Marty Schottenheimer was a good NFL coach and a great example of someone who succumbed to the peril of playoff pressure.
He won 200 regular-season games, good for seventh place all-time between a couple of guys named Paul Brown (213) and Chuck Noll (193). Yet Marty’s legacy is his 5-13 playoff record.
After losing two AFC title games in Cleveland, he found even greater disappointment in Kansas City and San Diego. Since the NFL adopted a 12-team playoff format in 1990, No. 1 seeds are 38-14 (.730) in the divisional round. Marty went 0-3.
The Chiefs in 1995 and 1997 were 13-3.