“Ya hungry big fella’?”

Sorry Ike. But seriously Norv Turner reminds me of this drunken employee I once worked with. No matter how drunk he came to work, management always gave him a pass. Norv Turner is like that with his coaching. Not that he comes to work drunk and giggles at his reflection in LT’s visor for 10 minutes, but he is a terrible NFL coach. When Alex Spano hired him his NFL record was 64 wins and 82 losses. WHAT??!!! This gets the official “You’ve got to be kidding me.” Who thought this was a good idea? I’m sure I could get talked to death about Turner’s good points but this is kind of ridiculous. Fire a guy who takes your team to the playoffs consistently to hire a guy with a losing record. Well, a 10-5 record isn’t bad. It’s pretty damn good but is it Norv? Not at all. None of the games thatSan Diego lost in my opinion were excusable. So and So’s defense wasn’t so terrifying that the offense couldn’t get going. It was Norv. Towards the end of the season with a few wins under his belt I think Norv decided that it would be “too risky” risking possibly not getting into the post season with his playbook and simply threw the thing out. (Either that or before each game LT tells Merriman to eat this “notebook sandwich” because it will give him a boost of energy.) Afterwards poor Turner pretends to coach the game when actually it’s the Chargers sidelines “just fooling around” and that’s when they get their wins. They realized that Norv was actually just the Wizard of Oz. The Chargers sidelines (minus Norv) went on a 5 win streak late in the year because they were tired of losing. So now if he really wanted to Norv really could be like my former co-worker who came to work drunk. He doesn’t have to coach his team anymore he’s just gotta be there. So, Norv, have an AMF on me you paper cut out.