"When you treat professional athletes like grown men, there's an expectation for them to actually behave like adults. That's always been Jeff Fisher's way of doing business as a football coach. As a former player, he understands what rules make sense and which ones are just plain stupid. It's one of the reasons the causes of Sunday's benching of Janoris Jenkins and Chris Givens go well beyond disappointing and race all the way to just plain stupid. We still don't know for sure what the two talented rookies did to get into Fisher's doghouse, but trust me on this, it wasn't for something trivial. The rules Fisher creates for the Rams would have probably worked quite well with teams like the old renegade Oakland Raiders, who could dance with the devil all week, then show up on Sunday ready to go to war. But even the renegade John Madden's Raiders had standards, among them being that showing up on time for work is a big deal. It's the same with Fisher's Rams, so straying out of bounds with the Rams' head coach takes some doing. And now Jenkins and Givens are going to find out the hard way that getting out of Fisher's doghouse might be even harder than getting into it." Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/sports/colu...cle_154d705a-ffec-5602-a299-9fe10df0b7dc.html
