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
came chris games good job last played special
When Chris came back, he played well in the last ... games and did a good job on special teams.
ball england great hold jamming job longer teams
New England does a great job jamming receivers and rerouting you. With their coverage, they make you hold the ball longer than other teams would.
issues obviously protection
Obviously it was disappointing, with some protection issues that we had.
decision expect ready relatively understand
Obviously, I would expect a decision would be made relatively soon. As I said, I'm ready to go to work. If it's different than that, then I understand it.
came drive early fourth lead limited looked second
Obviously, early it looked easy. It got rough. We did the things we had to do defensively and came up with a big drive in the fourth quarter. (We) had limited possessions in the second half, but came up with a big drive when we had to get a lead we could protect.
create good hit interior negative
Philadelphia had a good plan, and they were going to hit us with some interior blitzes and try to create some negative plays,
coming game guy night obviously playing road somewhere thursday
Some of it is we're playing a game Thursday night, and obviously he can't play. I thought he was really coming on, and I think he's a guy that somewhere down the road has a future.
based coverage decisions helping number special
We made a number of decisions based on helping our special teams, (mainly) our coverage teams, ... We have two outstanding kickers and we need to get the most out of what they give us. We will be much better.
later start talk until week
I wouldn't even start to talk about it until later in the week and we'll see where he's at.
ball drove notch offense second stepped
Second half, you know, they have an outstanding offense and they had the ball, they made plays, they drove the ball and they stepped it up a notch defensively.
continue defend handle people
One of the things for us right now is to continue to get a handle on how people are going to defend us because there are differences because of Randy's presence. You do get some things a little different.
experience win
My experience is, you win one, you win two and it does get easier.
guys locker stronger tough
There's some guys that have had to go through tough times in that locker room. And they'll be stronger because of it.
assistant coach dynamic half involved time work
There's no dynamic involved - I work for Mike. I've been an assistant coach for over half the time that I've been in this league. I know my role.