NFL Week 13 ... LACES OUT, DAN!!!

Is there a worse coaching job being done in the league this year than the one by Norv Turner. Sure, Marinelli, Edwards, Haslett all are conductors on train wrecks, but not many thought those teams would be anywhere near good anyway.

Ol' Norv has taken a supposed Super Bowl contender and driven them to a 4-8 (and falling) mark. When will people learn this guy is not a head coach?

 

In all fairness, he did not run LT into the ground the past 4-5 seasons, and San Diego was primed for this fall after Merriman went down for the year.

 

Did I hear correctly that Turner was already told he was coming back next year if he wanted?
My guess is a lot of that had to do with what you said.

 

The tires on my broke-ass car in college had more tred than LT does right now.

 

Yes, they told Turner he could come back next year. Michael Turner, that is.

Bringing back Norv would require a full Cleveland of Fail.

 

Not saying Norv Turner is a genius coach by any means, and the Chargers have been wildly uneven all year. But keep in mind they've taken three losses to playoff contenders on basically the final play (Carolina, Indy and Pittsburgh) and had the Hochuli game go against them. Some of that can be laid on coaching, sure, but it's still a brutal bit of bad luck.

 

They are 4-8.

And 4-8 in a division where the three other teams have a combined 12-24 record.

Moral victories don't count and neither do woulda, coulda, shouldas.

They are 4-8 in a division with two teams worse than they are. That's deplorable.

No amount of rationalizing can change that.

 

Marvin Lewis on Line 1, Kirk.

 

Like I said, some of their failings can be laid on coaching. They've been too uneven this year to suggest otherwise.
But if Jake Delhomme's pass in Week 1 is a foot higher, or Hochuli gets the call right in Week 2, and they're sitting here at 6-6, is the situation as deplorable? Don't forget the Buffalo-London road trip, either. This particular Chargers team has had a lot of shit thrown its way. How much of it is Turner's coaching, and how much is it just being one of those years where every bad break goes against you? Those years happen.

 

If the Chargers are 6-6 instead of 4-8, they'd still be a disappointment.

 

More to the point, they are not 6-6. They are 4-8 in an incredibly weak division.

I stand by my deplorable.

And add to it the fact that they are 1-5 in their last six games, the lone victory being a 1-point nail-biter over a 2-10 Kansas City team.

 

And they'd likely be only one game back of the Broncos.