Not sure who your guys’ ST coach is, but Norv putting it all on him is pretty lame. The dissension in that locker room is going to get nuts.

Just for the sake of making things interesting, I hope AJ has a trade in him.

I read BFTB regularly but I don’t ever recall writing before this week but I did because the general disconnect between fantasy and reality about this team is astounding. This team, as it is right now, is NOT A WINNER. It pains me to say that, but I think it’s pretty obvious. And the fans living with their heads in the sand making excuses for the team are ridiculous.

Much like the Sacramento Kings in the early ,00’s and the Atlanta Braves of the 90’s, this team is a collection of great talent without the knowledge and mentality to be a champion. They don’t have the toughness it takes to take that last step. And although it seems like typical Charger Fan won’t agree with me (at least that’s the way it comes across when they’re using their “tough guy” mentality), yapping and puffing your chest out on the field and in the media doesn’t make you tough.

The team as a WHOLE needs to be overhauled. It’s the only way this culture of “we’re great, we only lost because……..(enter excuse here)” is going to change and the Bolts are going to be the team we’d like them to be.

Maybe a little humility (aka reality) from Charger fan wouldn’t hurt either. As a fan when you’re more worried about having to hear barking from Bronco fan about the win than what the team did to cause the loss, perhaps you should tone down the yapping to begin with.

My two cents, obviousman.

But suffice it to say that it changes the game. The Broncos seem to have a pattern to their games where they start slow on offense and give up some scores on defense, then they turn it around in the second half. The Chargers really needed to take advantage of that better than the Cowboys or Patriots did where they both got 10 points before the Broncos started scoring. If you don’t fail so miserably on special teams maybe you could build a 13 point lead or a 17 point lead or possibly even a 20 point lead (the number of points they scored in the first half). That would have changed how the Broncos approached the rest of the game (maybe). So, I think what Turner is hinting at is that the bad special teams plays made it a different type of game than they wanted to play. It’s a case where you had a good idea what you could do on offense to beat them and what you could do on defense to stop them, but special teams got in the way of making it only about those two parts and that’s a shame. So, in that sense, you can blame the special teams for not living up to their end of the bargain.

At the same time, there’s absolutely no guarantee that the Broncos wouldn’t have driven down the field and scored on those drives anyways.

Numerous people were saying this yesterday and it just doen’t make sense to assume they score on both of those. It is a hypothetical situation to could just as easily have resulted in 2 punts. The bottom line is the special teams gave up 14 points against a good team that didn’t need any handicaps.

Without those two TD’s, the Chargers probably do win. That’s not an excuse for losing. That’s just pinning the blame where it belongs. The coverage teams lost this game pretty much all by themselves.

The Chargers still led the game after the first half and those 2 touchdowns. It still doesn’t account for the dominating performance by the Broncos in the second half and the Chargers inability to respond.