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
answering cannot focus goes job questions spend standpoint talking time types
From a standpoint of doing this job, you focus on the football. You keep working with the coaches, with your players, to see how you can get yourself better. How you cannot have to spend a lot of time talking about it. But part of the job is answering the types of questions you have to answer. That goes with the territory.
belong coming felt home plane
I belong here, ... When I got off the plane the other night, I felt like I was coming home. I feel like I'm home now.
ball gets ways
We want to get the ball to (Moss). He gets a lot of coverage. We've got to find ways to get it to him.
certainly expect heard past referred spoken
We certainly haven't heard anything from them and we don't expect to. From what I sw, and from everything that's been referred to me, everything was spoken in the past tense.
You find out what's going on at No. 1, let us know.
expect
You can't do that and expect to win.
capable chris good
We'll just see where we are. I do know he is very capable back there on kickoff returns. It would be, I think, if he and Chris would be back there, it would be a good combination.
biggest competing fighting fights-and-fighting football team wants win
Everyone wants to get into those conversations, ... but the biggest thing for our team is to keep competing and fighting the way we have. ... What we need to do, obviously, is to go win a football game.
both call tells ways wonder
Everyone tells you those things are going to go both ways and come around your way, ... But sometimes you do wonder what you have to do to get that call to go your way.
amount backup covered defense four gives guy guys hill three unusual
What they do have - and have had on defense - is backup guys that can play three or four positions, so you are covered for an unusual amount of things, ... A guy like Hill gives us some of those qualities.
cost faster game guys helping kirk pay playing plays
We're playing a lot of young guys 30 to 50 plays a game. Kirk Morrison is one of those guys. Sometimes when you play that many young guys, you pay for it. It's cost us in some situations, but it's helping us. We're faster and more athletic. We are improving.
against good night past starting thursday work zero
We're past that. We got good work in Texas, we'll get work against (New Orleans) Thursday night, and we're starting to zero in on our opener.
good hit returned swing took
took a pretty good hit on a swing pass, but he returned (to the game) and he's fine.
absolutely block bring change chipping good job moving single whether
We have to do all the things you do, whether it be change up the cadence, whether it be chipping guys, whether it be doubling. They do a good job of moving inside-outside to keep you from getting a good double-team on them. They'll bring the linebacker with the end to that side. So at times you just absolutely have to single block them.