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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
That's pretty sad news. Schottenheimer brought the Chiefs back to some sort of relevance when he got to KC. He seemed to be a healthier guy, and had been out of coaching for 15 years so that's pretty young to be gone.
As Dirk notes...it was almost criminal that he got fired after going 14-2. I always felt terrible for him as he tells Marlon McCree before the game that when you get an interception late in the game, you go to the ground.....yet what does McCree do? Plus his kickers always crapped the bed too. Between that and John Elway he really was as unlucky in the playoffs as you could be.
Back when I used to have Sirius and NFL radio he would guest on it quite a bit, and he would talk how being an English major was somewhat useful as a Head Coach in the NFL because he could use new words and phrases to sell players on the same thing and that helped him last quite a while in Kansas City. But eventually he ran out of words and said he had to leave because he knew the players wouldn't buy it anymore because he didn't have a new way to sell it. Supposedly Joe Namath was enamoured with his wife Pat. I think it was in a Football life where he claimed she might have been the only woman who could have tamed young Joe...but she was his and even Joe wouldn't cross that line.
RIP to a guy who was a really good football coach.
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Well said, always felt he got a bad rap. That 14-2 Chargers team was stacked, if Dummy McCree just falls down, they face the Colts in the AFC championship game and they had their number back then. I think they win the Super Bowl but we will never know. Then the Norv Turner era started and it was downhill from there. Seemed like a really nice guy