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Fail pays: Chargers extend Norv through 2013

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by fishhack2009, Jan 19, 2010.

  1. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    fishhack, not sure what you define as "epic fail," but in his two previous seasons as Chargers coach, Norv:

    A) Led a major upset on the road against the rested and ready Colts, and he did this with backup QB Billy Volek;

    and

    B) Put together a four-game winning streak in 2008 to get into the playoffs, then beat the Colts, then gave the eventual champion Steelers all they could handle.

    In your world, Tony Dungy never would have won a Super Bowl because he lost to the Steelers in '05. That was Indy's fourth consecutive year getting bounced, after all.
     
  2. fishhack2009

    fishhack2009 Active Member

    Epic fail: Losing to the Jets :D

    In all seriousness.. obviously three missed field goals and dumb penalties played their part, too.

    Good points ... but Norv Turner is no Tony Dungy.
     
  3. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    Starting with the point that despite three really good seasons in a row Turner is still about ten games below .500 as a head coach....
     
  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    He worked for Dan Snyder and Al Davis. The love child of Bill Walsh and Don Shula couldn't have done any better.
     
  5. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    Please, most of Turner's seasons coaching were spent with Dan Snyder and Al Davis -- two of the most incompetent NFL owners (if not the MOST incompetent) of the last 10 years.

    Norv Turner has done a hell of a job with San Diego. Calling him a failure as a coach relies on using past experience in no-win situations to dictate it. And certainly blaming him for yesterday's loss in light of how certain players executed is just laziness.
     
  6. Care Bear

    Care Bear Guest

    Absolutely.
     
  7. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    He actually worked for the Cooke family for most of his career in Washington -- Snyder fired him a year after he made the playoffs for the only time but he really only worked for Snyder for two years.
     
  8. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    He's done a helluva job with a team that he inherited which was 15-1 the season before he arrived?
     
  9. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    He had a winning record those two seasons under Snyder too, after being left absolute crap to work with to start. Desmond Howard and Michael Westbrook and the like.
     
  10. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    If that is the ONLY way you want to look at it, sure, go ahead. But it's beyond superficial and suggests you haven't been paying attention.
     
  11. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    All I know is he has had the best roster from top to bottom in the AFC the past three years and has not even sniffed the Super Bowl.
     
  12. fishhack2009

    fishhack2009 Active Member

    I know, Headbutt. I'm just exercising my God-given right to whine.. :D
     
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