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Alex Marvez says Titans head coach Jeff Fisher would not be where he is today without his former quarterback Steve McNair.
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" This is Alex -- as a foxsports.com. With a mark that meant it about Steve McNair and Jeff Fisher. The NFL's great head coaches usually link to one quarterback. Tom Landry and Roger Staubach. Bill Walsh had Joe Montana. Bill Belichick has Tom Brady in for eleven seasons Jeff Fisher had the luxury of coaching these. After reflected on some of their special moment Monday during a news conference about the winners -- this past week. Fisher remembered how McNair -- a 3229. Overtime victory over the New York Giants back in 2002. Despite not having practiced the previous week because of rib injury. -- recalled how McNair busted 71 yard run on a broken plate to defeat Tampa Bay in 1998. And of course who could forget McNair heroics as he almost like Tennessee to a wild comeback victory over Saint Louis in Super Bowl 34. All of this was made possible because Fisher and team management became convinced. Pam McNair with the right player to select with the third pick in the 1995 draft. Back then the Titans -- the Houston Oilers and Fisher was entering its first full season as an NFL head coach. Over the next four years the franchise to play in three different stadiums and three different cities before finally settling into the LP field -- national. By that time pitchers patient tutelage of McNair has paid dividends. McNair was blossoming into one of the NFL's top quarterback and you provided leadership as the Titans were the -- of the NFL. And the -- are not worked out pitcher probably wouldn't be entering his fifteenth season coaching the Titans. That's a longer tenure right now with one team and any other current head to. More than anything else Monday special wanted to stress that McNair should be remembered for the things he did on the field and in the community. There are some fans who won't be able to draw that distinction because of the circumstances surrounding the -- death. But here's one thing that can't be questioned McNair made the Titans the better team and Jeff Fisher a better had kept the ballots -- as a foxsports.com."
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