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Originally Posted by kane
I've often wondered that. A great example is Norv Turner. He was the head coach of the redskins where he went 49?59?1. Then the head coach of the raiders where he went 9-23. So after losing at two previous jobs he is hired by the chargers where he has gone 19-13, but he inherited a super bowl caliber team and this year they went 8-8 and only got into the playoffs because they are in a shitty division.
It seems that guys can under-perform over and over again and still get jobs. It often amazes me.
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I've never been a Norv Turner fan...he's just the offensive version of Dave Wannstedt. (offensive in terms of the part of the team that has the quarterback....not offensive in terms of people being offended)
None of Jimmy Johnson's assistant coaches have really amounted to shit. They rode his coattails to get head coaching jobs but none of them had his eye for talent which is really what made him successful.
Anyhoo, the Chargers were kinda screwed because Schottenheimer leaving was a spur of the moment thing, and when you have a team that's already ready for prime time, that's not when you want to be hiring a rookie head coach....so Norv was really the best they could do.
They should have just let Marty hire his son to be the O-coordinator and given him one more year to try to win a SB with that roster. Then at least if it didn't work out they'd have had time to do a real coaching search.
A.J. Smith let his ego get in the way of that decision IMHO.