Last year, a coach who had been a successful regular season coach for a long, long time, had his best regular season team ever, a team that was the hands down favorite to win the Super Bowl heading into the playoffs and was the top seed in the AFC.
That team pissed all over itself in its opening playoff game though, leading to harumphing amongst the learned men that this coach was, for some reason, unable to ever succeed in the playoffs.
However, this season, that coach proved everybody wrong and took a team that was nowhere near as strong as last year's model and entered the playoffs as the 3rd seed in the AFC to a Super Bowl championship.
Now let's see, this year we seem to have the same situation happening again. Just about everything you could have said about Tony Dungy last February applies to Marty Schottenheimer now.
The Chargers chose a different route though, and on Monday launched Marty after he compiled a 35-13 regular season record in 3 seasons as the Bolts coach. Now they must scramble to find someone to replace him, and likely will have to go with somebody who has never been a head coach in the NFL before.
Meanwhile, you just know that as soon as this firing was announced, Al Davis did a spit take with his goblet of blood, wishing he could rescind last month's hiring of 31 year old Lane Kiffin, whose resume money shot is that he somehow managed to offensive coordinate a rag tag bunch of misfits such as Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush, and LenDale White into a cohesive unit that could compete with the staunch defensive units of the Pac 10 conference. Marty would have been perfect for the Raiders, and you know he would have loved the chance to stick it to the Chargers and Chiefs twice a year apiece. Oh well.
So, as it stands now, your AFC West coaches in 2007 will be:
SD- ?
KC- Herm Edwards, who should have Larry Johnson playing wheelchair basketball with Curtis Martin by 2010.
DEN- Mike Shanahan, who will be every bit as creepy as Al Davis is now by 2015.
OAK- Lane Kiffin, who according to the Raiders should have a successful series of football video games named after him by 2025.
Okay then.
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