(AP) -- San Diego Chargers President Dean Spanos has decided to keep coach Norv Turner and general manager A.J. Smith despite the team missing the playoffs for the second straight season amid increasing fan discontent.
Spanos made his decision Tuesday, two days after the Chargers finished 8-8 by beating Oakland to keep the Raiders out of the playoffs.
Turner is 49-31 in five years in San Diego but only 3-3 in the playoffs.
He is 107-113-1 in three stints as a head coach, including with Washington and Oakland.
Both of those teams fired him.
Jerry Angelo was fired as the Chicago Bears' general manager Tuesday following a team collapse marked by injuries to Jay Cutler and Matt Forte and a drug scandal involving receiver Sam Hurd.
Angelo had been on the job 11 years, a stretch in which the Bears reached one Super Bowl and advanced to another NFC championship game.
An 8-8 record this season, a questionable draft record and an inability to fill big holes, particularly on offense, led to his ouster.
His dismissal comes after a wild season in which the Bears atone point seemed a lock to make the playoffs.
A five-game losing streak, however, spoiled a 7-3 start and kept Chicago out of the playoffs for the fourth time in five years.
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