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Tod Archer
Frisco, Texas – Moments before Thursday’s kickoff Dallas Cowboys And Philadelphia eaglesBrian Shotenhaimer will put his right hand on his heart, close his eyes and bend his head.
He will talk to two people: God and his father, Marti.
Cowboy’s new head coach said, “It is my idol, the man I saw, I was a little boy from that time.”
He will ask his father for courage to lead his players. He will ask his father to live with him and say, “I know you are watching.” He will tell his father that he expects him to be proud.
“Just the general conversation that you had if he had been sitting here, like you and I are now,” Shotenheimer said in an office watching the practice areas in the star.
The season opener made him emotional, thinking about it 16 days ago, just made him emotional. You can imagine what will happen for him inside Lincoln Financial Fields (8:20 PM ET, NBC,
This will be the first time in 6,808 days when Shotenheimer will be the head coach for a game in NFL. First to be accurate since January 14, 2007.
“I always wanted to be proud of him,” said Shotenhaimer. “I think that when I came into business, I always knew that I had literally two things: it was my word, which I would never break for anyone because it is very important, and my last name. It was something that he always defeats in my head, ‘Hey, you know, you are a Shotenheimer and what you should say is that truth and honor.
“But, you know, sitting on this chair makes it a little different because I am actually running on his footsteps. I mean I have been a coach for a long time, but if I was still a quality control coach, I am still trying to take to his legacy.”
Marti Shotenheimer, who He died in 2021 after Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2014, NFL’s head coach for 21 years. He won 200 regular-season games, the eighth most time. But he never made it in super bowl.
As of 2006, Bryan was an aggressive coordinator New York JetsAway from his father, with whom he coached in Canasus City, Washington and San Diego.
Brian was 33 years old and was seen as one of the up-end-head coaching candidates. In 2007, he interviewed Miami dolphin Work. In 2009, with New York Jets. In 2010, he refused to interview Buffalo bill,
In 2012, he interviewed Jacksonville jaguar Work.
He would not interview one and one until he talks with Cowboy’s owner and general manager Jerry Jones in January.
Marti was 41 years old, when he got his first head coaching job, took over as an interim head coach Cleveland Brown In 1984.
In 1986 and ’87, Brown faced two of the most shocking AFC Championship Games. Denver bronchosHe is known as “The Drive” and “The Fambal”.
In 1986, Bryan was 13 years old, when Elway covered Broncos 98 yards for game-ting touchdown before finishing brown at overtime at Cleveland Stadium.
“Just disastrous,” Bryan remembered. “I remember after the game goes to the locker room, and the spirit, it was like a funeral. And then when you grow up and you get into business, you like, ‘I get it.” I mean these youth do with their time, their bodies, their health, all those things – a dream, a vision, a goal – and to be so close and to shorten it.
“The drive was not bad as a thunder. The thunder was worse.”
Shotenheimer can read everything about the 1987 AFC Championship Game at Mile High Stadium. The browns were trapped (28–10 at one point), but driving for the touchdown in the fourth quarter when Bayana Beaner lost the ball in the 3-yard line of Broncos.
After a loss of 38-33, silence in the locker room got stuck with Shotenheimer, but seeing this, the brown picked up Banner after playing Kodi Risian. He is the brotherhood that he is trying to install in his cowboy.
“Without it, you have nothing,” Bryan said. “You guys ask me about the pieces and goods of the connection all the time, these things that these youths tried to do around the league, not here, it is different.
“I mean they are committed to something, and they give it their everything. Not for money. Not for fame.
Brian Shotenheimer was On 14 January 2007 at the Qualcomm Stadium, which came out as his father’s last game. A week ago, Jets OC Patriots as Brian’s season ended with the loss of the playoffs.
NFL’s best record of Marti Chargers was at 14-2. They were top seeds at AFC. He had 11 Pro Bowl players and five first-team all-pro selections. The NFL MVP was nominated, NFL MVP, who ran back with 2,323 scimples yards and 31 Touchdowns.
He was a super bowled favorite.
With 8:35 in the game, Chargers had an 8 -point lead new England Patriots And was seen on its way for the AFC title game. Slightly more than six minutes, with security Marlon McCree caught Tom BradyWhich should have helped to seal the victory, but instead of going down, he ran away with the ball and trapped him back into the patriots.
Brady delivered magic delivery with game-hinge and game-winner drives, and when the charger season ended Nat KedingThe attempt of a game-hanging field goal from a distance of 54 yards was away from the mark.
A month later, Marti Shotenheimer was the first coach to be fired after a 14-win season in NFL history.
He would coach the Virginia Destrors of the United Football League in 2011, but his time on the NFL sideline was over.
The Lombardi Trophy will never be his.
Bryan said, “This affects him. If I said that I am lying. You work your whole life, you win more than 200 games,” Bryan said. “And the Super Bowle was never going to him. It was going to be for all those who worked and tried to win bleed and sweat and one winning him. He was a selfless person that it was not going for him. It was going to be for everyone.”
During the meetings with players and media since becoming a cowboy coach, Bryan often mentions his father.
“The way we practice and the way I work in practice, my father is looking below from heaven: ‘What are you doing? It’s not how you practice,” said Shotenhaimer. “But my father also coached a long time ago. And the kind of athletes and type of young men we are working with has changed.”
Most cowboy players do not remember Marti as coaches. Cooper BibeThose who grew up in Canasus City know the stories that his father told him that when Marti gave coaching to the heads. Jake Ferguson Heard the stories of his grandfather, former Wisconsin Coach, Barry Alverez.
“I think his coaching styles are very similar,” Ferguson said about Alvarez and Marti Shotenheimer. “I thought I knew how my Grampa coaching until he returned to the bowl that day [as interim coach in 2013]I was in the locker room and I listened to him and it was, ‘Okay, it’s great.’
Duck prescott Former cowboy coach Mike Macarthi’s Marti Shotenhaimer’s stories were heard, who worked under Shotenheimer in his career. One of the marketing agents of Prescott grew up in Cleveland, so he has also shared some brown stories.
“Hard-nouted ball coach that did not take any S —” said. “Super excited to get the opportunity to achieve this opportunity, it is making it real. I know how much his father taught him, and how his father was as a coach, he is going to take it into it.”
not long after Shotenhaimer was named Cowboy Coach, reached a package star.
First, he did not know who it was, but after opening it, he saw two things: a “martaball” shirt and 3D-printed version of the Vince Lombardy Trophy from his father’s time with the heads.
There were two words on the back of the trophy: glam.
In 1986, NFL films captured Shotenheimmer’s pregem message for their brown before the playoff game.
“There is a glow, male,” Shotenheimer told his players. “There is a glow. Let’s shine.”
For Bryan, the glam represents the super bowl.
“He always holds the trophy and, of course, beautiful Lombardy Trophy, the brightness from the trophy, it’s the glow, it’s the glitter,” said Shotenheimer. “It is around the deal to hold the trophy in front of the entire team and all different images that come back from players and coaches.
“He always talked about the desire to see the glam, and was holding the Glam Trophy. So his message was,” Hey, imagine yourself holding that trophy. We are close. “
Shotenheimer’s sister, Kristen sent him a package. He opened it before making all the employees of the cowboy organization their first address.
“Really, I broke,” said Shotenhaimer. “Steve Shimco, our quarterback coach – it’s very fun – he goes,” Hey man, you are doing well? A big meeting is coming. ” I am liking, ‘No!’
Tears rolled on his face. Shimco left and told some other assistants that Shotenheimer could be delayed in the meeting.
“But I pulled it back together,” said Shotenhaimer. “There was a good meeting. I had to work it and work it.”
On Thursday, tears are likely to come back as it begins as a coach of a storey franchise in its first season, which has not won the Super Bowl since 1995. He has said that when he wins a super bow, his father will get a ring.
He once aimed to be the youngest head coach in NFL history, but had to wait for years for his opportunity.
Now 51, it is finally here. And his father, who he called his best friend, will be with him.
“Obviously, I will get excited, I will go up. I am sure I will panic, this is part of the deal,” said Shotenhaimer. “When I played, for the coach, it doesn’t matter, there should be butterflies and there should be butterflies. And so I am sure to open at night, in front of the world, and close their eyes and talk to those two people.”
