Mike Martz
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| Date of birth: | May 13, 1951 |
| Place of birth: | Sioux Falls, South Dakota |
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| College: | San Diego Mesa, UC Santa Barbara, Fresno State |
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| Regular season: | 53–32 (.624) |
| Postseason: | 3–4 (.429) |
| Career: | 56–36 (.609) |
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Michael Martz (born May 13, 1951) is a former National Football League (NFL) head coach and offensive coordinator. He is best known as the offensive coordinator behind the St. Louis Rams high-powered 1999 team which won the Super Bowl. As a head coach in the NFL, Martz's St. Louis Rams teams compiled a 56–36 record in his 5⅓ seasons as head coach. His teams reached the playoffs four times and won two division titles including a NFC championship and a trip to Super Bowl XXXVI.
Martz played tight end at San Diego Mesa College, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Fresno State University and graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis in 1972. The following year his coaching career began at Bullard High School in Fresno, California. From 1974 to 1991, he was an assistant coach at seven colleges and universities, including two stints as offensive coordinator at Arizona State University.
In 1992 Martz was hired as quarterback coach for the Los Angeles Rams and held that post through 1994. In 1995, when team moved to St. Louis he was hired as wide receivers coach in 1995-96. Under his teaching Isaac Bruce exploded onto the NFL scene, going from 21 receptions in 1994 to 119 and 1781 yards in 1995. And Bruce was voted to his first Pro Bowl in 1996.
Martz left the Rams in 1997 to become quarterback coach at the Washington Redskins and helped develop Trent Green, who signed to be Rams QB in 1999, the season Martz was hired to be the offensive coordinator.
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