By David HaughMIAMI -- Every day for the past four seasons, Greg McMahon has worked alongside one of the NFL's best play-callers. McMahon is the Saints' special-teams coordinator for head coach Sean Payton, an offensive whiz.
So that experience makes McMahon somewhat of an authority on the topic of offensive coordinators, which made his rousing endorsement of former Bears offensive coordinator Ron Turner all the more credible. Predictable, but credible.
"I don't think Ron's a good coach, I think he's a great coach,'' said McMahon, who coached under Turner during his head-coaching tenure at Illinois and spent 13 years overall on the Illini staff.
Photo: Ron Turner reportedly is up for the Giants' QB-coaching job. (Nam Y. Huh/AP)
That history and loyalty surely colored McMahon's opinion. But it
reflected a leaguewide consensus emerging down here among coaches asked
about Turner's forced exit from the Bears. Clearly, Turner lost his job
but not his reputation.
Reports say Turner has shown interest in the vacant quarterbacks coaching job in New York for the Giants that would allow him the chance to tutor Eli Manning, which would be the first step on the road back.
"Absolutely, he will be a coordinator again,'' McMahon said. "The thing I love about coach Turner is he's a man of honesty, no hidden agendas, smart, mentally tough. People like to work around guys like that."
Reports say Turner has shown interest in the vacant quarterbacks coaching job in New York for the Giants that would allow him the chance to tutor Eli Manning, which would be the first step on the road back.
"Absolutely, he will be a coordinator again,'' McMahon said. "The thing I love about coach Turner is he's a man of honesty, no hidden agendas, smart, mentally tough. People like to work around guys like that."
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Don't want a coordinator who runs plays that a defense already knows is coming before the snap. This happened too much and became a liability. Plain and simple.
2005 - wasn't Terry Shea the first OC hired by Lovie before turning over to Ron Turner? Refresh my memory.
In related news, Ron Turner's mother and father think he is a great person and think He'd make a great OC for another team.
The Bears were stupid in firing Turner.
1st the reason the bears were always at the bottom for points is because we do not have the players or a Qb that was any good.
2nd Angelo after he got Jay Cutler he never upgraded the Line or receivers. The bears had an old over the hill left tackle in Orlando Pace that the Bears brought in to protect the blindside and he totally sucked. We moved a first year left tackle in Williams and moved him to right which is not his natural position. You have good ol Frankie boy put in as a guard when he played left tackle all his life. So basically your working with a new QB with a crappy line and the QB has no time to throw the ball. Oh wait I forgot to add you take the best kick returner punt returner and make him into a receiver which we all know he is not. Then you add Earl Bennett a basically rookie receiver are your 2 starting receivers. You add Knox who is a true rookie and the team never upgraded the position all small receivers and Hester who is not a receiver. Then you add Forte who had a bad knee all season long and we couldn’t run the ball.
3rd The team was playing from behind because Lovie Smith never had a good game plan on D and our D basically sucked all year long so you expected a new QB to be your savor and you don’t give him the tools to do his job. Love should be fired not Turner.
4th Jay Cutler tossed and broke the bears record with so many interceptions that were his fault not Turner’s.
5th the last quarter of the year the Offense was soo much better and really showed what it could do. It took time for all the parts to work together and now we start with a new offensive coordinator and the whole team has to learn a new system so we start again from ground zero.
At the end of the year Bears fans will look at this as another mistake by Angelo and Smith and they will be fired and we bring in either Leslie Frazier or Bill Cower!!
Let's look at the number since this fool thinks Ron Turner is so great...
Total Points (Season) for the Bears
2009 23rd out of 32 teams
2008 26th out of 32 teams
2007 27th out of 32 teams
2006 15th out of 32 teams
2005 29th out of 32 teams
So Ron Turner has consistently finished at the bottom of NFL stats. Sorry folks, numbers don't lie. Ron Turner sucks.
Hey Haugh,
If you're going to use the word "Peers" - as in more than one, maybe you should quote MORE THAN ONE person! Otherwise this whole article is nothing but hearsay. Clearly you had a deadline coming, you made one phone call, wrote 3 paragraphs, and pressed "Send".
Riveting work!
Another thing... 99.95% of people reading this paper stopped caring about that incompetent loser the day he was fired.
Move on to your next topic..
Wow, really? Who else besides an unknown that worked for him holds him in high regard?? "Reports say Turner has shown interest in the vacant quarterbacks coaching job in New York for the Giants that would allow him the chance to tutor Eli Manning, which would be the first step on the road back."
I'm all for this. Go to NY and ruin Eli even more. I'm sure the fans will love Turner there!!