CHARGERS ARE DONE! And here's why...

[Joshecalpoly]

Its going to be hard to sign all these guys:
Legedu Naane
Randy McMichael
Jeromey Clary
Jacques Cesaire
Antwan Applewhite
Kevin Burnett
Eric Weddle
Darren Sproles
Vincent Jackson
Stephen Cooper
Brandon Siler
Paul Oliver
Malcom Floyd

Then next year you have Garay Crayton Hardwick and Scrifes all as FA that have been important to your team.

I know many that I listed arent all that important to the Chargers but they are vital, especially with how badly youve needed them for depth this year. Your GM will have to unclench his wallet if he wants to keep his team in tact.

[mct1967]

what about your prediction that the donks would have their worst season in over 30 years?

I never said that--so stop inventing crap misquotes.

[theshiverman]

4-11 bro....soon to be 4-12.

How does a coach that managed to bring the only moments of glory to a franchise lose his job when the owner said it was his job for as long as he wanted it. Then hire a 37 year old "offensive genious" and then turn their back on hi after less then 2 years?

And you laugh at us?? Thank you Pat for dooming the Broncos for the next few years to the cellar.

You sound happy to have Norv back for another season...congrats

[theshiverman]

The San Diego Chargers through out their history have shown they can't win playoff games--even when they're favored. In the last 4 years prognosticators like Chris Berman on ESPN and many others pick the Chargers to win a SB, but the Chargers can never play to their potential. The Chargers have talent, but their recent playoff loss to the Jets and their '06 playoff loss are perfect examples of their lack of focus, lack of leadership and inability to be smart on and off the field. A smart athlete doesn't stay out late partying the night before a playoff game, which is what several Chargers seem to like doing and a smart athlete doesn't get called for PF flags during a playoff game.

With LT gone and possibly Sproles gone the Chargers will have no running game. If an injury happens to Rivers, the Chargers' offense is done. Rivers the last few years has been lucky that he's had no injuries to reduce his productivity. I believe his injury-free seasons will soon come to an end. In the NFL, every starter usually has to contend with an injury every few seasons and miss games....Rivers is due. The Chargers as a team are getting old. Injuries will become more frequent...this "talented" Charger team is running out of time.

The Chargers had a mediocre defense last year and were mediocre against the pass--against the run the Chargers ranked 20th. Cro may be on the way out and Merriman has no talent left, only worthless trash-talking.

With their inability to win in the playoffs in recent years, the Chargers as a team are also losing confidence in themselves. Against the Jets, the Charger offense sputtered and had to rely on field-goal attempts. Then Kaeding (an excellent kicker) choked on all his kicks. All examples of a Charger team succumbing to playoff pressure and lack of confidence. The Colts, a supremely talented and confident team, who knows how to win in the playoffs....destroyed the Jets in the 2nd half of their playoff game.

Jackson can't seem to stay out of trouble and other Chargers keep getting in bar-fights and/or brought up on assault charges. All this is the mark on an undiciplined, out-of-control team. It seems San Diego's NFL team is correctly named.....Chargers = charges.

Norv Turner is just a "yes-man" to AJ and has no real power. Turner is the classic docile, "yes-man" coach---he was a "yes-man" to Al Davis and a "yes-man" in Washington. His only years of success were as an OC in Dallas, but a trained monkey could've been a successful OC in Dallas in the '90s, with all the HOF talent the Cowboys had at that time. Before Turner.....Marty had balls and wouldn't blindly go with what AJ wanted....so AJ (the control-freak) fires a fine coach who rebuilt a horrible Charger team into a 14-2 contender. The stupidity of Charger mgmt is beyond description.

AJ has current and former players who hate the way he runs the team and don't like his decisions. Rodney Harrison has gone on record and severely criticised AJ and other players have voiced negative viewpoints about AJ. This is why Eli Manning isn't your QB. AJ's mocking of LT in the media last year is a perfect example of his unprofessionalism.

The Chargers stadium has problems selling-out, because fans are tired of the inconsistency and playoff losses.

The Chargers had 4 seasons with a talented team to get to a SB and failed all four years. Two of those years they finished their seasons with epic playoff chokes.

The Chargers can be summed up with this sentence.....An overrated team with no heart and a team who's recent years of success will be ending, because of injuries and free-agency.

Slam Dunk...windows shut!

[baphamet]

Dec. '10....Most of my '10 Springtime predictions came true regarding the Chargers. Now I get to gloat.

In Sept. on Yahoo I argued with a bunch of Chargers fans and predicted that the Chargers would not win the division in '10 and not make the playoffs. I was right again. However I will admit I didn't see the Broncos collapse and rise of the Cheifs.

But now I can add some tidbits of how overrated and pathetic the Chargers are...

1. How can a team be in the top-5 in offense and defense and not make the playoffs? Only the Chargers can be ranked that high and figure out how to miss the playoffs--PATHETIC!

2. Chargers have been picked over and over and over all year long to win the AFC-West and go on the same win streak they did last year. Last years' team and this years' Chargers are vastly different. Many players of the '06-'09 teams are gone. How these pundits can think a team with different players will play the same as previous years' players is absurd. I hope the media will now finally get off the Chargers bandwagon. The Chargers have some talent, but don't know how to win when it counts--PATHETIC!

3. How can the Chargers beat the Colts, then lose to the Raiders twice and lose to the Bengals?!! PATHETIC!

4. How can a top-5 ranked O and D team lose so many games on the road--PATHETIC!

5. And for A.J.---This guy never ceases to amaze me with how childish and insulting he is with his own players. He's pretty cheap too...doesn't want to pay for talent, so when a couple key Chargers hold out for more money, he gets his petty revenge by screwing with their contracts. Those players will soon be gone, just like the other good ex-Chargers prospering with other
teams--PATHETIC!

The Chargers will never win a Super Bowl as long as AJ is their GM.

what about your prediction that the donks would have their worst season in over 30 years?

[NFLfan..MLBzzzz]

Dec. '10....Most of my '10 Springtime predictions came true regarding the Chargers. Now I get to gloat.

In Sept. on Yahoo I argued with a bunch of Chargers fans and predicted that the Chargers would not win the division in '10 and not make the playoffs. I was right again. However I will admit I didn't see the Broncos collapse and rise of the Cheifs.

But now I can add some tidbits of how overrated and pathetic the Chargers are...

1. How can a team be in the top-5 in offense and defense and not make the playoffs? Only the Chargers can be ranked that high and figure out how to miss the playoffs--PATHETIC!

2. Chargers have been picked over and over and over all year long to win the AFC-West and go on the same win streak they did last year. Last years' team and this years' Chargers are vastly different. Many players of the '06-'09 teams are gone. How these pundits can think a team with different players will play the same as previous years' players is absurd. I hope the media will now finally get off the Chargers bandwagon. The Chargers have some talent, but don't know how to win when it counts--PATHETIC!

3. How can the Chargers beat the Colts, then lose to the Raiders twice and lose to the Bengals?!! PATHETIC!

4. How can a top-5 ranked O and D team lose so many games on the road--PATHETIC!

5. And for A.J.---This guy never ceases to amaze me with how childish and insulting he is with his own players. He's pretty cheap too...doesn't want to pay for talent, so when a couple key Chargers hold out for more money, he gets his petty revenge by screwing with their contracts. Those players will soon be gone, just like the other good ex-Chargers prospering with other
teams--PATHETIC!

The Chargers will never win a Super Bowl as long as AJ is their GM.

4-11 bro....soon to be 4-12.

How does a coach that managed to bring the only moments of glory to a franchise lose his job when the owner said it was his job for as long as he wanted it. Then hire a 37 year old "offensive genious" and then turn their back on hi after less then 2 years?

And you laugh at us?? Thank you Pat for dooming the Broncos for the next few years to the cellar.

[mct1967]

Dec. '10....Most of my '10 Springtime predictions came true regarding the Chargers. Now I get to gloat.

In Sept. on Yahoo I argued with a bunch of Chargers fans and predicted that the Chargers would not win the division in '10 and not make the playoffs. I was right again. However I will admit I didn't see the Broncos collapse and rise of the Cheifs.

But now I can add some tidbits of how overrated and pathetic the Chargers are...

1. How can a team be in the top-5 in offense and defense and not make the playoffs? Only the Chargers can be ranked that high and figure out how to miss the playoffs--PATHETIC!

2. Chargers have been picked over and over and over all year long to win the AFC-West and go on the same win streak they did last year. Last years' team and this years' Chargers are vastly different. Many players of the '06-'09 teams are gone. How these pundits can think a team with different players will play the same as previous years' players is absurd. I hope the media will now finally get off the Chargers bandwagon. The Chargers have some talent, but don't know how to win when it counts--PATHETIC!

3. How can the Chargers beat the Colts, then lose to the Raiders twice and lose to the Bengals?!! PATHETIC!

4. How can a top-5 ranked O and D team lose so many games on the road--PATHETIC!

5. And for A.J.---This guy never ceases to amaze me with how childish and insulting he is with his own players. He's pretty cheap too...doesn't want to pay for talent, so when a couple key Chargers hold out for more money, he gets his petty revenge by screwing with their contracts. Those players will soon be gone, just like the other good ex-Chargers prospering with other
teams--PATHETIC!

The Chargers will never win a Super Bowl as long as AJ is their GM.

[SLVR and Black]

Sproles got tendered today a 1st and 3rd round tender.It looks like he is staying in San Diego next season.A little cat and mouse game they are playing with the league and Sproles.

They tagged him last year, and now they tender him with first and a third? The Chargers either really, really want to keep him or they're incredibly desperate, he's going to be pretty darn expensive to keep. Makes me wonder how Sproles feels about things.

[Boltheads]

almost all of them are gone, they had their chance for SB Glory and woosh it is gone, the offense half the NFL Dreams of, We might be able to crush the Chargers next year, depends on who we and they, draft, team i repeat team

We lost two of our most ineffective players - LT and Jamaal Williams. Their replacements should be better. Yet, your team that self-distructed (again) at the end of the season "might be able to CRUSH the Chargers next season"? Oakland and KC ran all over your old, tired, under-sized defense to end the year.

Somebody's got a case of the Rockie Mountain Highs

[BroncoSexyDaddy]

Sproles got tendered today a 1st and 3rd round tender.It looks like he is staying in San Diego next season.A little cat and mouse game they are playing with the league and Sproles.

[Superbronk]

LT Sproles and Rivers, OH MY

almost all of them are gone, they had their chance for SB Glory and woosh it is gone, the offense half the NFL Dreams of, We might be able to crush the Chargers next year, depends on who we and they, draft, team i repeat team

[jhildebrand]

Bla bla bla. Bla bla bla. Talking out of the side of my face. Bla bla bla

ROD: This one's for you!!

[BigDaddyBronco]

Decisions that make or break championships

What I don't understand is the blind loyalty Charger Nation has for its GM AJ Smith. He made a decision 2 years ago that very well could have cost SD a Championship. The same type of hard decision that the Patriots make all the time. Which is why they continue to be in the mix every year.

They had the option of trading Tomlinson 2 years ago and keeping M. Turner... Instead they lost both and received nothing in return for either. When you have a player like Richard Seymore who is about to UFA you have options and those options are sign him, trade him or let him walk... For all circumstances there are reasons to at times to do any of the three options... I said this at the time they were letting Turner walk that it was a huge mistake with LT on the decline to do that... They could have easily got a 2nd rounder for LT... Hell maybe even a 1st rounder or another player in a trade. But AJ wasn't brave enough to pull the trigger. Those extra picks could be spent on other positions of need while still having Turner in the backfield. A huge mistake and one that will eventually be pointed out as we watch the Chargers ramp up for another run.

The Chargers are a very good team with a very good QB they will always be competitive as long as Rivers is there... But there have been better QB's that have not won a superbowl... Its decisions like the one above that can make or break a title run. Decisions like trading a first round pick (in one of the most talented draft classes in years) for a back up corner like McDaniels did last year that go under the radar but in a league of equality its the little decisions that add up to championships...

The Chargers aren't done. They are just getting started at piling up good regular seasons records with 2nd round exits... Miami Dolphins of the 80's and 90's anyone?

[ChargersDivison]

Which center in your deluded mind do you think Hardwick is going to supplant in the probowl if injury free ? Nick Mangold, N.Y. Jets not only the probowl but the concensus all pro center or Kevin Mawae, Tennessee perenial probowl and former all-pro center? McNeil made the probowl twice not 3 times. Rookie year and second year which everyone knows wasn't even deserved. Your Oline is a problem from what I have read the chargers are even looking to replace your RT Clary. elite if healthy..rofls the only thing keeping Rivers on his feet is play action and a scary screen game. Oline and dline are a problem for the Chargers I'm not sure which is w a worse problem but I am sure they will address them as soon as they get a rb.

The same center he supplanted when he made the probowl couple years ago. Mawae gets in more due to name recognition and is at the end of his career and made it due to CJ having 2000 plus yds.

Mcneil made it in 06, 07 and 08 and was a 2nd alternate in 09.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8053b226&template=without-video&confirm=true

Look at the far right.

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ol

Top 5 in pass blocking and that was missing Hardwick, with a rookie RG and multiple players rotated at OC, RG and RT.

When Healthy SD is a top 3 pass blocking o-line and capable of being top 5 overall.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/10851305

Had us ranked #2. Sure it was back in 08.

RT is our 1 weak spot.

D-line was only weak due to injury, AGAIN! 4 NT's on IR and constant rotation on the entire d-line due to injury. SD does need a new RDE, unless Vance Martin is ready to be that or with Jamal healthy, Nwagbuo can take over the RDE spot.

[Boltheads]

and you have never been guilty of that yourself at all...

pot meet kettle. the only thing that was a fact was he didn't have a 1000 yards the rest is speculation,opinion and crap.

Guilty of what? Opinion? Heck, here's how my responses breakdown.....

50% - Opinion
20% - Rants
10% - Clueless
10% - Drunk
5% - Wrong Forum
5% - Wife or Teenage daughter pretending to be me

The difference between me and said tool is that I don't try and persude people to respond to my lame posts.