Marty Schottenheimer passes away

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Just think, Art Modell fired three of the best coaches ever.
Brown, Marty and Belichick. Collier was good and resigned.
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Brian wolf wrote:Just think, Art Modell fired three of the best coaches ever.
Brown, Marty and Belichick. Collier was good and resigned.
Getting rid of Marty (and Earnest Byner) was a mistake (in an issue of The Sporting News from 1993, Ernie Accorsi said that the Bills shouldn't do anything drastic. Accorsi said that he regretted trading away Byner). I don't think that Belichick's firing was, though. Belichick wasn't the Hoodie of today in Cleveland. He had a lot to learn, and the Browns were his training wheel job. And, if he stayed, the team may not have been as good because Ozzie Newsome wouldn't have been in control of personnel like he was starting in 96 for the Ravens.
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Good points but its hard to say ...

Belichick may have won in Baltimore with Testaverde or not, or maybe Testaverde still would have went to New York later but had Belichick stayed with Modell in Baltimore in 96, maybe the Steelers would have went back to the SB instead of the Patriots ? Tuna might have went to the Jets anyway but its all speculation. Maybe Belichick would have never found his great QB, though Vinny was capable ...
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