Marty Schottenheimer

Edward Martin " Marty " Schottenheimer ( born September 23, 1943 in McDonald, Pennsylvania ) is a former American football player and coach. In 1999 and 2000 he served as American football specialist at ESPN.

Playing career

In the 1965 NFL Draft Schottenheimer was in the fourth round by the Indianapolis Colts (then Baltimore Colts ) drafted. Since then, the National Football League ( NFL) and the American Football League ( AFL) had not yet come together, they even organized separate draft. When AFL Draft in the same year Schottenheimer was selected in the seventh round by the Buffalo Bills, for whom he then decided. Schottenheimer was from 1965 to 1970 for the Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots (then Boston Patriots ) as linebacker active. In retrospect, he described his playing career only as inspiration for his much more significant coaching career.

Coaching career

Stations as a professional coach

Achievements

Schottenheimer is the coach who has been in the history of the NFL since 1966, most games won without him here ever participated with a team in the Super Bowl. He won exactly 200 of his 327 games as a coach, but only five of 18 playoff games. He won several times the NFL Coach of the Year Award.