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
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We're playing a lot of young guys 30 to 50 plays a game. Kirk Morrison is one of those guys. Sometimes when you play that many young guys, you pay for it. It's cost us in some situations, but it's helping us. We're faster and more athletic. We are improving.
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Competition makes you better. Rich is our starting quarterback. When you have someone there who has played and won it's a motivational deal and it helps you play better.
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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.
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This morning he went out and ran and was excited about the way he felt. We tried to plot a plan on how we'd use him. That's what we did. ... He made a couple of big plays that helped us.
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There were three times where we gained enough yards for a first down ... and had penalties that knocked us back. If you do that, particularly in the environment we were in, against a real good football team that pressures most quarterbacks they play against, then you're playing into their hands. It didn't help us in terms of protecting (Collins). We need to stay out of those situations.
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I just think that we've been extremely pleased with Randy as a person and a player. He has a great work ethic. He obviously has great ability. He's come in here and tried to help this team in every way that he can.
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This will help them. Everyone thinks it's four games in, but for all those guys, it's eight games in. Those young guys, in particular the rookies and second-year guys, not only is the season long for them, but they played more snaps in the preseason than most guys.
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This will help them, ... Everyone thinks it's four games in, but for all those guys, it's eight games in. Those young guys, in particular the rookies and second-year guys, not only is the season long for them, but they played more snaps in the preseason than most guys.
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He's been a great plus for our young receivers. He's helped them grow and kind of take things to another level in terms of their preparation.
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I think Derrick's really going to help us - on all downs,
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He's a guy that's going to help our young guys. He's been great with our young guys. ... When he steps on the practice field, (he) knows how to go, how to work.
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I know what the expectation level is. We've got to give him as many chances as we can. Along the way, when he's opening things up for other guys, we've got to understand that's part of the equation of Randy being here.
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Everyone gets caught on this 0-3 thing. There have been teams that have lost three straight games and had outstanding seasons.
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The biggest thing we have to do offensively is eliminate the negative plays which has plagued us through the first three games, ... We just ended up with too many second-and-15s, first-and-20s.