son of a i just heard michael smith on espn say that norv turner is the front runner...... ! NOT AGAIN!
No question. I like Schottenheimer. He's coached two teams I like (Skins and Chiefs) . Fundamentally he's a good coach and you know bad teams will always get better under him, almost like the Larry Brown of the NFL. It's just that his gonads shrink in the playoffs, and I think it's starting to get to him.
Funny that everyone forgets how badly Pete Carroll sucked as an NFL head coach.
Carroll's specialty is the secondary. In fact, his first six years of NFL coaching experience came in the role of defensive backs coach. Carroll made a name for himself in Minnesota, where his defensive backfield averaged an eye-popping 25 interceptions during his five-year tenure.
His next tour of duty was in New York, where he served as defensive coordinator for a New York Jets team enduring an era of putridity. In 1994, after four mostly mediocre seasons, Carroll assumed the role of head coach, promptly went 6-10, and was quickly let go.
Next up was a two-year stint with the then-aging dynasty known as the San Francisco 49ers . Carroll served as defensive coordinator under George Seifert and fielded an extremely solid unit that ranked No. 1 in virtually every significant statistical category.
Then came what is perhaps his most well-do ented NFL head coaching stint. On the heels of Bill Parcells' resignation, Carroll took the helm of a New England Patriots franchise that was fresh off a Super Bowl appearance. He reached the playoffs in each of his first two seasons with the Pats, but finished 8-8 in his third campaign and was promptly let go. In his three years at Foxborough, Carroll amassed a respectable 27-21 regular-season record.
I'd love it if Caroll came in as D Co-or. He probably wont.
Even as head he would be 10Xs as good as Shot in the playoffs. My grandma would. Anyones grandma would.
They are bringing in Mora Jr. and Norv Turner for interviews
It makes no sense why they kept him in the first place. Great in the regular season, pretty good at picking a staff and absolutely horrible in the playoffs. They offered him a ridiculous extension.
10 days until the combine starts, 3 weeks until FA begins and the Chargers don't have a single coach on staff.
This screams Lion Logic...
Oh, and Green>>>>>Turner>>>>====Carroll.
What that doesn't say is that he was run out of town on a rail in both NY and New England, with players, management, and fans all hating him.
Clearly he knows what he's doing in the college ranks. But there's no evidence he'd be better than Marty in the pros.
Maybe he's learned some things at USC about coaching paid players, though.
Please tell me this is hearsay.
Mora, Jr.? Is this his new dream job?
I so want it to be Mariucci.
C'mon Spanos, he just moved back to Cali...
Mortenson just reported it on NFL Live, said they have contacted both
a disgruntled fan? no worries... i have big plans for the Lions next year. i think we have a bright future ahead
Also, Rex Ryan, d coordinator for the Ravens was allowed permission to speak with the Bolts
whoever they pick must have his hat on the defensive side to help the secondary, which is acceptable after the pass rushing of phillips and merriman came. either that or a guy like turner who can get the most out of philip rivers.
Everything the Chargers Touch Turns to Gold
"Six years ago, the bumbling San Diego Chargers gave up the top pick in the NFL draft -- everyone's consensus choice was Michael Vick -- and dropped to fifth, where they took a chance on LaDainian Tomlinson, one of those dime-a-dozen running backs who get overrated every year.
The dunderheads did get an undersized, junk-ball throwing quarterback, Drew Brees, in the second round.
Three years ago, the morons went ahead and drafted Eli Manning with the No. 1 pick, even though Manning vowed he would never play in San Diego, presumably because the organization was so pathetic.
Forced to trade him, the Chargers used their multiple picks that year and the next to acquire sidearm thrower Philip Rivers, place-kicker Nate Kaeding, veteran tackle Roman Oben and linebacker Shawne Merriman.
Last winter, after Brees had developed into the perfect quarterback to lead the Chargers' surprisingly diverse offense, the boneheads allowed him to walk away as a free agent, gambling that untested third-year pro Rivers would be up to the task.
Now the goofy Chargers have bungled the firing of Coach Marty Schottenheimer. Whether you are a fan of Schottenheimer for leading the team to an NFL-best 14-2 record, or think his postseason failures and the one-and-done loss to New England last month warranted a boot in the pants, you have to admit team president Dean Spanos and general manager A. J. Smith really blew it this time.
A month after telling him he could stay, then watching the team's stable of talented assistants depart, and the best outside coaching candidates take jobs elsewhere, the dopey Chargers suddenly find themselves in mid-February searching in the weeds for a new head coach.
I suspect this is the final piece of idiocy the franchise needs to get itself over the top. The last pratfall that will lead them to the promised land. Yes, the final misstep in a long line of highly criticized moves that will make the crazy Chargers a Super Bowl team.
Me, I'm done calling them names.
If the Chargers front office is out to lunch, well, maybe we ought to find out what they're eating and drinking, and order it up. Every time I think they've driven the bus off the bridge, out come the James Bond wings and away they go.
The Chargers' plotters and schemers are either the craftiest crew of brilliant thinkers in the NFL, or the luckiest sons of guns to ever throw a dart at a draft chart.
Either way, I'm on board. If I don't have anything nice to say about the geniuses in San Diego, I won't say anything at all. Mom would be so proud.
If they bring in the great underachiever, Norv Turner, or backslider Dennis Green, to coach, I'll button my lip and marvel at the 15-1 season.
If they go with a 27-year-old junior college assistant coach, I'll assume he's the next Tony Dungy.
Heck, if they hire Denzel Washington because they liked the job he did with the ans, it's OK by me.
It's pretty obvious by now, the Chargers front office can do no wrong. Maybe the players and coaches can have their airhead moments at the worst time, say, in a postseason game against the Patriots. But the guys upstairs?
They've been perfect for six years. Drink a toast to that, 1972 Miami Dolphins.
Spanos cited the ongoing "dysfunctional" relationship between Smith and Schottenheimer as the reason he had to let the coach go, as if it were a bad thing.
In the same way that dysfunction has fueled every money-making TV reality show, it seemed to work with the Chargers, too. But we can only assume the brass knows best.
Its unblemished recent track record should also be great news for Chargers fans who live in fear that the team is moving just as soon as the last bobbled stadium deal falls through or gets voted down.
It may look like the Chargers aren't really trying, or may be sabotaging efforts to keep their game in town, but looks, as we've learned, can be deceiving.
I don't think they're going to Los Angeles, Anaheim or Las Vegas.
I think they're going straight to the Super Bowl. It doesn't matter that there's barely anyone left on the staff that guided them to the best record in history, or that a new coach may tinker poorly with one of the NFL's most talented rosters.
The important thing is the front office still has nearly a year to toss in a few more staggeringly deft gambits disguised as colossal gaffes.
I can't wait to keep my mouth shut."
Excuse me, how many playoff wins in the last six years?
^^ I'd say they did everything perfect except the length of Martyballs contract. Should have been 3 with a club option for the rest.
Thank him for the rebuild after 2004s 12-4, the predictable Martyball loss in the 1st playoff game and shuffled him off.
2005s 9-7 team said to be the best team ever to not make the playoffs.
2006s 14-2 our grandmas coaching could have beaten the Pats.
Other then that, great article.
I put total faith in AJs judgement of whom to coach for 2007-8. The SuperBowl dream lives.
Agree with everything except the first playoff loss. That loss fall squarely on the shoulders of Nate ing Kaeding.
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