I had to do it! Click here to sign the petition to tell AJ Smith you are NOT happy about his putting in a new head coach this year. Being a fan and season ticket holder through thick and thin it is immpossible for me to sit through this 2007 season and watch the San Diego Chargers implode!
This blog is for people to spout off about what they think about Norv Turner as head coach. He has been given the keys to the kingdom and can't seem to find the door, the door knob or even the damn area where the key goes. When you inherit a 14-2 team you had better not start off 1-2.
A.J. Smith has made some great draft choices and personel decisions but I think firing Marty so late in the year might have cost us the next 3 years or more by getting a coach that has a more than pathetic NFL record.
This is here for we Charger fans to vent! Post a comment and send in your pics of Norv. I will put them up on the blog. Maybe we should make a petition to fire Norv?
Please leave a comment, Good or Bad!
This blog is for people to spout off about what they think about Norv Turner as head coach. He has been given the keys to the kingdom and can't seem to find the door, the door knob or even the damn area where the key goes. When you inherit a 14-2 team you had better not start off 1-2.
A.J. Smith has made some great draft choices and personel decisions but I think firing Marty so late in the year might have cost us the next 3 years or more by getting a coach that has a more than pathetic NFL record.
This is here for we Charger fans to vent! Post a comment and send in your pics of Norv. I will put them up on the blog. Maybe we should make a petition to fire Norv?
Please leave a comment, Good or Bad!
24 comments:
He's proven time and time again that he's a brilliant O coordinator but a lousy head coach. At least he's handsome.
He sure is good looking!
I am going to see what happens against KC, if we can't beat them then the town of San Diego shall rise up and decrapitate him
He is a "STAR".. Coach of the Year in my book.
Wow three games and you allready want his head too funny.
Wow, does anyone factor in that last years schedule was weak and maybe that is why the chargers went 14-2? I
don't think this has anything to do
with Norv! LEAVE NORV TURNER ALONE!! HE HAS FEELINGS TOO!!
Nice try (not even lol). But you Faider fans are pretty transparent.
Enjoy the first of your two wins this season. Losers.
It's time for LT, Rivers, and the rest of the Chargers' on field leaders to STEP UP and show what they're made of. Norv's definitely the new kid on the block here and was never much of a star communicator - let's see what the players can do as leaders.
THis IS NOT a Raider fan site. Raiders can go kick rocks and choke on them.
I think Norv Turner is an amazing head coach. It's amazing he has the ability to turn a Super Bowl contender into just another below average, confused, overrated, basement dwelling team. How embarrassing will it be for Norv Turner when even the Oakland Raiders sweep them?
Let's just go picket Dean Spanos at his home 7505 HILLSIDE DR, LA JOLLA CA 92037-3941
Merry X-Mas from the Raider Nation
hahahahahaha! this is so great. and the sad thing is you stupid starvers cant watch your team lose this year. win lose or tie raiders til we die. i'm rooting for norv to keep up the good work. LT hasnt had a 100 yrds rushing yet. Raiders are leading the division in rushing. we're number 2 in nfl for rushing.
When you hire a losing coach you get a losing team .. anyone remember Dan Henning .. another losing coach that created a losing team.
I hope we don't have another week of playing not to lose .. or grabbing a loss from victory ..
Is it possible this is all just a scheme to destroy fan base and ultimately move the Chargers to LA or Las Vegas?
Undeniably, we'd rather have Phillips. But we got Norv. Let's stick with him until the bye week. I think we'll be 3-3 at least by then, if not 4-2. If we're 2-4 (cause anyone can beat the 'baters), THEN we light the torches.
Now Cottrell--he can go. Hey Ted! Wake up! It's the regular season now! Time to reinstate the pass rush!
Hey raider fan above. Maybe we just expect more from our team than to just show up on the field and act like a faux gangbanger like the raiders.
I signed the petition, but it might make us Charger fans look a little less incompetent if it was spelled correctly.
"reins", not "rains". The former is a method for controlling a horse. The latter is a form of precipitation.
Let's not give the world the impression that Norv's incompetence is a reflection of the team's fans, eh?
That being said, perhaps we should first leave a brass set on the Spanos doorstep. Or respectfully request that Faye give Alex his spine back long enough to dump Smith, Cottrell, and Turner in the nearest alley and hire someone competent with less of a personal agenda.
Then Faye needs to take the spine back. We don't need another Jerry Jones.
This site was started by a Fraiders fan(s).
Your coach had to play monkey see monkey do just to win one home game by three points over one of the sorriest teams in the league.
I'll take Norv Turner over Lame kitten. Thank you.
Norvel is doing a mighty fine job. Keep up the good work Norv!!
somebody find and post the GM's Email and/or phone number. He's gettin some serious hate mail.
I don't know AJ's address, but Dean Spanos 7505 HILLSIDE DR, LA JOLLA CA 92037-3941
OK, Here you go- ALbert J Smith 10836 SEAPOINT WAY SAN DIEGO CA 92121-4364
Fellow Chargers fans,
I know that this season thus far has been every bit as painful for you as it has for me and everyone else who lives and breathes San Diego Super Charger football. As an lifelong fan sporting a Chargers tattoo and a penchant for doing the ‘Lights Out’ dance to celebrate anything from a strike in bowling to a good test grade, I cannot stand to watch our team to continue to play so far beneath our potential. The time has come for us to stand up for our team. The time has come for us to band together and run Norv Turner out of town. His previous track record as a head coach has shown his commitment to mediocrity throughout his career, and that trend has only continued despite the fact that he is currently in charge of one of the most talented teams in the history of the National Football League.
Allow me to elaborate on some of the problems I have with Turner as a head coach. For one, whenever some aspect of our offense finally starts to get rolling, he inexplicably chooses to move away from that, which quickly causes our offense to sputter to a halt again. My numbers may be slightly off, but in this most recent loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, LaDainian Tomlinson, the reigning NFL MVP, carried the ball 14 times for 112 yards in the first half as the Chargers stormed out to a 16-6 halftime lead. However, in the second half LT only got 6 carries for 20 yards, and Turner put the game in the hands of Phillip Rivers, who has been less than effective this year, and was having one of the worst games of his career. Also, with a 1st and Goal at the Kansas City 5, LT did not carry the ball once, and 4 incompletions and several moments of indecisiveness later it was again the Chiefs’ ball with the game now out of reach.
All offseason, we have heard about how Norv Turner is a great mentor for young quarterbacks, and how he has helped Alex Smith improve by leaps and bounds the last few years since being very underwhelming as a Rookie #1 overall draft pick. We all heard how Phillip Rivers was poised to take the next step to becoming an elite quarterback this year, how he was going to soon be mentioned in the same breath as Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, and Carson Palmer. However, if Rivers has taken even a step forward in his play under Turner, at the same time he has taken three humongous steps back. Four games into the 2006 season, Rivers had thrown seven touchdown passes compared to only two interceptions. Now, under Norv Turner’s tutelage, Rivers has thrown only 5 touchdowns and 4 interceptions, and has often looked absolutely overwhelmed and very hesitant in making the right reads and progressions.
We are very lucky to be blessed with a team so completely stacked with talent and depth at nearly every position; there is no way that a team that returned fully intact from a 14-2 season the previous year should start off the new season with a 1-3 record and barely a flash of last year’s brilliance. I understand that there are several factors at play, including the loss both of our coordinators to head coaching positions at other teams and of Eric Parker for the first half of the season with a toe injury. However, Norv Turner was brought in to provide continuity for this team, but the only aspect of continuity with the Chargers this year has been a trend of multiple momentum-killing turnovers from game to game. The team has been far less aggressive on both sides of the ball, and it has shown with sloppy play, indecisiveness, and bad decisions in every game. Out of 11 AFC Pro Bowlers from the 2006-2007 season, I can count 5 of them who have vastly underachieved this season. These kinds of problems have to be attributed to the head coach more than anyone else, especially in a situation where 19 starters returned to the starting lineup on Opening Day this year.
While I know that it is currently taboo to badmouth General Manager A.J. Smith thanks to his outstanding draft moves in the last few years, I feel that at least part of this debacle has to be attributed to him. However, I am not going to blame this one on his rift with Marty Schottenheimer. Instead, I feel that the real problem is that our team’s problems with indecision can be traced all the way back to the front office. Everyone and their mothers knew that Smith was going to fire Marty after that playoff disaster, but rather than get rid of him when there were still viable head coaching candidates available (including two on his own staff), Smith chose to waffle about until there was no one left, finally settling on a man who has absolutely no proven success at the head coaching level. Granted, he has been a great Offensive Coordinator in the past, but he does not have what it takes to be a successful head coach in this league.
I understand that most people do not believe that there is anyone out there right now who can step in midway through the season if we were to fire Norv Turner before the end of the year. However, I would like to remind everyone that we actually do have an outstanding coach on our staff who was in the running for several Head Coaching positions before settling for a post as a Chargers’ position coach after being unfairly passed over each time. That man was previously the Defensive Coordinator for the reigning NFC Champion Chicago Bears, a team that rode its defense all the way to the Super Bowl despite having one of the most erratic and unreliable starting quarterbacks that this League has seen in years. That man is Ron Rivera, currently a Linebackers Coach for the Chargers, who is more than ready to take the next step in his career and right this ship before this season becomes a competition to get a high draft pick rather than a high seed in the playoffs.
The time has come: the time has come for us to stand up for our Chargers, to band together and call for a shakeup within our coaching staff. If this season is to be salvaged, we need a change in regime. We need a change in attitude. We need to start back at square one, without the sense of entitlement with which we came into this season after being so dominant in the regular season last year. This does not just apply to players and coaches within the organization. Win or loss, we need to stand by our team’s side, and not jump off of the bandwagon just because of a disappointing season. I, for one, will continue to pour my heart and soul into my team even if Norv Turner remains as head coach and we continue to lose, and I hope that each of you out there will feel the same way. However, I feel strongly enough that a change at the top could do wonders for this time, which is why I am writing this letter today. Please join me in sending letters and emails and making phone calls to the Chargers organization. You can send them to:
Mailing Address
San Diego Chargers
P.O. Box 609609
San Diego, CA 92160-9609
Ticket Office (Stadium)
San Diego Chargers Ticket Office
9449 Friars Road
San Diego, CA 92108
Training Facility, Business: (Chargers Park)
San Diego Chargers
4020 Murphy Canyon Rd.
San Diego, CA 92123
Charger Park, Phone
(858) 874-4500
Chargers Front Office Email Page
http://www.chargers.com/contact-us/front-office.php
I hope that each and every one of you out there reading this will join my cause, as this is our team. The San Diego Super Chargers deserve better, and so do their fans.
Sincerely,
Mike
Two Things:
1) Bitch and moan all you want about a petition, but it won't mean a damn thing to the ego maniacs running the team. That's a fact. They are in love with themselves and nothing more.
2) Stop talking about how talented we are. Sure were looked great last year, but clearly it was a farce. Rivers ain't shit, and many other players are from the same mold (especially you Jammer!). And like most Chargers teams throughout history, we can't stop the pass to save our lives.
It's gonna be a long, sub .500 season with our arrogant front office, proven loser coaches in Turner and Cottrell, and about 20+ over rated players.
The sooner you get used to all of this the better. We're back to vintage Chargers football -- i.e. losing in new and innovative ways on a consistent basis.
Sorry your career was wasted here LT.
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