... McVay and Goff have been playing whiffle ball next door and they keep hitting it into Martz' yard.

What an odd character he is.

The best ... very best ... description I have ever heard / read about Martz came from Les ... where is he lately, btw?

He called Martz the Buddy Ryan of offensive football.

He's right.

Both of them were ahead of their times in many, many ways ... but never adjusted what they did as times changed and the opponents began to decipher what they were doing.

Being able to adapt and change is paramount to being a great football coach. Adapting a philosophy to fit personnel. Rather than vice-versa.

Remember .. Bill Belichick earned his stripes as a mad scientist defensive coach. And yet ... there haven't been many of his Patriots' teams that have completely hung their hats on defense. They've had good defenses. Opportunistic defenses. But not ... out and out dominating.

Don Shula won a Super Bowl with a team that ran the football 70 percent of the time.

A decade later, he put one of the most-dominant passing teams in NFL history on the field with Dan Marino.

The bottom line with Martz ... had Vermeil not retired ... I tend to believe Kurt Warner would have finished his career with the Rams. Not saying Warner didn't have some responsibility in how ugly things ended for him in St. Louis ... but it was mostly Martz ego and stubbornness that led to that meltdown.