Undeservingly Unemployed

While Scott Pianowski and I have trashed Mike Martz periodically in the Breakfast Table, we've both acknowledged he's a brilliant offensive mind. Not only is he not getting head coaching interviews, but he's been frozen out of even the multitude of offensive coordinator jobs that have opened up. Perhaps the rumors that he'll land in Miami are true. In that case, kudos to Nick Saban.

The glass is more than half full with Martz, even as a head coach. His teams have been successful. He's had league-leading offenses as a coordinator and head coach. He's developed three QBs (if you include Trent Green) that no one thought anything of prior to him getting his hands on them. What's more valuable in an NFL coach than the ability to turn lowly regarded prospects into bona fide franchise QBs (heck, even an MVP winner in Warner)?

And what about how Martz lost his job? There were no rumors that he was about to be fired or even on the hot seat. He gets the heart infection and gets sidelined for three months and then he's canned? That's cold.

And having Martz around is fun. He screws up the protection and timeouts and the challenges, but he thinks outside of the box in good ways, too. A head coach could reign him in where necessary, keep the QB upright more than occassionally and limit the injury risk and watch the yards and points pile up on the scoreboard.

Martz should have landed in Houston, which is about to commit $30 million of guaranteed money to Reggie Bush. Do you know who Pete Carroll and Norm Chow called when they wanted to figure out how to deploy Reggie Bush? That's right, Mike Martz. So they put Bush on the Marshall (Faulk) Plan. Houston was foolish not to do the same thing, assuming the Bush rumors are correct.

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