The Norv Turner Effect

7:25 pm EST November 16th, 2008 | Sports | 7 Comments

A few years ago the Chargers were among the elite of the AFC, on the verge of being a Superbowl team. Now, they are 4-6.

This is what happens when you hire Norv Turner as your head coach.

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7 Responses to “The Norv Turner Effect”

  1. D.R.Scott says:
    November 16, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    Yep, good old Norv did it again.

    There are bad teams that stay bad and bad teams that get better, but it takes a special type of awe-inspiring incompetence to turn a great team bad. At the very least, you’d expect Norv to get out of the way and let the talent do its job, but throughout his career as a head coach Mr. Turner is the anti-King Midas that transforms gold into lead. If you paired him with Wade Phillips, it’d be “Dumb and Dumber” in cleats and shoulder pads.

    What infuriates me, however, is that these clowns will keep getting jobs while African-American coaches-in-waiting like Mike Singletary stand by and watch these mediocre coaches pass him by.

    Then again, the teams that persist in sticking their heads in the astroturf deserve what they get. How are the Detroit Lions doing, by the way?

  2. Erik says:
    November 16, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    He’s a great offensive coordinator. I wish he (and the owners) would realize that and quit giving him head coaching positions. Tonight can be a double win with the Redskins winning and the Cowboys (BOOOOO!) losing.

    Plus, if the Bills win tomorrow night, I win my football pool for the third time this season!

  3. Parthenon says:
    November 16, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    Worse, he was hired after they fired a good head coach – Marty Schottenheimer. I suppose I can’t fault SD too much though. Belichick was a total failure as a head coach before the Pats took a chance.

  4. Oliver Willis says:
    November 16, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    Yes, but before the Chargers hired him, Norv had already failed TWICE as head coach – with the Redskins and with the Raiders.

  5. BubbaDave says:
    November 16, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    Norv failed at teams that were owned by Danny Snyder and Al Davis. There aren’t a lot of coaches who’ve succeeded working for those two. As for Norv’s Chargers record, I have trouble blaming him for LT’s turf toe, or the refs blowing a fumble vs Denver.
    Don’t be bitter because Norv couldn’t lead the Skins to victory over the 90s Cowboys– it’s not like a lot of other coaches could either, after all.

  6. jr says:
    November 17, 2008 at 2:07 am

    Norv’s the George Bush of the NFL

  7. Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle says:
    November 17, 2008 at 9:00 am

    I bet Alex Smith and the 49ers wish they had Norv Turner back as their offensive coordinator. Smith had his only good season when Norv ran the offense there.