NASHVILLE — Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher is neither old nor feeble.
Now 52, the hair atop his head is still thick and dark. His body remains trim, his wits sharp.
But he sounded anything but energetic or insightful after Sunday’s 17-6 loss to Jacksonville. The Titans having now lost five straight heading into Thursday night’s visit from Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts, Fisher appeared to be as downcast as his team.
“We’ve got to play perfect right now and we’re not doing that,” he said, apparently unaware that nobody other than Cam Newton plays perfect even most of the time. “We have got to find a way to win a football game.”
Yet it was in detailing how you win a game in December that Fisher began to wobble.