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
expect offensive
No, you don't expect this. And it's not just from a rookie. As an offensive team, we didn't get it done today. You don't expect to go out and play like this.
football formula great hopefully opportunity plays protect run stick
We'll just stick with the formula that got us where we are, which is play great defense, run the football and protect the football. Hopefully we can make some plays when the opportunity is there.
accepted defense great guys opens running thomas watching
Thomas is running tremendously well and, obviously, that opens up a lot of other stuff. That's a great defense we went against. We were watching film all week, saying, 'What are we going to be able to do?' But our guys accepted the challenge.
almost good news plenty time
The good news is we have plenty of time almost a month, before our opener,
good protecting running
We've been doing a lot of good things, especially running the football, protecting the football.
definitely listening people sorry
When most people are listening to music, he's listening to me. I feel sorry for him. He definitely has intensified his preparation.
change maybe week wrinkles zero
Then he can really zero in on those, and we won't change drastically week to week. You put little wrinkles in, variations. You maybe change the formation but not the concepts.
blitz field handled rest saw season year
Every blitz that you'll probably see the rest of the year he saw on Sunday, and he saw them all. He handled it, he saw the field very well, he did a lot of things well, so he'll be able to do more as the season progresses.
good
That's a big loss. He's quick, explosive, powerful, a good player.
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.
blocking game pass running toughest
That'll be the toughest thing blocking the pass routes. The running game will come.
dig
They can dig through that film a whole lot. That is all they got on him.
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.
behind fiction stand work
We stand behind the work as fiction and that it's good.