Jeff Fisher is on the hot seat in Tennessee, where owner Bud Adams turned up the flames on his coach this week.
The Titans, who missed sending the Super Bowl into overtime by 1 yard after the 1999 season, are 1-4, and Adams isn't happy about it.
"I'm very disappointed," said Adams after Tennessee's loss at home to Washington last week. "I came in here thinking we were going to get a win, and we didn't look very good. Right now I'm not very happy with what we're putting on the field, and it looks to me like we're getting out-coached."
That's about as blunt as it gets for a coach.
"We're not looking good; we're not playing like we should, I don't think," Adams went on. "We should be better than we are right now. We're 1-4, and I'm not happy about it."
Adams, criticizing his coach for the first time, said he did not want to make changes to the staff "right now."
Tennessee has lost four consecutive games and six of seven since last season.
Revisionist history
The last time Gregg Williams coached in Houston, 15,131 showed up to watch the Oilers play their final game in the Astrodome in 1996. He was an Oilers assistant then. Today, he returns to Houston as Buffalo's head coach and more than 69,000 will turn out in Reliant Stadium to watch the Texans and Bills.
Williams was the Oilers-turned-Titans defensive coordinator when they pulled the Music City Miracle on Buffalo in a 1999 playoff game, on a lateral pass on a kickoff return with no time remaining.
Williams called it "the greatest moment of my coaching career. At least it was, until I was hired by the Bills and realized it was an illegal forward pass instead of a lateral."
Psych jobs
Those two sports psychologists the Jaguars hired turned out not to be licensed psychologists and a complaint was filed against them with the state of Florida.
Nevertheless, Jacksonville will continue to use them.
The Steelers no longer have a sports psychologist. Kevin Elko of Pittsburgh worked for them for years when Tom Donahoe was their director of football operations. The two men are friends. Elko now works for Cleveland and New Orleans, among other pro and college teams, and was on the sidelines with the Browns and Saints when they played the Steelers the past two weeks.
The Steelers use an out-of-town sports psychologist to test college players before the draft. According to Kevin Colbert, their director of football operations, if they feel a player needs to talk to someone, they will arrange for him to meet with a local psychologist.
Quick slants
Jacksonville has won three games in a row. Every team that won four consecutive last year at any point in the season made the playoffs.
Over the past three games against the Patriots, Priest Holmes rushed for 180 yards, LaDainian Tomlinson for 217 and Ricky Williams for 105. The Steelers ran Jerome Bettis eight times in New England.
Kansas City has scored 85 points in the fourth quarter, more than the combined fourth-quarter scores by the Jets, Ravens, Steelers, Bengals, Texans, Giants, Redskins and Cowboys. The NFL record is 272 fourth-quarter points.
San Diego's defense has allowed 11 points in the fourth quarter. The Chiefs play today in San Diego.
Coach Brian Billick on his youthful Ravens: "Fortunately, they're still afraid of me where I can put the fear of God in them pretty quickly and snap them back into shape."
On Warren Sapp's official Web site, QB Killa, Cleveland quarterback Tim Couch's photo is posted under the section "The Hit List." Couch: "That's real nice to look forward to."
Ricky Williams has fumbled 23 times in 43 NFL games. In five games with the Dolphins, he's fumbled three times and lost two.
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