Jeff Fisher thinks the media is making things up about how bad the Rams are

Jeff Fisher has found any number of excuses for the Los Angeles Rams’ disappointing 4-8 season, their first one back in Southern California after more than two decades away. This week, he found a new boogeyman to pin his problems on: the media.

Fisher and general manager Les Snead spent the latter half of the week saying nice things about their working relationship and trying to patch up a rift that emerged publicly when Fisher claimed not to be aware that Snead had also received a two-year contract extension along with the coach and was directly using personnel decisions as an excuse for the team’s record.

The infighting among the Rams leadership was detailed further in a report from the MMQB’s Albert Breer last Thursday, who cited sources calling the relationship between Fisher and Snead “toxic.” A source cited in that report also said the atmosphere has become so problematic that internally it’s referred to as “Rams junior high.”

That’s where Fisher took issue, accusing someone at the publication of making that up.

“That came from either the editor or the writer, but I didn’t think the ‘junior high’ thing came from an unnamed source,” he said Thursday evening.

It’s one thing to deny a report, something Fisher does regularly. It’s quite another matter to suggest that it’s been completely fabricated. And it’s not made up. Breer made it clear in his report that “some in the building” are referring to it as that, i.e. more than one person.

There’s also the matter of fact that Breer and the MMQB have unassailable credibility, unlike, say, a certain head coach at the head of a “junior high” operation.

Fisher wasn’t just blaming the media. He was also promising a witch hunt in the building, trying to find whoever talked to Breer.

“Honestly, I don’t know where this came from . . . I’ll find out. In our business, unnamed sources, they’re not good. If we’ve got sources within the organization that are speaking, then we’ll address it,” he said.

One thing’s for sure, if things weren’t difficult enough for the working relationships among the Rams leadership, it will be now with a head coach trying to sniff out a leak.

“I don’t pay as close of attention to those as you do. I’m more concerned about the Falcons,” Fisher added.

Fisher being unconcerned with what’s being said about him and his team in the media doesn’t hold water either. We saw how that played out with the Eric Dickerson saga and bleed into the mysterious leak that Fisher had signed a contract extension earlier this season, which Fisher denied.

The Rams have four games left to play. There are plenty who think that Fisher, barring some miraculous turnaround, could be gone at the end of the season, regardless of his extension. If he does end up staying around, you can bet the Rams will only have more problems because of it.