| Mike
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C Mike Martz: Announces He Will Not Return As Rams Coach In 2005, 
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Oct 24, 2005 |
C Mike Martz: Taking Leave of Absence As Rams Coach
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Oct 10, 2005 |
C Mike Martz: Coach relied on ex-Packers coach in trade
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Sep 5, 2005 |
C Mike Martz: Ex-Packers coach had say in Johnson trade
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Sep 5, 2005 |
Rams’ Report Card For 2004; A Mixed Bag
Now that the pain of seeing the season end in such a depressing manner last Saturday is subsiding,
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Jan 22, 2005 |
Rams Win “One For The Ages”, Make Playoffs
Any number of words could describe Sunday’s 32-29 overtime victory by the Rams over the New York Jet
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Jan 4, 2005 |
Arizona Is Death Valley For 2004 Rams
Martz Made It Clear Monday That He Is Not Going Anywhere
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Dec 21, 2004 |
Rams Stampeded By Buffalo 37-17
Overall Unable to Match Up With Good Teams Defensively
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Nov 22, 2004 |
Rams Host Seahawks in Pivotal Contest
Rams Must Win Or Possibly See Their Season’s Hopes Go Down The Drain
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Nov 13, 2004 |
Is All Well Inside Rams Park Lockdown?
The Marmie Hiring Looks To Be Martz’ Biggest Mistake Ever
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Nov 11, 2004 |
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In two seasons as head coach of the St. Louis Rams, Mike Martz has blazed a trail and created offensive standards never seen in the 82 years of the NFL. The Rams have been called "The Greatest Show on Earth" and Martz is the ringmaster, directing the most dangerous and prolific offense the game has known.
Chairman Georgia Frontiere appointed Martz the 21st head coach in the 65-season history of the Rams on Feb. 2, 2000, but Mike's organizational lineage dated to 1992, when he broke into the NFL as an unpaid assistant and immediately began to cultivate his gift for offensive football.
As Rams receivers coach in 1995 Martz guided wideout Issac Bruce through a season in which Bruce caught 119 passes, third-highest total in NFL history. In 1999, after two seasons with the Washington Redskins, Martz rejoined the Rams as offensive coordinator and the NFL has not been the same.
•The Rams have led the NFL in offense in each of the last three seasons and produced back-to-back-to-back NFL Most Valuable Players: Kurt Warner in 1999, Marshall Faulk in 2000, and Warner in 2001 (Faulk was NFL offensive player of the year from 1999-2001).
•No NFL team has had the outright winner of the MVP award for three consecutive seasons. Green Bay came closest with Brett Favre in 1995 and 1996, but Favre shared the honor with Detroit's Barry Sanders in 1997.
•In the last three seasons, the Rams have averaged 32.6 points a game and 420 yards total offense.
•In 2001, the Rams became the first team to score at least 500 points in three consecutive seasons.
•In the last three seasons, the Rams have broken 16 NFL offensive records and 75 team records. The Rams have tied 4 NFL offensive records and 30 team records. The team records are for offensive, defensive, and special teams.
"No question," says Bob Oates, pro football historian and observer of the game since 1940. "What's unprecedented is that Martz is so far out in front of everyone else."
"What a splendid coach!" said Hall of Famer Sid Gillman, whose San Diego Chargers teams Martz followed as a teenager in the 1960s. "The Rams don't sit there in one formation, letting the defense size them up. Martz's offense is all over the place. They use the entire field."
"I love the way Martz plays," says Don Coryell, legendary coach of the Air Coryell Chargers. "It's exceeded anything we did. He finds the weak spot in the defense and applies pressure to it."
"I just marvel at them," says Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts, the leader of Coryell's teams. "At their best they're similar to what we were, always a step ahead of the opposition. And they're faster."
"This is one of the most volatile, distinct offenses in the history of the game," says Steve Sabol, NFL historian and President of NFL Films.
"Martz has done a brilliant job of designing an offense and procuring talent to take advantage of the environment," says Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh. "He has a fast track (St. Louis' Edward Jones Dome) and knows how to exploit it. If that's so easy to emulate, we would see other teams doing it. But you can't emulate what Martz has done." Martz coordinated a remarkable turnaround when he took over the Rams' offense for the first time in the 1999 Super Bowl XXXIV-championship season. Guiding former Arena League quarterback Kurt Warner and exploiting the running-receiving talents of M |
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