San Diego Chargers

A Bay Area native from Martinez, California, this is Turner’s second stint with the Chargers. He spent the 2001 season as the Bolts’ offensive coordinator under head coach Mike Riley and improved the Bolts offensive ranking from 28th to 11th. The Chargers still run the same offense that Turner implemented in 2001.

Turner’s coaching experience includes nine as a head coach, seven for the Washington Redskins (1994-2000) and two with the Oakland Raiders (2004-05). He spent 13 seasons as an NFL assistant coach, including seven as an offensive coordinator with the Dallas Cowboys (1991-93), Chargers (2001), Miami Dolphins (2002-03) and 49ers (2006). He began his NFL coaching career as an assistant with the Los Angeles Rams in 1985. He coached wide receivers from 1985-86 before adding the responsibility of the team’s tight ends from 1987-1990.

Turner made his coaching mark during his three seasons in Dallas. Serving under head coach Jimmy Johnson, the Cowboys won back-to-back Super Bowls (XXVII and XXVIII) following the 1992 and ’93 seasons.

Catapulting off his success in Dallas, Turner was hired as the head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1994. He spent seven seasons in Washington, leading the Redskins to four winning seasons, including a 10-6 mark that landed the Skins an NFC East title in 1999. It was their first division title since 1991. Turner’s ’99 squad beat Detroit in an NFC Wild Card Playoff game before falling to Tampa Bay in the divisional playoff round. Turner went 49-59-1 in Washington. He was let go by the Skins with three games to go and a 7-6 mark in 2000.

After spending the 2001 season with the Chargers, Turner spent two seasons (2002-03) as the assistant head coach/offensive coordinator on Dave Wannstedt's staff in Miami. The Dolphins went 9-7 in 2002 and 10-6 in 2003 with Turner calling the plays. Ricky Williams rushed for a combined 3,225 yards and 25 touchdowns in those two seasons for the Dolphins. He posted the two highest single-season rushing totals in team history, racking up 1,853 yards in ’02 and 1,372 yards in ’03.

Turner was a three-year letterman (1972-74) as a quarterback at the University of Oregon, spending two seasons behind former Charger and NFL Hall of Fame QB Dan Fouts. He graduated from Oregon in 1975 and spent that season as a graduate assistant with the Ducks.

In 1976, Turner moved on to the University of Southern California where he spent the next nine seasons as the Trojans’ wide receivers coach (1976-79), defensive backs coach (1980), quarterbacks coach (1981-83) and offensive coordinator (1984). In 1980, Turner tutored what is regarded by many as one of the finest defensive backfields in college football history. It included safeties Ronnie Lott and Dennis Smith, both of whom went on to become NFL first-round draft choices in 1981. Also playing in that backfield was Tennessee Titans Head Coach Jeff Fisher, who was selected in the seventh round of the ’81 draft. During Turner's nine-year tenure at USC, the Trojans played in four Rose Bowls, winning all four. One of those was a win over Michigan after the 1978 season that capped a 12-1 season and gave SC the National Championship.

Turner and his wife, Nancy, have three children, Scott, Stephanie and Drew.