The Tennessee Titans and Jeff Fisher have reached an agreement and sealed it by signing a contract which extends the coach’s work in Tennessee until 2011.

The deal will reportedly make Jeff Fisher the NFL's second-highest paid coach. The formal announcement is expected on Monday.

Fisher’s average salary will be around $6.5 million. Entering this season, Seattle's Mike Holmgren was the league’s highest-paid coach at $7.5 million for this season and Washington's Joe Gibbs was ranked No. 2 at around $6 million, although Redskins owner Daniel Snyder allegedly also has advanced Gibbs some money for the coach's NASCAR racing team.

Fisher was earning $5.2 million for this season, his option year. Fisher's position was in jeopardy last season when the Titans started 0-5, but the team rallied to win eight of its last 11 games. This season, Tennessee is 1-1. The Titans lost 22-20 to defending Super Bowl champions Indianapolis on Sunday.

On the whole, Tennessee has a 106-94 record under Fisher in the regular season, winning five of nine playoff games.

Coach Fisher led the Titans to a Super Bowl berth in 2000, but they were beaten by the St. Louis Rams.

With the resignation of Pittsburgh's Bill Cowher, Fisher now has the longest tenure as head coach with one team among active head coaches in the League. He is also one of the winningest active head coaches in the League, with a 105-93-0 (.530) record.

In 2006, the Titans finished a better-than-expected 8-8. The Tennessee Titans then exercized their right to extend his contract by a year, keeping him as the head coach through the 2007 season.

Throughout his tenure with the Tennessee Titans, Fisher has maintained a good relationship with his players, and is now almost universally known as “Coach Fish”.