"I see your coaching mistakes, and I raise"

These are the words that Norv Turner seemed to utter to John Fox in the final minute of overtime in today's must win matchup against their division rival Broncos. With about three minutes left in the game, the Broncos dropped Mike Tolbert for a loss at the 35 yard line on a third down play. Instead of John Fox calling a timeout instantly after the play (in case San Diego missed the field goal), he waited until there were two seconds left on the play clock to stop the clock. In this situation, you have to either stop the clock right away with a TO, or save that possibly much needed timeout for the game-winning field goal drive.

This was only the beginning of the coaching gaffes from the overtime. After San Diego missed their game winning field goal attempt, Tebow and Denver drove down the field to put themselves in field goal range. Willis McGahee barged 24 yards on a read option to get down to the Chargers' 17 yard line with a little under two minutes remaining. The next play, Tebow centered the ball on a kneel play to the 19 yard line with 1:17 to play in the game.

Instead, of calling a time out in case Prater missed the field goal, Norv Turner decided to let the clock run down. But this wasn't even the biggest coaching mistake of the play. Denver's kicking unit got on the field late, and with no timeouts, they were about to take a delay of game penalty to set them back for a not so automatic 42-43 yard field goal. Don't worry Broncos fans, Tim Tebow seemed to use his Jedi Mind Tricks to convince Norv Turner to call a timeout with exactly one second left on the play clock to bail out the Broncos.

This prevented the delay of game and washed away John Fox's mistake in the process. Though the outcome of the game may have not been changed by these terrible coaching mistakes, coaches like these (Fox and Turner) will cost the team probably one or two games a year because of terrible clock/game management like the examples from the end of this game.

San Diego is all but eliminated from the playoffs after dropping to 4-7. When will Norv be fired?