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Marty Schottenheimer 
Schottenheimer signing an autograph in August 2006. Date of birth September 23, 1943 Place of birth Canonsburg, Pennsylvania Position(s) Head coach
LinebackerCollege Pittsburgh NFL Draft 1965 / Round 4/ Pick 49 AFL Draft 1965 / Round 7 AFL All-Star 1965 Awards 2011 UFL Coach of the Year
2004 AP NFL Coach of Year
2004 Pro Football Weekly
NFL Coach of Year
2004 Maxwell Football Club
NFL Coach of Year
1995 UPI NCL COY (AFC)
1986 UPI AFC
Coach of the YearCareer record 200-126-1 (Regular Season)
5-13 (Postseason)
205-139-1 (Overall)Championships won 2011 UFL Championship Stats Playing stats DatabaseFootball Coaching stats Pro Football Reference Coaching stats DatabaseFootball Team(s) as a player 1965-1968
1969
1970AFL Buffalo Bills
AFL Boston Patriots
NFL Boston PatriotsTeam(s) as a coach/administrator 1974
1975-1976
1977
1978-1979
1980-1984
1984-1988
1989-1998
2001
2002-2006
2011-presentPortland Storm (WFL)
(linebackers coach)
New York Giants
(linebackers coach)
New York Giants
(defensive coordinator)
Detroit Lions
(linebackers coach)
Cleveland Browns
(defensive coordinator)
Cleveland Browns
(head coach)
Kansas City Chiefs
(head coach)
Washington Redskins
(head coach)
San Diego Chargers
(head coach)
Virginia Destroyers
(head coach/general manager)Martin Edward "Marty" Schottenheimer (pronounced /ˈʃɒtənhaɪmər/; born September 23, 1943) is the current head coach of the Virginia Destroyers of the United Football League. Over his career, he has served as head coach of the Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins, and San Diego Chargers. He has the most wins of any NFL coach since 1966 to never coach a team in a Super Bowl (which was first held in that year). He was fired from his head coaching position with the San Diego Chargers in 2007, after leading the Chargers to a 14–2 record but a disappointing second round loss after a first round bye in the playoffs.
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Pro football playing career
Schottenheimer was born in McDonald, Pennsylvania. Marty attended high school at Fort Cherry High School in McDonald, Pennsylvania. After college, Schottenheimer, a linebacker, was selected in the fourth round of the 1965 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Colts and in the seventh round of the 1965 American Football League draft by the Buffalo Bills. He signed with the Bills and spent the next four (1965, 1966, 1967, and 1968) seasons with Buffalo, including the Bills' 1965 AFL Championship season, when he was selected to the AFL All-Star Team. In 1969, he joined the Boston Patriots and spent the next two seasons with the Pats. He was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1971 but was traded again to the Colts before the beginning of the 1971 season. He retired from football in 1971 and spent the next several years working in the real estate industry. Schottenheimer credits his professional playing career as being his inspiration for coaching.
Pro football coaching career
Schottenheimer's professional coaching career began in 1974 when he became linebackers coach for the Portland Storm of the World Football League. In 1975 he was hired as a linebackers coach for the NFL's New York Giants and in 1977 became defensive coordinator. Schottenheimer spent 1978 and 1979 as the linebackers coach for the NFL's Detroit Lions.
Cleveland Browns
In 1980, he was hired as the defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns. Schottenheimer became Cleveland's head coach midway through the 1984 season, replacing fired head coach Sam Rutigliano. Schottenheimer would remain with the Browns until 1988, amassing a 44-27 (.620) regular-season record and a 2-4 (.333) mark in the playoffs, including four playoff appearances, three AFC Central Division titles, and two trips to the AFC Championship Game (both against the Denver Broncos).
Kansas City Chiefs
Schottenheimer spent 10 seasons as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs from 1989 to 1998 recording an impressive 101-58-1 regular season record (.634) including three division titles, seven playoff appearances, and a trip to the AFC Championship game in 1993, losing to the Buffalo Bills. After a disappointing 7–9 season in 1998, Schottenheimer resigned as Chiefs head coach on January 11, 1999.
Washington Redskins
After working as a football analyst for ESPN from 1999 to 2000, Schottenheimer was hired as head coach of the Washington Redskins for the 2001 season. Schottenheimer's Redskins became the first team in NFL history to win five consecutive games immediately after losing its first five games. The Redskins would win eight of their final eleven games to narrowly miss the post season. Despite this momentum, in a controversial move, Daniel Snyder, the owner of the Redskins, fired Schottenheimer on January 13, 2002 after just one 8–8 season to make room for former University of Florida head coach Steve Spurrier, under whom Washington went 12-20 in the next two seasons, with his best season being 7-9 in 2002.
San Diego Chargers
The San Diego Chargers hired Schottenheimer as their 13th head coach on January 29, 2002. Schottenheimer posted a 47–33 record (.588) with the Chargers. His success didn't come immediately, as the team posted a 4–12 record in 2003, thereby "earning" the first overall pick in the draft (this was the last time that a team with the worst record in the NFL kept its head coach the following season, even considering the 3 other 4–12 teams that season replaced their head coaches, Oakland, Arizona, and the New York Giants hiring Norv Turner, Dennis Green, and Tom Coughlin, respectively). He was named NFL Coach of the Year for the 2004 NFL season. Schottenheimer led the team to 2 playoff appearances, his 12th and 13th as a head coach. However, both appearances resulted in disappointing losses to the underdog New York Jets in overtime in 2005 and the New England Patriots in 2007, bringing his playoff record to 5–13.
Schottenheimer was abruptly fired by San Diego on February 12, 2007. Reasons for his firing include a strained relationship with general manager A.J. Smith, which reached a breaking point when 4 assistants (Cam Cameron, Wade Phillips, Rob Chudzinski and Greg Manusky) left for positions with other teams. It should be noted that these coaches left to pursue higher level opportunities with other teams, instead of merely making a lateral move to another team in which they would be doing the very same thing they were doing at San Diego.
Jim Trotter, of the San Diego Union Tribune, also believes that Schottenheimer's insistence that his brother, Kurt Schottenheimer, replace Phillips as the defensive coordinator further strained the relationship between team president Dean Spanos and Schottenheimer. Spanos had always been against the idea of allowing relatives to be on the same coaching staff, even though Schottenheimer's son Brian was the Chargers' quarterbacks coach. Schottenheimer even went as far to book a flight to San Diego for his brother, Kurt, against Spanos' wishes. This act of defiance increased the gap between Spanos and Schottenheimer.[1]
Dean Spanos released a statement saying "Our fans deserve to know what changed for me over the last month. When I decided to move ahead with Marty Schottenheimer in mid-January, I did so with the expectation that the core of his fine coaching staff would remain intact. Unfortunately, that did not prove to be the case, and the process of dealing with these coaching changes convinced me that we simply could not move forward with such dysfunction between our head coach and general manager. In short, this entire process over the last month convinced me beyond any doubt that I had to act to change this untenable situation and create an environment where everyone at Charger Park would be pulling in the same direction and working at a championship level. I expect exactly that from our entire Charger organization in 2007."[2]
Schottenheimer is still owed $4 million for the final year of his contract, as the firing was "without cause".[3] Schottenheimer was replaced as San Diego head coach by Norv Turner - coincidentally the last full-time head coach the Redskins had before Schottenheimer's arrival.
Virginia Destroyers (UFL)
In March 2011 the Virginia Destroyers hired Schottenheimer as their new head coach at the age of 67. After going 3-1 in a shortened regular season, his Destroyers earned a berth in the 2011 Championship game and the right to host the game. On October 21, 2011, the Virginia Destroyers defeated the two-time defending UFL Champion Las Vegas Locos 17-3. It is Coach Schottenheimer's first ever championship as a coach. [1]
Television work
Soon after being replaced as head coach of the San Diego Chargers, he was hired by ESPN to work as an NFL Insider on the network, returning to a role he had served in between his coaching stints with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Washington Redskins. He's recently been seen on SportsCenter and NFL Live.
Head coaching record
Team Year Regular Season Post Season Won Lost Ties Win % Finish Won Lost Win % Result CLE 1984 4 4 0 .500 3rd in AFC Central - - - - CLE 1985 8 8 0 .500 1st in AFC Central 0 1 .000 Lost to Miami Dolphins in Divisional Game. CLE 1986 12 4 0 .750 1st in AFC Central 1 1 .500 Lost to Denver Broncos in AFC Championship Game. CLE 1987 10 5 0 .667 1st in AFC Central 1 1 .500 Lost to Denver Broncos in AFC Championship Game. CLE 1988 10 6 0 .625 2nd in AFC Central 0 1 .000 Lost to Houston Oilers in AFC Wild-Card Game. CLE Total 44 27 0 .620 2 4 .333 KC 1989 8 7 1 .533 2nd in AFC West - - - - KC 1990 11 5 0 .688 2nd in AFC West 0 1 .000 Lost to Miami Dolphins in Wild Card Game. KC 1991 10 6 0 .625 2nd in AFC West 1 1 .500 Lost to Buffalo Bills in Divisional Game. KC 1992 10 6 0 .625 2nd in AFC West 0 1 .000 Lost to San Diego Chargers in Wild Card Game. KC 1993 11 5 0 .688 1st in AFC West 2 1 .667 Lost to Buffalo Bills in AFC Championship. KC 1994 9 7 0 .563 2nd in AFC West 0 1 .000 Lost to Miami Dolphins in AFC Wild-Card Game. KC 1995 13 3 0 .813 1st in AFC West 0 1 .000 Lost to Indianapolis Colts in AFC Divisional Game. KC 1996 9 7 0 .563 2nd in AFC West - - - - KC 1997 13 3 0 .813 1st in AFC West 0 1 .000 Lost to Denver Broncos in AFC Divisional Game. KC 1998 7 9 0 .438 4th in AFC West - - - - KC Total 101 58 1 .635 3 7 .300 WAS 2001 8 8 0 .500 2nd in NFC East - - - - WAS Total 8 8 0 .500 - - - - SD 2002 8 8 0 .500 3rd in AFC West - - - - SD 2003 4 12 0 .250 4th in AFC West - - - - SD 2004 12 4 0 .750 1st in AFC West 0 1 .000 Lost to New York Jets in AFC Wild-Card Game. SD 2005 9 7 0 .563 3rd in AFC West - - - - SD 2006 14 2 0 .875 1st in AFC West 0 1 .000 Lost to New England Patriots in AFC Divisional Game. SD Total 47 33 0 .588 0 2 .000 Total[4] 200 126 1 .613 5 13 .278 Schottenheimer coaching tree
Schottenheimer was heavily influenced by Lou Saban, his first professional head coach in the American Football League. In turn, several current NFL Head Coaches trace their lineage back to Marty Schottenheimer on his Coaching tree:
Schottenheimer gave many Head Coaches their first coaching jobs. All of these coaches have coached under Schottenheimer:
- Bill Cowher, Pittsburgh Steelers
- Gunther Cunningham, Kansas City Chiefs
- Tony Dungy, Indianapolis Colts
- Lindy Infante, Green Bay Packers (1988–1991)
- Mike McCarthy, Green Bay Packers
- Herman Edwards, Kansas City Chiefs
- Cam Cameron, Baltimore Ravens
- Wade Phillips, Dallas Cowboys
- Tony Sparano, Miami Dolphins
His son Brian Schottenheimer is the New York Jets offensive coordinator. When the Jets defeated the San Diego Chargers in the 2009 Divisional Playoffs, Jets Head Coach Rex Ryan sent Marty the game ball as a friendly gesture regarding the team that had fired him three years earlier.[5]
Marty's younger brother Kurt Schottenheimer coached the Green Bay Packers' secondary (2006–2008) before he was let go, along with the majority of the defensive coaching staff, after a disappointing 2008 season.
See also
- Other American Football League players
- Marty Ball, a type of coaching that is known as being conservative.
References
- ^ "Marty's escape route | The San Diego Union-Tribune". Signonsandiego.com. 2007-02-18. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070218/news_lz1s18martys.html. Retrieved 2010-09-27.
- ^ "> San Diego Chargers - Statement from Chargers president Dean Spanos". SignOnSanDiego.com. 2007-02-12. http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/chargers/20070212-1816-statement.html. Retrieved 2010-09-27.
- ^ Acee, Kevin (2007-02-13). "> San Diego Chargers - Chargers give Schottenheimer the ax". SignOnSanDiego.com. http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/chargers/20070213-9999-1n13marty.html. Retrieved 2010-09-27.
- ^ "Marty Schottenheimer Record, Statistics, and Category Ranks". Pro-Football-Reference.com. 1943-09-23. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/coaches/SchoMa0.htm. Retrieved 2010-09-27.
- ^ "Ryan sends game ball from playoff win to Marty Schottenheimer". Nfl.com. 2010-01-21. http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d815e1263&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true. Retrieved 2010-09-27.
Sporting positions Preceded by
Dick ModzelewskiCleveland Browns Defensive Coordinator
1980 – October 22, 1984Succeeded by
Dave AdolphCleveland Browns head coaches Paul Brown (1946–1962) • Blanton Collier (1963–1970) • Nick Skorich (1971–1974) • Forrest Gregg (1975–1977) • Dick Modzelewski # (1977) • Sam Rutigliano (1978–1984) • Marty Schottenheimer (1984–1988) • Bud Carson (1989–1990) • Jim Shofner # (1990) • Bill Belichick (1991–1995) • No team (1996–1998) • Chris Palmer (1999–2000) • Butch Davis (2001–2004) • Terry Robiskie # (2004) • Romeo Crennel (2005–2008) • Eric Mangini (2009–2010) • Pat Shurmur (2011– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.Dallas Texans / Kansas City Chiefs head coaches Hank Stram (1960–1974) • Paul Wiggin (1975–1977) • Tom Bettis # (1977) • Marv Levy (1978–1982) • John Mackovic (1983–1986) • Frank Gansz (1987–1988) • Marty Schottenheimer (1989–1998) • Gunther Cunningham (1999–2000) • Dick Vermeil (2001–2005) • Herman Edwards (2006–2008) • Todd Haley (2009– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.Boston Braves / Boston Redskins / Washington Redskins head coaches Lud Wray (1932) • William Dietz (1933–1934) • Eddie Casey (1935) • Ray Flaherty (1936–1942) • Dutch Bergman (1943) • Dudley DeGroot (1944–1945) • Turk Edwards (1946–1948) • John Whelchel (1949) • Herman Ball (1949–1951) • Dick Todd (1951) • Curly Lambeau (1952–1953) • Joe Kuharich (1954–1958) • Mike Nixon (1959–1960) • Bill McPeak (1961–1965) • Otto Graham (1966–1968) • Vince Lombardi (1969) • Bill Austin (1970) • George Allen (1971–1977) • Jack Pardee (1978–1980) • Joe Gibbs (1981–1992) • Richie Petitbon (1993) • Norv Turner (1994–2000) • Terry Robiskie (2000) • Marty Schottenheimer (2001) • Steve Spurrier (2002–2003) • Joe Gibbs (2004–2007) • Jim Zorn (2008–2009) • Mike Shanahan (2010– )
Boston Braves / Boston Redskins / Washington Redskins General Managers Los Angeles / San Diego Chargers head coaches Sid Gillman (1960–1969) • Charlie Waller (1969–1970) • Sid Gillman (1971) • Harland Svare (1971–1973) • Ron Waller (1973) • Tommy Prothro (1974–1978) • Don Coryell (1978–1986) • Al Saunders (1986–1988) • Dan Henning (1989–1991) • Bobby Ross (1992–1996) • Kevin Gilbride (1997–1998) • June Jones # (1998) • Mike Riley (1999–2001) • Marty Schottenheimer (2002–2006) • Norv Turner (2007– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.Stadiums Head Coaches Key Personnel Head Coach/General Manager: Marty Schottenheimer • President: Ed ReynoldsUFL Championship
Game Appearances (2)2009 • 2010Seasons (3) 2009 • 2010 • 2011Current League Affiliation United Football LeaguePlayers Las Vegas Locomotives roster • Omaha Nighthawks roster • Sacramento Mountain Lions roster • List of current UFL team rostersHead coaches General managers Fassel (LV) • Rick Mueller (OMA) • Green (SAC) • Schottenheimer (VA)Owners Bill Hambrecht & Rob Ryan (LV) • Zach Nelson (OMA) • Paul Pelosi (SAC) • Bill Mayer (VA)Front office Commissioner: Michael Huyghue — Founders: Bill Hambrecht • Tim Armstrong — Chairman: Henry BienenSeasons 2009 • 2010 • 2011Championships 2009 • 2010 • 2011Drafts 2009 • 2010 • 2011Defunct teams New York Sentinels → Hartford Colonials (2009–10)Buffalo Bills 1965 AFL Champions Joe Auer | Stew Barber | Glenn Bass | Al Bemiller | Butch Byrd | Wray Carlton | Hagood Clarke | Paul Costa | Tom Day | Elbert Dubenion | Jim Dunaway | Booker Edgerson | Charley Ferguson | George Flint | Pete Gogolak | Bill Groman | Floyd Hudlow | Dick Hudson | Harry Jacobs | Tom Janik | Billy Joe | Tom Keating | Jack Kemp | Daryle Lamonica | Bill Laskey | Paul Maguire | Ron McDole | Dudley Meredith | Pete Mills | Joe O'Donnell | Bo Roberson | Ed Rutkowski | George Saimes | Henry Schmidt | Marty Schottenheimer | Tom Sestak | Billy Shaw | Bobby Smith | Donnie Stone | Mike Stratton | Gene Sykes | Jack Tracey | Ernie Warlick | Charley Warner
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