The Coaching Deathwatch Thread

[rjs246]

Just in case anyone wants to read the article.

Unexpected.

[Munson]

It must suck to get fired when you have potentially the best running back of all time, in his prime, on your team.

[rjs246]

Getting fired at at any other time is a picnic, though, smart stuff.

[ice grillin you]

lol @ your hatred of munsin

i love it

[Feva]

Schottenheimer got shafted.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Schottenheimer got shafted.

Wrong:

His 5-13 playoff record has taken on a life of its own. The loss to the Patriots was his sixth straight in the postseason dating to 1993, and the ninth time a Schottenheimer-coached team lost its opening playoff game. His teams have failed four times to capitalize on the home-field advantage that comes with owning the AFC's No. 1 seed.

That's abysmal.  He can't coach his team when it counts.

[SunMo]

yeah, but why now?  something had to go down between him and AJ Smith.

it also doesn't make sense because they just lost their OC and DC, I would've thought they might want to keep some sort of continuity in the staff.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Schottenheimer farged Smith and didn't have the common courtesy to provide a reach-around.  Just classless.

[Feva]

Schottenheimer got shafted.

Wrong:

His 5-13 playoff record has taken on a life of its own. The loss to the Patriots was his sixth straight in the postseason dating to 1993, and the ninth time a Schottenheimer-coached team lost its opening playoff game. His teams have failed four times to capitalize on the home-field advantage that comes with owning the AFC's No. 1 seed.

That's abysmal.  He can't coach his team when it counts.

See... that's just it.  They're firing the guy for (mostly) his past issues.  5-13 has nothing to do with the Chargers. Being 0-2 does and losing once with the AFC top seed does.  Is that in itself enough to fire a coach after he just won 14 out of 16 games?  If he wasn't at odds with the GM... he'd probably still have a job.  Who the hell gets fired after a 14-2 season?

Even against the Patriots... that game wasn't really on him.  It was his own players making terrible mistakes.  Muffing punts, committing personal fouls when they just stopped the offense on 3rd down, the strip after the interception, etc... he coached well enough for them to win if the players hadn't disintegrated.  Now I will say that where Marty farged up in that game was challenging that turnover when it was such an obvious play.  That cost them a timeout which they ended up needing dearly at the end of the game.

[Sgt PSN]

Supposedly, the reason they elected to fire him now is because both coordinators have left for other jobs, not to mention that other assistants on the team seem to be looking to move elsewhere as well.  So I guess that the Chargers felt that since the coaching staff is being broken up then they might as well just clean house. 

[mussa]

marty ball gone already, wow!

[Drunkmasterflex]

His record in the playoffs is incredibly crappy, but the way he has lost in the playoffs has often not been his fault.  Either way he was shafted and it makes zero sense for a team that is so close to winning it all.  They have hardly any coaches that remain so they will have to install a new system, it may work like it did for TB, but...

[Drunkmasterflex]

Norv Turner was just named the head coach of the Chargers as per the bottom line on ESPN. 

[Diomedes]

He'll run LT and Turner into the ground.

[Butchers Bill]

Come on...there had to be better qualified candidates out these other than Turner and Phillips.  Right?   

Has coaching in football in general really declined that much in the past five or six years that these retreads get to continue to run franchises into the ground?