{"id":8453,"date":"2014-01-16T10:47:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8453"},"modified":"2014-01-16T10:47:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:47:31","slug":"report-norv-turner-closing-in-on-deal-to-become-vikings-oc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/16\/report-norv-turner-closing-in-on-deal-to-become-vikings-oc\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Norv Turner closing in on deal to become Vikings OC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8280\" alt=\"norvturner\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/norvturner.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/norvturner.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/norvturner-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/norvturner-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Norv Turner is reportedly close to a deal that will make him the offensive coordinator of the Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>Turner served in the same position in Cleveland in 2013 but with the Browns ditching head coach\u00a0Rob Chudzinski after just one year the coaching staff has been told to look for new jobs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Vikings and Norv Turner are close to a deal and league sources believe he will be Mike Zimmer&#39;s offensive coordinator in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/statuses\/423799595252973568\">January 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The hiring of Turner should improve a boost to the Vikings offense even as there is no clear franchise quarterback on the roster. Turner would would a few offensive weapons in Adrian Peterson and Cordarrelle Patterson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norv Turner is reportedly close to a deal that will make him the offensive coordinator of the Minnesota Vikings. Turner served in the same position in Cleveland in 2013 but with the Browns ditching head coach\u00a0Rob Chudzinski after just one year the coaching staff has been told to look for new jobs. Vikings and Norv [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-8453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8453"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}