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Wile_E_Coyote · 10:44 AM

Chargers | Turner hired as new head coach
Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:12:02 -0800 Jay Glazer, of FOXSports.com, reports the San Diego Chargers have hired Norv Turner as their new head coach. Terms of the deal were undisclosed. Turner had been serving as the offensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers.

Updated: Feb. 19, 2007, 11:34 AM ET
Sources: Chargers will hire Turner as next head coach

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

San Francisco 49ers offensive coordinator Norv Turner has agreed in principle to become the San Diego Chargers' next coach, sources told ESPN.com.

In addition to the Turner hiring, longtime league assistant coach Ted Cottrell will meet early this week with San Diego officials which should result in the Chargers hiring Cottrell as the club's new defensive coordinator.

Cottrell, who worked in the NFL office in 2006, has extensive experience with the 3-4 defense that San Diego used last season.

Turner is one of six candidates to have interviewed for the position. The other known head coach candidates -- Gary Gibbs (New Orleans), Mike Zimmer (Atlanta), Mike Singletary (San Francisco), Ron Rivera (Chicago) and Rex Ryan (Baltimore) -- are all coaches whose expertise is on the defensive side. All but Singletary are current coordinators.

Turner has twice previously been a head coach in the league. Cottrell has interviewed in the past for head coach positions, and came very close to landing the top job in San Francisco four years ago, but the meeting with Chargers officials is strictly an interview for the team's defensive coordinator spot, several sources said.

San Diego officials prefer to retain a 3-4 defense, the scheme for which the personnel is best suited, and hiring Cottrell would permit that. Cottrell was actually recommended to Schottenheimer by Smith when then-Chargers defensive coordinator Wade Phillips was hired by the Dallas Cowboys as their new head coach.

Marty Schottenheimer instead leaned toward hiring his younger brother, Kurt Schottenheimer, as the replacement for Phillips. In addition to Marty Schottenheimer, the Chargers, who posted an NFL-best 14-2 record in 2006 but were ousted in the divisional round of the playoffs, have lost five assistant coaches since the end of the season. That includes both coordinators.

Cottrell, 59, possesses 22 seasons of NFL experience as an assistant coach, including three stints as a defensive coordinator. He most recently worked as coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings (2004-2005). Cottrell lost his job when the Vikings fired coach Mike Tice after the 2005 season.
Len Pasquarelli is a senior writer for ESPN.com.

BigRock · 02-19-2007, 11:14 AM

AJ SMITH IS A GENIUSH!

chagrin · 02-19-2007, 11:17 AM

How does this guy continue to get gigs? This is hilarious, hard to fug up LT though - they've got a very solid team

Archie Bunker · 02-19-2007, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by BigRock

AJ SMITH IS A GENIUSH!

He got his yes man that's for sure. I think they will find out how good a coach Marty really was not to mention Phillips and Cameron.

Reerun_KC · 02-19-2007, 11:21 AM

Wow, now 2 of the biggest morons and losers are coaching in the AFC West.... Herm and Turner...

Denver is the only stable organization out there....

nychief · 02-19-2007, 11:21 AM

AJ Smith misses drafting in the top half of the draft.

Ted Cottrell?

We might have a Dave Campo sighting in SD.

bogie · 02-19-2007, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by chagrin

How does this guy continue to get gigs? This is hilarious, hard to fug up LT though - they've got a very solid team

This is what I'm thinking. I fear they've got at least one good year left before they go into the sh*tter.

nychief · 02-19-2007, 11:22 AM

They should have hired Al Saunders.

el borracho · 02-19-2007, 11:24 AM

2007 Chargers = 9-7

Eleazar · 02-19-2007, 11:24 AM

We're going to win the division this year.

Frankie · 02-19-2007, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Wile_E_Coyote

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Marty Schottenheimer instead leaned toward hiring his younger brother, Kurt Schottenheimer, as the replacement for Phillips............

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All of you celebrating must have missed the above Pasquarelli report from the text. That's good enough grounds for firing Marty.

Archie Bunker · 02-19-2007, 11:25 AM

Come on Frankie, spit it out.

boogblaster · 02-19-2007, 11:26 AM

Hello mom, Ive got a new job ..yea they gave me the top team in the NFL to **** up..ain't that great...

Frankie · 02-19-2007, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Archie Bunker

Come on Frankie, spit it out.

Done.

JBucc · 02-19-2007, 11:27 AM

This is so ****ing awesome. The would have been better off letting LT call the offensive plays and Steroidman call the D.

Brock · 02-19-2007, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Frankie

All of you celebrating must have missed the above Pasquarelli report from the text. That's good enough grounds for firing Marty.

So hiring Norv Turner is the next logical step?

02-19-2007, 10:30 AM
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