The Fisher/Chow marriage: Doomed from the start
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The Jeff Fisher/Norm Chow divorce was finalized this week. As the case with many marriages that end, Fisher decided to give his ex another try by hiring Mike Heimerdinger as the team’s new/old offensive coordinator.
So what went wrong with the Chow/Fisher marriage? How did one of the game’s well-renowned offensive masterminds fail in his attempt to bring his magic to Nashville?
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