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| 12.01.07 (1:37 am) [edit] |
Kent Ninomiya. An unsung hero on the Chargers offense if Michael Turner. The San Diego Union Tribune is focusing some much needed attention on Turner. They write: When General Manager A.J. Smith decided to not trade Michael Turner this offseason, he never said it was because he wanted to have a two-back system.
“I'm insurance,” Turner said this week. “People expect since they kept me, I was going to be playing a lot more.”
Turner was hopeful too. Hey, Norv Turner was too.
“I'm disappointed we haven't been able to use him more,” the head coach said. “But we just haven't had a lot of opportunity to use him more.”
Michael Turner always knew, “LT has got to get his touches before I can get mine.”
LaDainian Tomlinson has rushed just 216 times this season, second-fewest through 11 games in his seven-year career. That helps put Turner's 39 carries in perspective. So does the fact the Chargers are a different team this year. Of Turner's 80 carries in 2006, 54 came in the second half, and 37 of those were when the Chargers were winning by more than a touchdown. The Chargers haven't been ahead by big margins this season. The one game they were up big, in Denver, Turner ran 10 times for 147 yards.
“It's been different,” Michael Turner said. “We have a whole new coaching staff, whole new guy calling plays. Games are going different ways. We haven't been the same. We've been struggling.”
Turner is averaging 5.6 yards a carry. But take away runs of 49 and 74 yards at Denver, and his average drops to 2.6.
It was Darren Sproles who spelled Tomlinson at the end of this past Sunday's game because Turner was a little dinged. And Tomlinson didn't exit until there were just three minutes left, as Norv Turner left Tomlinson in to try to get his 110th career rushing touchdown, which would have tied him with Walter Payton on the same day Tomlinson passed 10,000 rushing yards.
“We had a chance to go get a drive,” the coach said of a series that stalled on two holding penalties. “You get 10,000 yards, I would have liked him to go get a touchdown.”
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