Fisher's the kind of guy that, throughout my six years there, he never wanted anybody to know that they pissed him off. Even Saturday night meetings before games, he'd be very hesitant to tell the team if another coach said something that made him upset. So the fact this is coming out as public as it has and the fact that he's going after him like this, not just letting it kind of go with a stern warning, means Fisher is pissed."
Not sure how a "stern warning" would work in Lane Kiffin's world. Wait, yes I do. This would be the reaction:
And while Fisher claims this has nothing to do with Kiffin's exit from Knoxville, the lawsuit cites four former University of Tennessee assistant coaches that were under contract when hired away by Kiffin as evidence of prior knowledge and disregard of contract law within the state.
A great local public relations move by the Titans... or maybe Jeff Fisher is just "pissed."
It's likely a combination of both.
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