Offensive Foul: Rams' Coach Gets Heat from Mom Over Colorful Language

IRVINE, CA - Coach Jeff Fisher today said the first episode of "Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Los Angeles Rams" "was great," but apologized to his mother for swearing.

"I was especially impressed with the talent -- the video and the shots and everything," Fisher said at the team's training camp at UC Irvine in his first meeting with reporters since the episode aired Tuesday night on HBO. "There are some extraordinary shots in there."

The five-part documentary series is "portraying our life at camp as it is," Fisher said.

"The players, on occasion, are going to have a little fun, which they should and they normally do," Fisher said. "None of it, from my perspective, is done for cameras. It's done just because that's the way they are.

"(Pro Bowl defensive tackle) Aaron Donald would have taken his shirt off and played ping-pong had (the cameras) been in there or had they not been in there."

Fisher said he expects future episodes to be "more specific," including looks at whether players will survive the first roster cut from 90 players to 75 and the regular-season 53-player roster.

Quarterback Jared Goff, who was shown on the episode not knowing that the sun rises in the east, said he "caught a lot of grief from my friends."

"But it was funny," said Goff, the first player chosen in the NFL draft."I didn't mind it.”

Fisher said he received a call from his mother, who called him Jeffrey.

"When I hear 'Jeffrey,' it's like 'Uh-oh, something went wrong,"' Fisher said. "So I said 'Sorry, mom, this is our world. I'll try to do better."

City News Service; Photo: Wikimedia Commons