Earlier this month, Hall of Famer and Rams great Eric Dickerson made it clear that he wasn't a Jeff Fisher fan. So much so that he would boycott games until changes were made. "I think this football team would do better without Jeff. That's just my opinion," he said at the time. "He's had five years to turn this team around and he's had all losing seasons."

And on Monday, hours after the Rams were throttled at home by the Atlanta Falcons, 42-14, Fisher was finally, mercifully, fired.

Dickerson's response is exactly what you'd expect.

"I'm not shocked," he told Fox Sports Radio. "I think it's something that had to happen. When you have the players giving up on you, you have to make a change. I've said this before: It's all about winning ... The Los Angeles Rams fans deserve more ... and I just want us to win.

"And I'm not hating on Jeff. I'm not mad at him, but I can't feel sorry for a guy who made $35 million coaching. He'll be OK. When they cut players, they say 'We're going in a different direction,' so we're going in a different direction also."

Dickerson wasn't done. He appeared on ESPN too.

"For lack of better words, the offense sucks," he explained, via Pro Football Talk. "I mean, he killed us, and that's what it came down to, and that's on him as a head coach. He put Rob Boras as offensive coordinator to run our offense, and our offense was horrible. I called it a high school offense and Todd Gurley called it middle school."

So what will it take to turn this into a winner? Dickerson has thoughts on that too.

"If I had a choice I would take Jim Harbaugh. I don't know if he wants to leave Michigan, that's on him, but I know what he did at Stanford," Dickerson said. "He turned the Niners around, he took Michigan to No. 5 in the country, he's done so much. You've got to look at a track record of a coach."

Dickerson's not alone in his thinking.

Meanwhile, it's no surprise that Fisher was fired, but the most perplexing part of his tenure was that it took this long for it to happen. He signed a two-year extension before the season, even though he'd never once had a winning record in nearly five seasons with the Rams.

For an idea of just how bad Fisher has been, consider this: Fisher's teams have a .430 winning percentage, 26th in the league since 2012. Just as depressing: The Rams' point differential from 2012-2015 is -145 (it has been negative each season), and that ranks 25th in the league.

He leaves the organization with a 31-45-1 record, and in his NFL coaching career, he has 165 losses. That's tied with Dan Reeves for the worst mark in league history. Perhaps that was part of the reason Fisher was canned when he was; with the Rams on a short week, and facing the Seahawks in Seattle on Thursday, owner Stan Kroenke wanted to at least spare him the indignity of becoming the league's losingest coach right before losing his job.

This tweet sent in the middle of last Sunday's loss to the Patriots pretty much says it all: