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Originally Posted by Coltsalr
I didn't even like Marty, but this was a really good feature that they did on his Alzheimer's:
http://broadband.espn.go.com/video/clip?id=20896213
Interesting that he/his family agreed to being interviewed and displaying his ailments on full display like this. |
That's a good feature and not matter how you feel about him as a coach, its a horrible disease for any family to be put through.
But Marty really was a HORRIBLE playoff coach. 5-13 career playoff record. I know many things play into that record, like the Fumble, the Drive, 3 missed FGs vs. the Colts I believe in 1995, even the fluky INT for Brady and then a fumble on the INT return in 2006. Heck the Colts benefited greatly from his losses over the years. But still, that's a bad record.
5 times he had teams with eleven wins or more that lost in the first round in the playoffs. Those aren't just playoff teams, those are teams that should be conference championship contenders that lose in the first round. And this is with multiple different teams over multiple different decades, not just one team that failed over and over
I know Manning, as QB, struggled with this same perception for years, but he actually ended up near .500 for his career in the playoffs, which is not great but respectable.
https://www.pro-football-reference.c...es/SchoMa0.htm