Norv Turner Era: Success or Failure?

The thing that really killed me about norv was that if it was 3rd and 10 he would call a 7 yard pass play.If it was 3rd and 7 he would call a 5 yard pass.I felt like he had no balls and that just drove me nuts.


Almost every first down was a run play too...its all starting to come back, like bad acid reflux

Hiring a coach from Dallas to be the Redskins head coach brought a curse to this organization. When Norv goes back home to Dallas, the curse will be lifted and all will be right again!

Failure. I'll give him 2000, becuase I'm putting that year on Danny. He had a good team in 1999, had Danny not bought the team could he have taken it somewhere? Who knows.

IMO, that 99' team was good enough to win the Super Bowl, and if it wasent for the collapse in Tampa, I think they very well might have.

Overall though, numbers dont lie, its a failure. I'm interested to see how many coaches started 7-1 and missed the playoffs.

Oh hell, Gmanc! Stop kicking us when we're down. I know I was stationed in Colorado Springs that year. What year was that '96? '97? The pain...looks like I'm hitting the bottle tonight.

1997. Ugh..

The guy is a classic coordinator not head coach. Zero personality and heart, just see his record in Oakland.

The guy is a classic coordinator not head coach. Zero personality and heart, just see his record in Oakland.Norv Turner record as Oakland HC: 9-23

Oakland combined record in the year that preceeded and the year followed Turner: 6-26

Oakland record against Washington Redskins in that 4 year time-span: 1-0

Study with statistically insignificant results: Priceless!

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Oh hell, Gmanc! Stop kicking us when we're down. I know I was stationed in Colorado Springs that year. What year was that '96? '97? The pain...looks like I'm hitting the bottle tonight.

I went to the game in Buffalo that year, the game that started the downward spiral...I just remember looking at a Redskins fan on the way out (I was like 8 at the time and he goes "At least were still 7-2" and I remember clear as day going " Have you watched this team the last 4 years?...I got a bad feeling" 9 weeks later, it was over.

Norv had shitty player to say the least. He really did OK with the offense but the defense was non-existent. I still can't get over that 7-1 start that went all for null. I would have no issue with having him as a offensive coordinator but I'm not so sure he is cut out to be a head coach. He is simply too nice and unlike Tony Dungy he doesn't have great players to compensate for his "niceness."

The mid-nineties were so catastrophic to a Redskins fan's psyche. It was a time (for some of us) in which the shadow of the first Gibbs era still cast a looming shadow. The multitude excuses and emphatic "wait till next year" phrases were tossed around like beads at a Mardi Gras parade. It was the start of the era of "The Quick Fix". I can remember thinking every year that we were still a powerhouse team from the eighties, we just needed one or two guys to come in and shore up a weak spot.

Well over a decade later, the same stagnant thoughts float dismally in my head. And I still say "wait till next year". Weird!

Who could forget the phrase "What we have works!"

Good OC, lousy coach. I remember wondering every week how we were going to "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."