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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From a standpoint of doing this job, you focus on the football. You keep working with the coaches, with your players, to see how you can get yourself better. How you cannot have to spend a lot of time talking about it. But part of the job is answering the types of questions you have to answer. That goes with the territory.
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It's going to be important, no question about it,'' Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Johnson said of the pass rush.
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It's clear what they're playing for. The question is, what are we playing for? These are the kind of games that define a team's character.
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There is a process that a guy goes through and no question -- it's not even about 14 or 16 games -- it's about being the full-time guy, for an entire game. You learn the first time you do it. He hadn't done that since college.
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took a pretty good hit on a swing pass, but he returned (to the game) and he's fine.
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We have to do all the things you do, whether it be change up the cadence, whether it be chipping guys, whether it be doubling. They do a good job of moving inside-outside to keep you from getting a good double-team on them. They'll bring the linebacker with the end to that side. So at times you just absolutely have to single block them.
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We certainly haven't heard anything from them and we don't expect to. From what I sw, and from everything that's been referred to me, everything was spoken in the past tense.
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I've seen Rich from the other side of the field numerous times. He's one of the more accurate guys I've ever been around.
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These situations are the biggest thing. We've missed opportunities where we felt like we could have converted third downs. That's something that we spent a lot of time working on during the bye.
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They always are. They always have been, ... Guys play or don't play based on performance.
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As I keep saying we have to put this thing behind us. We lost Sunday. We've got to start getting ready Wednesday to go win a game on Sunday. Obviously, what we have to do is win a game, and then you win one, and you try to put your own streak together.
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As I keep saying we have to put this thing behind us,
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Early, I thought our protection and the things we did were good. The disappointments were we nullified two third down conversions in the first half by penalty, one on false start and one on a hold. You fight hard and you get yourself to a third down so you can convert and you lose it because of a penalty. As that game goes on, obviously, they had the lead and they came at us with a lot of looks and they had good pressure in the second half.
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There's some guys that have had to go through tough times in that locker room. And they'll be stronger because of it.