hire. I think the Chargers just have too much talent to fall that far. While I hate the hiring of these retreads (I recall joking on a podcast awhile back that Norv Turner was probably gonna get a job) I don't think he'll be that terrible. People always lauded Jimmy Johnson as this super coach but I remember him also not getting it done with a mediocre Miami Dolphins team jsut as much as all that success he had with the Cowboys. There's like a bajillion examples of this but i'm tired.

Now i do know that Turner has a lot to prove and if the Chargers take a significant step back this year (that doesn't mean anything less than 14-2 again is necessarily a failure) then he should be gone even after one year.

The real incompetent in that division is Mike Shanahan. I've never seen a coach resting on his Super Bowl laurels longer than he has. I don't think anyone in the west is close to overtaking the Chargers, at least not this year.