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redemption - Kent Ninomiya
12.31.07 (5:42 pm)   [edit]
Kent Ninomiya - The Contra Costa Times has an interesting take on the Chargers as the team enters the playoffs. While everyone is talking about the players seeking redemption for their three previous first round playoff losses... they are looking at the coach. Norv Turner indeed has something to prove as a coach. They write: As the final seconds of his team's 30-17 victory against the Raiders wound down Sunday, San Diego Chargers coach Norv Turner strode onto the field, searching out Lane Kiffin for the obligatory coaches' handshake. Before Turner reached Kiffin, cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha stopped him and gave his former Raiders coach a hug. Next up in the reception line was Raiders cornerback Fabian Washington. Nose tackle Warren Sapp gave his old coach a slap on the back as he ran by. "It was impressive to me the number of players that I was with their first and second year -- rookies, guys that were young players -- who came up to me after the game and wished me good luck in the playoffs and had good things to say," Turner said. "And that means more to me. We wanted to win the game for team reasons, for what's right for our team. It's not a (situation) where there's animosity or anything. As I said at the time, it didn't work. It didn't work. We all move on." Those well wishes, Turner said, meant much more to him than any revenge he garnered in beating the Raiders in his first game in Oakland since being fired after the 2005 season. Of course Turner doesn't have much time to worry about paybacks. He's moving on to the playoffs with an 11-5, AFC West championship team that has won six straight games and 10 of its last 12. For Turner, those 11 wins mark a career single-season high. But that's nothing compared to what he might accomplish in the coming weeks if the Chargers keep winning. You see, Turner has long been the NFL's poster boy for the so-called Peter Principle. You know, the principle that a person, in whatever occupation, tends to ultimately rise to his level of his incompetence. In Turner's case, you have a stellar NFL offensive coordinator who keeps getting hired -- miscast? -- as an NFL coach, first by the Washington Redskins, then by the Raiders and this year by the San Diego Chargers. Turner was 49-59-1 in seven seasons with the Redskins, making the playoffs just once. He was fired after 13 games in 2000. Turner was 9-23 with the Raiders, getting axed after going 4-12 in 2005. Thus ended the potential feel-good story of the local boy, who was raised in Martinez and played quarterback for Alhambra High School, leading the local NFL team back to glory. That firing only added fodder for critics who believe Turner, for all his Xs and Os wizardry, doesn't have what it takes to be a successful NFL coach and lacks the leadership skills or the dominant personality it takes to lead an NFL team. Now that the Chargers are in the playoffs, Turner has a chance to rid himself of that albatross. Getting to or winning the Super Bowl would do the trick. Even winning two playoff games and reaching the AFC title game would probably quiet some of Turner's critics. Turner has already earned the respect of many of his players this year by the way he overcame a disastrous 1-3 start after replacing the fired Marty Schottenheimer. During a 30-16 home loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 4, Chargers fans began chanting "Marty! Marty!" "He never flinched, and we never saw him flinch," Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers said. "And that's what allowed us to continue to believe in what we were doing." Chargers defensive end Luis Castillo said Turner "grew and matured" as a coach as the season progressed. Turner certainly grew to understand the key to winning in San Diego is to keep handing the ball to running back LaDainian Tomlinson, who wrapped up his second straight NFL rushing title Sunday. Fortunately for Turner, new defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell's group started playing better and more aggressively, too, helping fuel the Chargers' surge. "We're on the up escalator instead of the down escalator like we were last year," Chargers center Nick Hardwick said. Peaking for the playoffs has been one of Turner's biggest themes. Last year under Schottenheimer, the Chargers finished 14-2 but blew an eight-point fourth-quarter lead and lost to New England 24-21 in the divisional playoffs. Exit Marty. Often this season, Turner has been criticized for not being Schottenheimer. Now that the Chargers are in the playoffs, not being Schottenheimer is a good thing. Schottenheimer has won 61.3 percent of his regular-season games but just 27.8 of his games in the postseason, where he's 5-13 overall and 0-2 with the Chargers. Turner's body of postseason work is small, but he's 1-1. A few more postseason wins in the coming weeks, and Turner might even get some respect as a coach and not just a coordinator.
 


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