I'd bet Schottenheimer is out exactly for the reasons you stated -- add Poor time management to the list.

Funny, I did not see Marty out there covering R. Caldwell on that fly pattern on the Pats game winning drive. Maybe they need a new corner not a new coach.

But if the Spano's family really does want a new coach, no big deal...there are a whole bunch of the usual suspects out there looking for jobs.

""game-saving interception""

It was 4th and 5. He knocks down the pass the game is over. How is that Marty's fault?

Leave Marty alone. Eventually, he will string a few games together in the post season and win a Superbowl. Football fans are fickle. Look at his accomplishments over the years. He's on his way to OHIO even without winning the BIG one!

As a Raider fan, I'd love to see him get fired. Maybe he'd coach our team.

The Chargers make a HUGE mistake if they fire him.

Totally undisciplined, the Chargers were desperately looking for a way to lose. There are teams that are scared of success, and the Chargers is at the top of that list. They looked for many ways to lose that game, and they found them......next yr....the same ole thing.

A.J. Smith is a dummy. Who are they going to get to replace Marty? Mike Tice? Dennis Green? Yeah, good luck with that.

Smith made the mistake of letting Brees walk last spring and forced Marty to play Rivers. Last time I checked, Brees was having an MVP caliber season and, oh yeah, just won a playoff game. If anyone should be shown the door it's that dummy, A.J.

They said the wind dictated not going for the long field goal early. It was coming towards the kick. The probably should have pooch punted though and tried to pin the Pats back. Regardless, players play the game and coaches take the blame. Marty just has been a victim of some bad luck. He should have gone to the championship in Cleveland when Byner fumbled and Snyder probably fired him too soon after that 8-8 season. The qb Rivers was basically a rookie with this being his first major season of p-t. Parker had some key drops early. They were in the game the entire time and had a chance to tie late. Just the way the ball bounces.

I'd be the first to jump on Marty, but yesterday's loss was because of his boneheaded players. There were three key plays in that game that had nothing do with Mary: Two unsportsmanlike penalties, one which kept a Pats drive alive, and another applied to the kickoff which gave the Pats great field position; and the interception/fumble which allowed the Pats to continue driving. New England didn't win yesterday's game as much as San Diego just lost. This is not Marty's fault entirely. The challenge and the failure to attempt a FG are on him, but the game didn't turn on those two decisions.

Let's see.......jumped for an interception that he should have stayed down on the ground for.....intercepted a 4th and 5 pass that he should have just deflected instead of thinking of being a hero...3 or 4 key dropped passes early going....the San Diego Chargers lost that game, not the coach.....let Marty go and whoever else signs him in the AFC will kill the Chargers every time they play them..........he is a Hall of Fame Coach.......AJ Smith needs to be run out of San Diego, BOTTOM LINE....and I'm a Ram Fan........I'll take Marty in St Louis, go ahead and get rid of him San Diego.

Marty as do all coaches will take the rap for inferior performance by too many players to list. Also his loss provides the village idiots on the sports talk shows to have fresh piece of meat to chomp on.
Marty will be coaching somewhere and still be producing competitive teams when the sport talk idiots are working somewhere at a real job. Mike Ditka described AJ Smith to a tee. Something about the rear end of a horse.

Headbutts, dropped passes, fumbled interceptions, fumbled punts ... yep all Marty's fault.

4th and 11 is too far to gamble on in the 1st half so that move is questionable.

Pats stepped up their game, Chargers didn't.

I thought the challange was a good idea even if was clearly the correct call. Just the off chance that the refs would screw it up somehow was worth the time out. How could he honestly think, I need to save this time out just in case the Pats come down score a touchdown and conversion, my team gives the ball right back, and then the Pats get a field goal to go ahead. The Pats are just stone cold assassins, so professional, never quit, big plays, small plays everything. The beauty of the team I think is they have no offensive identity. They can come out with four wide recievers and kill you like they did to the Vikings. They can come and kill you with Dillion and Maroney. Come and kill you with any one of a mob of recievers you have never heard of. Or just wait and hang around and beat you at the end. And the Defense! San Diego started with the ball on the Pats side of the field almost every possession and still lost. Best game of the playoffs.

Parker drops four passes in the first half, fumbles a punt, and falls down in the backfield on a reverse. These are Marty's fault?

I was yelling at the TV in the first quarter to bench Parker 'cause he wasn't mentally ready to play.

Numerous dropped passes, fumble on an interception, and stupid penalties by the Bolts are the reason they are staying home.