Schottenheimer Fired!
 

ESPN reporting

Ouch.

FAX

Are you pulling our collective lariat?

no f'n way....AFTER they let both coordinators walk????


reeruns

No sh*t?

just saw it on espn

wow.

This is great news for the Chiefs!

Do the have Tanner's in San Diego?

man....some epic backstage drama in the Chargers franchise...I wonder if the coordinators left because of marty...

thats what 14 wins do for you!

On Espn right now!!! Nice to see the Chargers wise up! Now if the Chiefs would follow suit?

Good Bye Marty, You were and always will be a chock artist...

fuck off you worthless assclown...

What a loser, he's been fired more times than I have.
Actually, that's pretty brutal after a 14-2 season.

Phillips & Cameron left because they were hired as head coaches, not because of Marty.

They should hire Herm! We'll take a fourth for him.

I just turned on ESPN and they had a picture of Marty, but the sound was turned down and I didn't know what they were saying.

That's my report.

FAX

Um no that is not it, That is what a 5-13 Career playoff record gets you..

You dont Choke that many opportunites away before people look at you for the fraud you are...

wow just wow

Hell we will give them our 4th to take him!

It really doesn't make much sense unless they actually believe in the Marty post-season curse.

FAX

Pretty dumb to do this after all the good coaches are already gone, including their coordinators.

zowie!

You really have to ask that or think that FAX???

if it was for Montana, good ol marty would be a smashing playoff record of 3-12....

the record speaks for itself....

Could be the reason.. realizing that all the brains behind the team were gone, might as well cut the only dead weight left.

They just can't figure out why that team didn't go all the way and are looking for scapegoats. Unless they know somebody out there already in mind to replace him...Cowher?

Yea... I guess his post season reputation has finally caught up with him.

Wow....

Guess they got sick of the "Just one more year" shit

I bet that sends a shiver down the spines of all the losing coaches out there.

I think I wrote that a little backwards, Mr. Reerun_KC.

What I meant to say was that, after such a stellar season, they had to believe Marty's post-season curse was so real that they had no choice but to send him packing.

FAX

Marty Mora?

Double ouch.

FAX

this the most idiotic move the chargers organization could possibly do....

And I'm happy as hell about it!

Welcome back to mediocrity San Diego!

Sweet San Diego is going to suck next year. Welcome back to Raiderland Chargers.

Its cool, I didnt mean anything by it...

They should of sent him packing and kept Cam Cameron as HC. Would of been the best move, most likely?

The Chargers still have a ton of talent, but a young QB that still has some warts. Learning a new system isn't going to help him at this stage of his career. And the turmoil of this off season is going to mess with the psyche of the whole team. We should get a one year bounce out of this, maybe more if they make a bad hire. Too bad we still suck.

Put BucknKaeding on suicide watch

No, I doubt Cowher will want to go way out west. It'll probably be one of the other team's coordinators (Ron Rivera?)

What I can't imagine is if they're regretting of both Phillips and Cameron walking away.

This is just da besses news EVAH.

RED ALERT: TEAM IN TURMOIL.

TRIPLE HIGH FIVE!!!

SanDiego is full of good young talent, they will have to try hard to be that bad.

This might actually be good for the Chargers.

WTF? Didn't they hash this all out a month ago?

Now they've changed their mind? Sheesh.

We have are closer to raiderland than the Chargers are..

We might need to look in the mirror, they are getting a new coach and we still have Carl and Herm...

They at least have hope...

Agreed, Mr. C-Mac.

Still, they've lost practically their entire coaching staff. That's a lot of change for any organization to absorb.

FAX

Its now mentioned on the front page of ESPN, no details yet.
http://espn.go.com/

If they hire someone like Cowher I agree.

I'm not sure what experience he has with a 3-4, but that still seems like the logical, D minded choice.

Carroll maybe?

Why would he want to leave USC?

Man he has that place rolling and SoCal eating out of the palm of his hand... I wouldnt leave that gig for the NFL.... But who knows?

Houston Nutt!!!!!1111

SD would be a great place to take over if he wanted another shot. Great young talent, tons of cap space, and perfect SD weather.

I really can't see him leaving but you never know.

I wonder where Schottengoner will go now?

Will this be his last coaching job? Maybe another try at the NFC?

FAX

Gunther to take the reins? :hmmm:

God, that would make my day ROFL

This move at this point in time is surprising.

After losing their coordinators, maybe the Chargers felt that Marty was no longer the man to lead this team now that they have inexperience at the coordinators positions.

I know I wouldn't want coordinators to cut their teeth with Marty in charge.

I thought the extended him a few weeks back...or am I crazy? :shrug:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2763552

Sources close to Marty Schottenheimer and the San Diego Chargers said the coach was fired by the team Monday, ESPN's Chris Mortensen reported.

Schottenheimer and Chargers general manager A.J. Smith have been having disagreements over staffing after losing a number of assistants. Dean Spanos, the team president, told Schottenheimer on Monday that it wasn't going to work between him and Smith.

Three days after the Chargers melted down in a stunning 24-21 playoff loss to New England, Spanos decided that bringing Schottenheimer back for the final year of his contract gave San Diego its best chance to win.

Schottenheimer, though, declined the team's offer of a one-year extension for 2008 worth $4.5 million, with a $1 million buyout.

"Right now, I wasn't comfortable accepting it," Schottenheimer told the Associated Press shortly after the season. He would have earned more than $3 million in 2007.

With a regular-season record of 200-126-1 with Cleveland, Kansas City, Washington and San Diego, Schottenheimer is the most successful coach never to have reached the Super Bowl.

They offered him a one year extension, but he turned it down.

I'm pretty sure both are correct, Mr. DaFace.

FAX

Well there's a shocker. Hopefully they didn't want Cameron or Phillips as their top candidate, otherwise AJ Smith is an idiot.

Ah. Just one, then.

FAX

yeah, that's my point....they wanted be the coach, and were suprised when Marty was retained....so they leave, causing panik and mayhem in the organization which thought it could make it one more year with Shittenhimher....or not....lol

If the NCAA hammers USC for the whole Reggie Bush thing, he might consider it.

Gotcha.

You have to feel for the guy. Here's a trivia question for the Planet's historians (cough...Rain Man...cough): has a coach ever been fired after a 14-win (or better) season before?

I don't think AJ Smith's an idiot.

Dammit, khatru. I just read your sig lines.

True, I thought of that after I posted it...

I think they did want Cameron, but Spanos didn't have the cajones to fire marty right after the season....then everyone bolts and he's left with nothing but the shittiest coach on the staff...just spekulating

I think the idiots here are the Spanos', who didn't allow Smith to fire Marty when he wanted to.

Now they've fired him, and put Smith in a rather difficult position.

Smith has done a great job as GM, but he doesn't seem like the easiest guy to get along with, either.

Thats some serious dick suckage right there. And he is a chock artist.

Marty got fired because he wanted to hire Brian as OC and Kurt as DC.

I know, I'm a masochist.

Talk about have a coaching staff that would be about as productive as Herm running the Colts offense...

you just had to bring THAT up again! This is supposed to be a happy thread.

Seriously, how do you fire a coach that's 14-2 the year before, and has won the division two of the last three years? Yeah, yeah, I know about his playoff record, but he obvviously had the team believing in him.

Not a good move. Let him flounder with two new coordinators in 2007, then give him the axe.

Unbelievable. I really thought this was a joke at first.

I didn't believe it when I first read this thread a few moments ago. I had to look it up before I could read through the thread.

geez

ESPN just announced that Reid is taking a leave of abscence from the Eagles....dropping like flies....

Heard that on the radio earlier. That has something to do with his son(s) getting into some pretty serious trouble.

That's been reported early this afternoon I believe.