Humble Quarterback Says Nice Things About Awful Coach

The headline on Chargers.com right now is an article about Philip Rivers crediting Norv Turner's "poise" during the team's recent win streak. I guess it's nice to see Rivers supporting his coach, but he's way off the mark. Poise is something you praise in bad situations. When you're on a winning streak everyone has poise. It's real easy to hold your head high after coming back from 3.5 games out to tie the Broncos for the division lead. It would be fitting to praise Norv's poise during the team's rocky start, but he probably didn't have it then. He was probably an angry, panicky jerk in practice because he thought he was losing his job (probably).

There's another interesting quotation in this article from Broncos coach Josh McDaniels, who "holds Turner in high regard"

Norv does a great job of understanding strengths and weaknesses of your defense and the way you try to play his team. If you change some things up or if you have some success against him, then ultimately you've got to be ready for him to have an answer. Usually his answer... you see it fairly swift and it's usually an answer that's going to attack and make a big play.

This just proves again that Turner ought to be an offensive coordinator so he can sit way up in a booth and we don't have to look at his frustrated frowny face when he realizes he's failed once again to properly motivate his players.