Here is one the most recent examples from Michael Silver yesterday:
Who is Michael Silver?
A national sports columnist who is known to have a strong anti-Chargers, anti-Spanos, anti-A.J. Smith bias (hmm.. maybe Family Matters is a Michael Silver alias?)..FM, you do realize that even though the national media picks up a story angle and runs with it, it doesn't make it the truth. If you are willing to take Mr. Silver's one sentence account of what happened over Jim Trotter's
full article describing in detail what led to Marty's dismissal when Trotter was the Union-Trib's Chargers reporter, well that is your prerogative. But it doesn't make it reality.
Now, if you want to say the Marty no longer wanted to be head coach of the Chargers because of his conflict with A.J. Smith, and took actions to get himself fired, you may have a point. But if that is the case, why not just resign? And even if he decided to get himself fired because of that, that doesn't mean A.J. ousted him in a power struggle. That just means Marty wasn't willing to work for A.J. Smith and Dean Spanos under the conditions they set. Obviously, other coaches were and are.
I agree that Turner didn't look like a great hire at the time (and even worse now), but I understood the reason for the choice. I just thought it was a poor reason for choosing a proven mediocre coach (generous?) over an untested rookie head coach.