Bobby Turner’s knack with 49ers running backs still going strong at 75 (paywall)
“Not long after Mike Shanahan hired Turner, he approached quarterback John Elway with a stack of papers. It was the voluminous test Turner made his running backs take the day before a game. And it wasn’t limited to questions about their position.
“I gave it to Elway and said, ‘John, this is what good coaches do,’” Mike Shanahan said. “‘Look at the detail that he has. And the questions that he’s asking the running backs. It’s got to make you feel pretty comfortable when you’ve got assistant coaches that are asking everybody’s responsibility.