Oh, what a brain fart in the playoffs will do...
The San Diego Chargers yesterday fired coach Marty Schottenheimer, after a 14-2 season. The Chargers inexplicably blew a lead and lost their first playoff game to the Patriots, and it went downhill from there. The Bolts lost both their coordinators to head coaching jobs (OC Cam Cameron to Miami, DC Wade Phillips to Dallas), and Schottenheimer was being vetoed on his choice of defensive coordinator. It was a power struggle between Marty and general manager A.J. Smith, and management won.
If the Chargers had continued through the playoffs as they did in the regular season, they would have won a Super Bowl, and Marty could have retired on top.
Schottenheimer continues with a reputation as a great regular season coach, with little success in the playoffs. The Chargers look silly for firing a coach after going 14-2, after announcing a month earlier that said coach would be returning.
The Chargers are full of talent, but now must replace the head coach and both coordinators. Rumored candidates include Bill Parcells (we saw how that worked out in Dallas), and Pete Carroll (trying to get out of USC one step ahead of the NCAA).
4 comments:
I think hiring Parcells would be a major mistake, but how I would laugh if he went in there and took them very far!
I think Big Bill is done. Stranger things have happened, though, and a potential Super Bowl is very tempting.
I've heard rumor of Norv Turner in connection with this job, as well.
I hope this house of cards isn't about to fall. This is too good a team to mess up.
ok
Byner fumbles in Cleveland and Denver gets to Super Bowl
San Diego fumbles an interception and New England gets to AFC game.
Marty has gotten a bad rap, he hasnt' fumbled the ball...
14-2
wow
When you are in a position to lose 13 playoff games, you're doing something right. Most coaches don't make the playoffs 13 times.
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