Chargers to Hire Turner - Era of Mediocrity to Begin

[sportscurmudgeon]

TAFKAS:

Why not Dennis Green?

Here's why I would not hire Dennis Green ever again in the NFL:


1. He is a control freak of the same magnitude as a Parcells. The only difference is that he hasn't won anything.


2. After the Vikings lost that horrid game to the Giants in the playoffs five years ago (wasn't it 41-0 or something like that?), Green was exposed as a guy who lived off the talent on his team. He did not get good players to play like great players; he had a big strong armed QB throw the ball deep to a big and athletic receiver or short to a guy who could catch a speeding bullet. Oh, and he had a pretty good RB (Robert Smith) too. But no one ever got any better from year to year. In fact, you could argue that Culpepper and Moss got worse under Green's tutelage. Robert Smith retired early rather than play out his contract with Green at the helm of the team. If you owned the Chargers, would you take that chance with LT?

3. His tenure in Arizona was just miserable. He took over a team that could not run the ball at all. He left after three years with a team that could not run the ball at all - - after he spent a lot of the owner's money signing Edgerrin James.


4. Dennis Green has had "relationship" difficulties in Minny and in Arizona; he threatened to sue the former owner of the Vikings if they did not agree to sell the team to him and a group of his friends. That suit went nowhere when "the group" could not come up with even half of the downpayment to buy the team if the owner were to put it up for sale. In Texas they call that "all hat; no cattle."


Other than that, he'd be on my short list if I owned the Chargers...