If you watched Amazon’s “All or Nothing” series that chronicled the regular season of the 2016 Rams, you no doubt noticed that the series seemed to really lean into the human side of coach Jeff Fisher’s firing.

In an interview with showrunner Shannon Furman and NFL Films coordinating producer Keith Cossrow, Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times dug into the differences between HBO’s “Hard Knocks” and “All or Nothing” — differences that were highlighted by the necessity to often focus on the most famous faces on the field.

Via LATimes.com:

“The story lines and characters are different, because we’ve got a lot of guys that no one’s heard of on ‘Hard Knocks,’ so it’s harder to get guys like Aaron Donald and Todd Gurley involved,” explained Furman. “On ‘All or Nothing,’ those are the people that you need to depend on.”

Beginning and ending the eight-part series with Fisher was not an accident, because according to Cossrow, his narrative was a kind of story they’d never told before — the story of what happens to a team after a losing season and a coaching overhaul.

Via LATimes.com:

Q: You begin the series with the firing of Jeff Fisher as coach. What went into the decision to start with that? Cossrow: We knew that was the elephant in the room, and the thing people were going to be most interested in. Are they going to show coach Fisher’s firing? We decided this is at the heart of the story we wanted to tell. We wanted to lay that out very clearly in those first five minutes: We have a story to tell about the NFL that’s never really been told before. It’s a story about what happens to those seven or eight teams every season whose coach gets fired, and everything gets turned upside down for all those people.

It’s true that the most intriguing moments on the show were the ones during which we got to see not only how emotional Fisher was, but how the players and coaches reacted to the news that he’d been fired. I think it’s safe to say that most of us assumed that everyone in the building was as fed up with Fisher as the fans were. “All or Nothing” proved that wasn’t necessarily the case.