McNeil was on that team. Apparently, my brain was mixing up him going into his 3rd season with actually playing 3 seasons. Dielman was also on that 2006 team (which I knew). Hardwick played for 2 seasons prior to that with the Roman Oben-Toniu Fonoti left side. Hardwick replaced Jason Ball, who was actually pretty solid, but basically headbutted the Chargers brass. 2003 also had journeymen Damion McIntosh and Kelvin Garmon on that left side. Again, not too shabby, but I’ll take the current one, thank you very much.

I still think your brain was meshing together the McNeil-Oben eras and that’s why you think McNeil’s been here so long. It feels like he just got here to me.

A place for the educated Chargers fans. I know you’re still fairly new, but wait until you see how great this blog becomes once training camp and the preseason start. There are one or two writers and a handful of commentors that aren’t around now because they’re too busy with other SB Nation blogs that deal with other sports (Richard Wade is writing for Bloody Elbow, Johnny Dub is over at Gaslamp Ball). When we’re running at full-capacity and there’s ongoing Chargers news, this blog is something to really be proud of.

OTHER Charger sites?
This is the only one I ever go to, and John doesn’t disappoint.

This is a daily (usually more than once) stop for me too.

I really enjoy the articles and the ensuing commentary from users. I am a younger fan who was not around for any of the Air Coryell days, and was not really old enough to know what was going on when we went to the super bowl. I watched with my family, but couldn’t have told you what the difference between a 3-4 vs a 4-3. So, I am glad that now that I really understand what terms/formations/strategy are used, there is a forum for expanding on that knowledge (i.e. X’s & O’s).

Thanks to the admins for helping make this a place for the football fan and not just charger fan. Everyone likes a little debating now and then, but it is very nice to read an article without reading about how much this team or that player suck and will get hurt or lose every game.

So, thank you for writing simple articles like this one that just show how and why players are brought in to fill holes or just add depth.

but your point is a good one, so I’ll leave this up. It also raises a good question: with everyone pulling for LT to return to form and Buster Davis to reach his potential, why isn’t anybody talking about Chambers? Does nobody have hope that he’ll recover after a down year?

This is the last comment like this that will stay up. And that’s because I will use it answer all of your criticisms of me and this blog.

obviousman you deleted my comments and you left the one where that dude slams me then you give me a warning about spamming…why because i didn’t agree with you i used no profane or obscene language at all and my rebuttal was not disrespectful to you or any other CHARGER fan so i guess i have to blindly agree with you on everything CHARGERS

The definition of spamming: Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. So no, it had nothing to do with you disagreeing with my opinion (which is very much welcome). It had nothing to do with your language either. You were abusing the comments section by posting 6 comments within 30 minutes (and 4 of them were just pasted comments from somewhere else). The comments sections of these posts are for commenting and debating on the post itself. If you’d like to make a FanPost of your own, you’re welcome to. Please see my guide on how to use BFTB.

that sounds like you want to censor any other opinion except your and the people that kiss your butt don’t be a douche bag….keep your blog bro i don’t want any part of it..i hope i can meet you at a game one day to see why you think you are far superior to everybody else dude

I don’t think I’m far superior to everyone else. Just the opposite, I AM everyone else. I have no secret access to AJ Smith or any Chargers players of coaches. I am a fan who likes to make points and back those points up with statistics and facts. The only comments that get censored are the ones that are considered spam or too obscene. Before you arrived, the only comments I ever removed aside my own (to fix typos and re-comment) were two that were made on the same day a few weeks ago by somebody trying to sell something. You are the first BFTB member with an obscene username (good start) and the first BFTB member that has gone so overboard with your criticism of me and other NFL fans that I felt the need to hide your comments. If you had done it once or twice, that’s one thing, but I could not have your pastes from other blogs taking up a huge chunk of the comments.

I need to reiterate that point for you and everyone else. You are not being singled out because you disagree with me. My favorite commentors here are typically the ones that don’t agree with anything I say, but instead of bashing me and calling me superior they poke holes in my arguments with research they’ve done. It’s a great give-and-take that a lot of Chargers fans enjoy. You are being singled out because you are being abusive (not just to me, I don’t care about that) and unruly in the form of spamming the comments. This is your last chance to change the way in which you comment before you will be banned. And don’t think you can simply start up a new account and start over, we’re a little more secure than that.

i hope you are what you pretend to be i know you don’t give the raiders or any other teams fans a high five when they beat us so you either just like the fact you are top dog at this blog cuz you run it or you’re a hypocrite at games if you even go to them…i could just imagine you telling raider fans"its ok next time bro you just need a qb,you’ll get us in the playoffs,here’s a beer" i don’t want to be a part of your blog dude i got an independent mind and like to hAVE MY OWN THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS not subject to your criteria have a good day obviousman when you’re at the round table with a.j smith and dean spanos tell them i said hello ok . until then thanks for being the official voice of ALL CHARGERS FANS

Okay, a lot to answer there. And none of it really makes any sense, so I’ll answer little phrases that seem to calling me a hypocrite. Do I high-five Raiders and Broncos fans when they beat the Chargers? No. Actually, last season that would’ve required me to be in Denver for that game. Anyways, I wouldn’t. After a loss, especially the Hoculi loss of last season, I pout. Sometimes I drown my sorrows in beer. Sometimes I sit and reflect. Every so often I can put those words down on Sunday night and post them here without getting too angry.

I do not high five fans of teams that just beat us, but that doesn’t mean I don’t respect them. If I’m sitting at a game or at a bar and a fan of the opposing team starts talking to me, I’m nice. Yes, I would tell a Raiders fan to keep his head up. That they have some interesting pieces and just need somebody to take control away from Al Davis. Actually, my cousin married a Marine who is a Raiders fan and we discuss both teams equally. He likes of our front office and I like some of their players (McFadden, Bush, Neal, Ellis, Asomugha, etc.). I tell him that JaMarcus Russell has a chance to be a great QB, although I hope it happens with another team. This is the way rational fans talk. It doesn’t matter who your favorite team is, we’re both FOOTBALL fans that like to talk football. And for the record, I have bought a beer for a Chiefs fan at a Chargers game before. He was my friend and a lost a bet to him. I later won back 3 free beers. There was no anger or screaming involved.

I am not the official voice of all Chargers fans. There is no official voice of all Chargers fans, unless you want to include Acee being the team’s unofficial spokesperson. If you don’t want to be a part of this blog community, where fans prefer a rational debate to screaming insults, you don’t have to keep coming back. However, if you’d like to be a part of the community, you’re more than welcome to post and comment with ideas contrary to my own. Just try to do it in a way that’s respectful, not to me but to the other commentors. This is not a place where the loudest shouter and the person who comments the most wins the argument. You win with facts and research. You win by proving your right, not by attacking people with contrary ideas to your own.