Ron Turner
Ron Turner
Ronald David "Ron" Turner is an American football coach and former player; he is the current head coach of Florida International UniversityPanthers football team. He previously served as the quarterbacks coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League, a position he assumed in March 2012. Turner served as the head football coach at San Jose State University in 1992, and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1997 to 2004. Turner also had two separate stints as...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth5 December 1953
behind fiction stand work
We stand behind the work as fiction and that it's good.
area exactly hard looking receiver slot tight type
We're looking hard at tight end, and we're looking hard at a slot receiver type of guy. That's exactly the area we're looking at right now.
listen listening music people sorry
Most people listen to music and he's listening to me. I feel sorry for him.
depth great running starts
It all starts with the running game, and we feel great about our depth there.
coming plan
Not at all. That was our plan coming in. That is what we said we were going to do on short-yardage situations.
ask backs blocking change drop foremost fred good great guys job john leave looks run several steps
John and Fred did a great job. They did an outstanding job. I thought our backs did a real good job of helping. You're not going to leave (the linemen) blocking them one-on-one all day. The backs have to get involved. You have to change up your protection. You can't just drop back several steps and ask those guys to block them all day. You have to run the football, which is first and foremost with us. And then you've got to change up the looks and the protection.
careful feels knows practice smart third week
We have to be careful. Eventually, yeah, but this is his third week of practice. We've got to be smart with him. We've got to be careful that we don't try to do too much, that we do the things that he knows and feels real comfortable with.