Schottenheimer fired

[longtimefirsttime]

It's not often you go 14-2 and lose your job.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=clayton_john&id=2763623

[TigerNick]

That really sucks. Marty didn't cause all the turnovers and incomplete passes due to dropped passes by the players vs the Pats. I'd love to see Marty back with the Browns next season. Look for alot of the Charger players now leave via free agency or demand to be traded. Good job Smith. Sit back now and watch the down fall of the San Diego Chargers as they will now drop into the league of the Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns and Co.

[CarlE]

What a couple of morons out there. Spanos and Smith. Good luck next year, Frick and Frack. I hope you finish 6-10 and nowhere near the playoffs. Dumb-asses.

[monte81]

What a shame---I wish they would of fired him last week so my cowboys could of hired him!!! WOW they were 3-13 before he got there.

They do havethe best player in the game still on their team--LT is better than any RB since Barry Sanders!

[MUCSteelers5xSuperChamp]

CarlE,

No one in Charger country saw this coming. Had not Nate Kaeding missed a potential 56-yard field goal that could have forced overtime in their AFC divisional playoff against New England...this discussion of Martin Edward Schottenheimer being fired would not have been conceived. This was Schottenheimer's FOURTH team that clinched homefield advantage throughout the playoffs and they failed to win the AFC title (1986 Cleveland, 1995 and 1997 Kansas City, 2006 San Diego).

This was the Chargers best chance to win their second AFC championship since the 1994 season and they had the firepower to do it.

Now with their pride being on the line...who will they turn to in an attempt to keep the Chargers in tact?

*By the way, Schottenheimer didn't deserve this. He turned around a 9-7 Chargers team to the best record in franchise history in 14-3. His firing in my eyes was too darn premature.

[MTown]

Keno, lots of people saw this coming. Marty and the GM were never on the same page and that's why when Marty got his extension it was for only 1 year and had talked about walking away at that time. This GM didn't hire Marty and it's typical in pro sports for the front office to bring in their own guy to coach the team.

Unprecedented because of his record this year but not unexpected.

[MUCSteelers5xSuperChamp]

MTown,

Spanos lied to the face of Schottenheimer and he wasn't aware of it. Schottenheimer didn't see it coming and Spanos is a low down, dirty, sardonic, putrid, arrogant, nasty, old, slob!

How many more failing, uncool, crazy, knocked-undoing, pungent, sadists can there be out there in the NFL?

[MTown]

Help me out, Keno....what did Spano say to Marty that was a lie?

[DAWGH8R]

Would have loved to see Marty ball in Pittsburgh !:gogogo:

[MUCSteelers5xSuperChamp]

MTown,

Spanos gave Schottenheimer his blessing so many times that he would still be the lead man in Charger country :angel: but stabbed him in the back when he didn't see it coming :devil: .

Basically...Spanos lied to the face of Schottenheimer. Big, ignorant, thoughtless, crazed, heartless, awful, stupid, sullen, malevolent, oppressive, treacherous, horrendous, embittered, rash, failing, uncool, chump, knocked, egotistical, rude, inconsistent, naughty, gruesome bolt of lightning.

When you say someone is the lead man, your intentions had better be good. Nothing makes me meaner than someone stabbing you in the back and you don't see it coming. And Schottenheimer never saw it coming. That's the shame of it. If someone lied to your face and you didn't see it coming, wouldn't you feel stabbed in your back?

[obie7661]

...Marty Schottenheimer, the Chargers’ head coach, was unexpectedly fired late Monday night. By Tuesday morning, U.S.C. Coach Pete Carroll was being asked about the opening. Through a spokesman, Carroll said, “I’m not talking about it.”

Once the coach of the Jets and the Patriots, he has turned down several chances to return to the National Football League, even to jobs that appeared more desirable than the one in San Diego...



http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/sports/football/14chargers.html?ref=football

[Smitty]

... it's typical in pro sports for the front office to bring in their own guy to coach the team....

THIS is the bottom line; and it's quite typical in all lines of business, not just pro sports.

[MUCSteelers5xSuperChamp]

CLICK THIS LINK--READ YOURSELF

http://fireschottenheimer.com/home/

[longtimefirsttime]

They wasted no time in hiring Norv Turner.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2771126

[DAWGH8R]

They'll be sorry !!!

[longtimefirsttime]

How does a guy who's 58-82-1 with one playoff appearance in nine NFL seasons get yet another chance?

[DAWGH8R]

I would have taken my chances with McDANIELS over Turner !!!