Marty Schottenheimer
Marty Schottenheimer
Martin Edward Schottenheimeris a former professional American football player and coach. 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. 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...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth23 September 1943
CityCanonsburg, PA
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I think very simply stated, qualify for the playoffs against that competition and you are ready for the playoffs, because you have been tested by fire. I prefer to play that, because you've obviously had a good season the year before.
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I think two things happened. We kind of lost our efficiency on the offensive side of the ball. With Denver, you're going to have to play them for 60 minutes, regardless of where you play, but that's particularly true when you play in Denver. They got the emotion and momentum going and we couldn't get them stopped there at the end when we had to.
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He said his family is doing reasonably well considering the circumstances. Our thoughts and prayers are obviously with him.
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He's a remarkable combination of terrific skill blessed by God, a work ethic unparalleled by anybody I've been around. And his single greatest asset, in my opinion, is his pride. I've gone on record before, and I believe this, that he's the finest running back that I've seen in football.
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He's got great stop-and-start quickness. As a runner he's hard to find. I'm not going to put him in his category but skill-wise he's like Barry Sanders. His stop-and-start quickness reminds me of that.
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He's got a tremendous opportunity and quite a challenge. But work has never been an issue for him. . . . He's been a diligent worker. He's been a quick study. He's spent a lot of time with the offensive line as well as the skill people.
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His ribs were bothering him, but I don't think it will be a major setback. It just bothered him a little bit.
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He's a terrific guy. He worked as hard as anybody. But the approach, the philosophy, were different.
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Pittsburgh will send anybody at you at any given time. They're going to come after you. You just have to prepare and be disciplined.
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Our offensive line is not giving him a lot of space.
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I always like to bring them down (to Qualcomm) to get some work in before the night games. We don't want them to get too caught up in everything when they get out here Sunday night, so this is a nice way to do things.
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(He) has a terrific opportunity to move upward and forward in our business.
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He has had a pretty good week of preparation.
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He wanted to finish, but I decided it was time to give Michael a few shots.