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The Rams Move to L.A. and Jeff Fisher Gets All New Age-y and Weird

"This is a football. This is the end zone. This is where you're supposed to be."
"Life is like a box of touchdowns: you know you're probably not going to get anything out of it if you're a Rams fan." Photo credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

Jeff Fisher is the gift that keeps on giving. While 31 other NFL teams get the benefit of seeing the Los Angeles Rams' mustachioed head coach on their schedule, fans get comedy gold.

This year, the Rams are 1-1, but they can't score touchdowns. They haven't scored a single one through those two games. They've got onlynine points total.

So how does Fisher, a leader of men, fix this? Maybe drop Case Keenum and start that fancy No. 1 pick they got at quarterback? Find a way to give Todd Gurley some breathing room so he can actually run in space instead of having to dodge tacklers at every turn?

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No, like some kind of screenwriter of a slapstick comedy, Fisher had the Rams offensive players go through some weird visualization technique.

First, according to therams.com, Fisher said on his radio show that he might hold a sleepover in the end zone just so his offense knows what it's like to be there again.

"I told them this morning, I was running around the building with the move and everything, looking for some things that I hadn't been able to find yet for my office," he said. "I found a box, and I showed it to them—it was full of touchdowns. So we watched some touchdowns today."

Boxes full of touchdowns. End zone sleepovers. The Rams are all about weird symbolism. So why stop there. Don't just say it, do it.

Let tight end Lance Kendricks describe practice Wednesday: "He hands us the ball and he's like, 'Here.' Then he makes us stand in the end zone, and he's like, 'You see this? This is a football. This is the end zone. This is where you're supposed to be.' So we kind of laugh at it, but I know he's kind of serious."

Jeff Fisher is one more bad week away from telling his offense that the football just wants to go home. Why don't you want it to go home, guys?! It wants to go home!