Tuesday, 03 January 2006

Four NFL coaches get fired

St Louis head coach Mike Martz, Green Bay's Mike Sherman, Houston's Dom Capers and New Orleans' Jim Haslett have something in common because their teams have all just fired them.

The Rams had a 6-10 season, and Mike Martz missed the last 11 games due to a heart problem. Mike Sherman went following the Packers (4-12) worst campaign in 15 years.

Dom Capers' Texans went 2-14, the NFL's worst mark and poorest in the team's four-season history.

Jim Haslett's homeless and injury-hit Saints were the second worst at 3-13.

The Rams started the season 2-3 before Mike Martz was sidelined with an infection of the heart lining and sssistant Joe Vitt replaced him for the rest of the season, which ended on Sunday with a 20-10 win over Dallas.

Mike Martz coached the Rams for more than five seasons, leading them to the play-offs four times and to the Super Bowl in 2002, when they lost to New England.

Mike Sherman was 57-39 in six seasons but he was just 2-4 in the play-offs despite winning three consecutive divisional title but his teams never made it to the NFC Championship game.

Dom Capers, accompanied by owner Bob McNair, told a meeting of Houston's players he had been fired as coach.

Bob McNair said: "We will begin looking for qualified candidates immediately and get the Texans moving in the right direction in 2006."

In six seasons as Saints coach, Jim Haslett went 45-51. His team struggled in 2004 as well but won their final four games to finish 8-8, but the 2005 campaign was doomed from the beginning because of the havoc caused by Hurricane Katrina in late summer.

With the Louisiana Superdome out of action, the Saints played their 'home' games in Baton Rouge, San Antonio and New York.

And on Sunday, Minnesota fired their coach Mike Tice less than an hour after a win over Chicago, which capped a 9-7 season. Kansas City's Dick Vermeil has retired.

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