Nov 30th 2008 11:00AM by Ryan Wilson (author feed)
Filed under: Chargers, Raiders, AFC West, NFL Fans, NFL Coaching, NFL Rumors
Warren Sapp, fresh off not winning , returned to his full-time job as teevee analyst for NFL Network. During , Kara Henderson, in San Diego for today’s Falcons-Chargers game, asked Sapp about embattled coach Norv Turner, who has “led” San Diego to a 4-7 record in one of the worst divisions in football.

Sapp, who verbalizes every thought that comes into his brain, was predictably frank: “I tell you what, [owner] Dean Spanos and [general manager] A.J. Smith need to do their homework because the two years I played with Norv Turner, we did not practice the two-minute offense or defense one time. So when you look at the game last week … and Norv using his timeouts in a bad situation, that’s why.

He does not practice time management in a game; I’ve been with him two years — he don’t do it. Sapp’s co-analyst, Marshall Faulk, was shocked by the revelation: “I don’t know how you can get by in the NFL and not go over two-minute offense … that’s impossible.”

Apparently, you “get by” by going 4-7.

Now, I have no reason to believe Sapp is making stuff up, but I also find it damn near impossible to think Turner doesn’t devote at least some practice time to the two-minute drill. Wherever the truth may lie, Norval Eugene’s job is safe for 2009, which must make Chargers fans very happy.