Im not sure if the players played very badly, the coaches had a crappy scheme against what WAS the NFL's worst pass defense or if all the injuries added up. One thing is for sure.. The Vikings man handled the Chargers, the guy above looks like a split personality football fan....and the Chargers are a mediocre team and not in the NFL elite. Good thing for us the AFC West is super-bad......... I hate those Viking hats.... Dont you?
Ill post the link again for the petition. The team was definetly not prepared for this game and that is a coaching issue. Say what you will but the Chargers are getting out schemed every 2nd half they play. There may be many reasons for the poor play such as the emotional drain of the fires etc...... but to be the team that gives up the most rushing yards in an NFL game EVER?! What is this 1976 Tampa Bay? We do have a lot of bays here... hummmmmm.
Is it football or futboll?
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I suspect that the major part of the reason Norv Turner is so bad as a head coach is his unwillingness to give up playcalling responsibility for the offense. This is a classic error of leadership...micromanagement. Turner is a capable offensive coordinator, but in his role as a head coach he's more responsible for judging the effectiveness of that offense, during the game, against his opponent that week as well as tailoring it to the capabilities of the defense. Basically, the reason that he fails is that he's trying to do both the planning and implementation phases of the job by himself and it's detracting from his ability to do both. He's so caught up in the minutiae of trying to fine-tune the game plan that he's not able to effectively dedicate sufficient time during the game to judge how well that game plan is working and adapt (which explains why he always appears to be a step behind the good teams when it comes to making adjustments). And the time he has to dedicate to head coaching responsibilities detract from his ability as a coordinator to work with individual players when they struggle (e.g. Philip Rivers, Vincent Jackson).
Very few coaches are capable of handling both tasks because they both require a full-time commitment. Whenever you see a head coach trying to do both, it's usually a factor of either clear incompetence on the part of a coordinator (and, let's face it, Clarence Shelmon doesn't have much of a track record) or personal insecurity on the part of the head coach (which manifests itself in the need for control...which is pretty much how it's been with Turner at every stop). The problem with Turner isn't that he has no abilities, the problem is that he's overextending them. And the fact that this problem has been a constant throughout his coaching career, indicating either an inability to recognize his limitations or an unwillingness to change, is what makes him a terrible head coach...well, that and the fact that he appears to have all the personality and charisma of cardboard.
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