"After a weekend of duck hunting, Jeff Fisher is back to team hunting.

Fisher wouldn't be visiting Rams Park on Sunday if he wasn't seriously considering becoming the next head coach of the St. Louis Rams. Then again, NFL sources tell the Post-Dispatch that he also wouldn't be visiting if his mind was made up.

"Unless something didn't work for the Rams or for Jeff when they met Thursday, it was always planned that there would be a follow-up in St. Louis," a source very close to Fisher said.

When Fisher visited with Miami earlier in the week, Dolphins officials actually interviewed him outside of Miami. But the Dolphins wanted Fisher to see their facility, thus, the splashy helicopter ride to the facilities. At that point, it became clear to Fisher that the only fair way to totally evaluate St. Louis was to see the Rams' facilities as well.

Before spending the 2011 season out of football, Fisher had known only the Tennessee franchise for 17 seasons. So, as he started on the process of looking for a new team to coach in 2012, he had few reference points.

For a variety of reasons, Fisher decided early on that Jacksonville and Tampa Bay wouldn't be fits.

In Jacksonville, there was the uncertainty of a new owner in central Illinois businessman Shahid Khan, plus the fact that Fisher didn't particularly want to go back to the same division — the AFC South — in which the Titans play. So, he quickly narrowed his choices to Miami and St. Louis, and he's expected to choose by midweek or so."