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
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.
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.
add best bowl concerns football guy interest opportunity played shared super taken team thoughts won
He shared my concerns and my thoughts that if we had the opportunity to add a guy who's experienced, who's played and who's won and who's taken his team to the Super Bowl that would be in the best interest of the football team,
best
I don't have any regrets. You go in and do the best you can and give everything you have and you just go and do what you can.
appreciate best nature raider understand wish
I wanted to be here and appreciate the opportunity. I understand the nature of this business. I wish nothing but the best for the Raider organization.
best issue loses move sit team terms
Any team that loses one of (its) best players, it's going to have an effect, ... but, certainly, I'm not going to sit in here and say that that was the issue in terms of why we didn't move the football. We had opportunities.
defended physical run
I thought we did a lot of things in a physical manner. We defended the run well.
good
I think Doug did some good things. I think there's some things he could do better.
help
I think Derrick's really going to help us - on all downs,
certainly city control early football game happened kansas league looked lost morning number plays winning won year
I said it early in the year when we were 0-3, we're a lot better football team. This morning I looked at our first Kansas City game. We're two plays away from winning that game. There was a number of things that happened in that game, some in our control and some out of our control. That was certainly a game we could have won. Kansas City won the game, they're 4-3. We lost the game, we're 3-4. That's where this league is a little bit.
continued guys
Our guys continued to fight. But as we all know, it's a four-quarter game.
beat early inside
We got beat inside early in the game. We got beat between with their tackles inside.
kansas matched
Physically, we matched up with Kansas City, ... We competed hard. But there are things we've got to do better. And things we are going to do better.
became consistent year
I think he'll be more consistent down to down, and he became more consistent as the year went on.