Norv Turner
Norv Turner
Norval Eugene Turneris an American football coach who is the offensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. Turner has also served as offensive coordinator for the San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns and the Dallas Cowboys, where he won two Super Bowls. He has served as head coach of the Washington Redskins, Oakland Raiders, and San Diego Chargers. He is the older brother of Ron Turner, the former head coach at the...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth17 May 1952
bunch featured gives guys himself opportunity sees starting themselves
He sees himself as a tailback. We're going to give him every opportunity to play tailback and see what he does best. We have a bunch of guys who see themselves as the starting tailback. When you have that kind of competition, it gives you the opportunity to come up with a featured runner. That's our goal.
field game good guy last pass
He's a very good pass protector. When you look at the game last week, he had 10 plays, (and) he is a guy who should be on the field 25 times a game.
exciting half improvement job second
He was one of the exciting things about the job ... . The second half of the first year, we did make improvement and got some things established.
awful best bring chance excited few games good guys last playing playoffs team trying win
Over the last few games we've been playing an awful lot of young players. For them, it's a chance to play and get better. In this situation, we're playing a good team that's going to the playoffs and trying to win their division. Hopefully, that should get our guys excited and bring out the best in them.
added close grown lost players talented team turn win
I'm disappointed that we've lost our first two games, but we've grown up a lot as a team. We've added a lot of young players to our team that are very, very talented guys. We've been close in each game. We need to turn the corner, get over the hump, win a close game.
spot whatever
It's not in the same spot as before. They don't know if it's torn, if it's a sprain or strain, or whatever that is.
finished guys needed played today
There's a lot of things we did well, and some things we didn't do as well as we need to. But certainly, the No. 1 thing we needed to do today was come away with a win. Our guys had played for stretches awfully well, and we haven't finished. We finished today.
backs best catch football hands receiving
I think he's one of the best receiving backs I've been around. His hands -- he can really catch the football.
defended physical run
I thought we did a lot of things in a physical manner. We defended the run well.
excited flashy guy justin
I think Justin will be excited to play and he's a flashy guy and he can make some runs.
answer happen hard talk
That's so hard for me to talk about, anything that's going to happen after the season. You know, that's hard for me to answer that.
biggest eliminate ended negative plays three
The biggest thing we have to do offensively is eliminate the negative plays which has plagued us through the first three games, ... We just ended up with too many second-and-15s, first-and-20s.
blocking executing fool fools-and-foolishness guys route run running tackling throwing wrinkles
I don't know if you ever fool anyone, but you give them different wrinkles and you give them things that may look like something you've run before and you actually run something different out of it, ... It still comes down to executing and going out and blocking and tackling and running a route and throwing and guys making plays.
coach highlight
It didn't end the way we wanted, but it was a highlight for me to be around him and be able to coach him.