Yep, the Chargers who imploded on themselves in every facet of the game against the Jets, have brought back Norv Turner to run the offense. Not just for one year, or two. But for four more seasons! That curiously disgusting sound you’re hearing is the collective fan base of the Chargers all puking at the same time. The Chargers finished with the second best record in the league at 13-3 SU, going just 8-7-1 ATS as well.

Perhaps the funniest thing about the whole thing is that team president Dean Spanos credited Norv for doing, “an outstanding job and I look forward to the next four years.” Not that I’m a prophet or anything, but a lot of coaches could’ve made the playoffs in four of the past fives pro NFL football betting seasons and never gone to the Super Bowl. Especially in the AFC West.

Think about this logically. The Chargers have been loaded with talent for what seems like the entire decade. This season alone they had Tomlinson, Sproles, Vincent, Gates, Rivers, Merriman, Jammer…I mean the list goes on and on of premier players that this team has.

Also consider that the AFC West division absolutely stinks and they comprise six games for the Chargers every year. Since 2005, the AFC West has crumbled in to a desert wasteland. The Chargers have won four of the last five AFC West titles, and during that run the only team to make the wild card spot was the 2006 Kansas City Chiefs. I know we say that the AFC West is one of the toughest divisions in footballs, but that hasn’t been the case for years.

Norv Turner is damn lucky. He’s been lucky to win in a suspiciously underachieving division for the last half-decade and he’s lucky to have been surrounded with so much talent that it overshadows his inability to get over the hump in the playoffs.

The saddest part about this is that Philip Rivers, who is now 28-years old might be in the twilight of his career by the time the Chargers get rid of Norv. Rivers is definitely one of the more talented quarterbacks in the league, but without the coach to push things over the top for his team, he’ll never win. Why the Chargers’ brass can’t see what their fans, and the rest of their league, does is perhaps even more painful than their divisional playoff loss to the underdog Jets.


Philips Gets Two More Years In Second Chance

The news out of Dallas is that all Wade Philips had to do to keep his job was win one playoff game, and probably the division as well. Well mission accomplished. I guess playing like an absolute coward and making insanely ill-informed decisions in the divisional playoff game against the Vikings didn’t matter to Jerry Jones and the Cowboys. It should matter to the Cowboys’ betting faithful.

The Cowboys ripped off an 11-5 SU record while going 9-7 ATS. Philips is more responsible for making the calls on the defensive side of the ball, which makes it even more perplexing that the Cowboys would bring him back so quickly after allowing 34-points against Minnesota.

The truth of the Cowboys’ “success” this year is that it was built on a hot streak. They had a very soft schedule to open the season but were clobbered twice this year by the Giants and also racked up losses to San Diego and Green Bay. They seemed to have the Eagles figured out, and they had a terrific gameplan against the Saints but other than that, we’re not talking about an excessively difficult end-of-the-year run.
As I’ve said, the Cowboys had the Eagles by the claws all season. Any team can get hot at the end of the year and the fact is that the Cowboys have always had the potential to compete whether they have Felix Jones or Marion Barber, Terrell Owens or Roy Williams. It doesn’t matter. They’re a good team, but like the Chargers they need somebody who can gear them up to play on the road when they need to bag serious wins.
Philips has proven he is not that coach. So why bother keeping him for another two years when Jason Garrett is waiting in the wings? Despite a poor effort against Minnesota, do you think it’ll be long before Garrett gets snatched up by another team?

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