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
advantage care challenged executing few giving good jump offense ourselves taking week
That was a big jump for Kyle. We challenged him all week about taking care of the football, taking advantage of opportunities, executing the offense and giving ourselves a chance. Let's see how good we are. Let's see what we can do. We made very few mistakes, and that is what it's all about.
ball comment few good kyle negative wrong
There is nothing wrong with punting the ball, and I have made that comment to Kyle a few times. We have a good defense. Punting the ball is not a negative play. A negative play is a sack, a fumble or an interception.
coaches hurt talk uptight
As coaches you have to be careful. If you talk too much about it, they get uptight and they play not to lose, not to make mistakes. You can't do that. They have to go out and play, yet you have to have focus. If you have that focus, usually you won't hurt yourself.
bring confidence definitely gone huge kyle playing position seen since teammates time
No question, to me that's a huge part of playing that position is the confidence that your teammates have in you and the intangibles that you bring to the table. I've seen that from Kyle ever since he's got here. I really have ? every time he's gone in and even in practice. He definitely has that.
ask backs blocking change drop foremost fred good great guys job john leave looks run several steps
John and Fred did a great job. They did an outstanding job. I thought our backs did a real good job of helping. You're not going to leave (the linemen) blocking them one-on-one all day. The backs have to get involved. You have to change up your protection. You can't just drop back several steps and ask those guys to block them all day. You have to run the football, which is first and foremost with us. And then you've got to change up the looks and the protection.
depth great running starts
It all starts with the running game, and we feel great about our depth there.
fight hurt needed ribs tough tried
His ribs were hurt. He's a tough guy. He tried to fight through it, but you could tell he was in a lot of pain. But he needed to rest. He really did, his knee, his ribs everything.
decision needs normal quickness rid work
His quickness with getting rid of the football, his quickness with decision making. The normal things that a young quarterback needs to work on.
attitude brings fit football good great looking run running style
He's a very tough, hard-nosed player, great run blocker. The attitude and his style of play, he's a real good fit for what we want to do running the football and getting after people. He brings that attitude we're looking for.
careful feels knows practice smart third week
We have to be careful. Eventually, yeah, but this is his third week of practice. We've got to be smart with him. We've got to be careful that we don't try to do too much, that we do the things that he knows and feels real comfortable with.
definitely start taken ways
He was definitely behind, no question. It's taken him a little while to get going, but to be able to start utilizing everything, we still have a long ways to go.
ball decisions field good quick saw threw
He saw the field really well, made quick decisions and I thought he threw the ball with really good accuracy, especially down the field.
job nice recognized safety saw soon
He did a nice job on that. As soon as we called it, he saw the safety come up and he recognized it.
add ball believe chance dimension field obviously passing plays
But if we can add the dimension of getting the ball down the field and making more plays in the passing game, then we obviously have a chance to be much better and I believe we can do that.