I’d be more comfortable with another DT, but I really like having Spillman on the team.

I told you this team doesn’t like to part ways with draft picks.

bennett and vasquez ftw.

The Raiders cut Jeff Garcia.

When they announce the practice squad?

Bennett is the best news I’ve heard all day but im a little iffy about some…. im ok with the D Line more than what we have on the O line…. lol im so confused

That all the defensive backups at LB and Safety are excellent on special teams.

Hey, this team doesn’t meet the arbitrary guidelines set by Madden rosters.

Is he going to be able to play against the faiders? If he is still not 100% i’d rather sit him and get him ready for when the real season starts in week 2.

Chargers cut a few veterans, maybe this has some forward thinking attached to it. Veteran backups usually have to be resigned or replaced after the season. Chargers have a lot of free agents coming up. Putting the CBA aside for a second, having a lot of (cheap) backups that are under contract will help the Chargers focus on either resigning their other guys or using their draft picks to cover the losses from those potential FAs.

Either that, or A.J. just want to be young with upside instead of old, safe and creaky. That does sound like him.

Could both be true? Am I just babbling?

Can someone find a UCLA SDSU stream for me? Game starts at 7:45 EST maybe there isn’t one cuz it hasn’t started yet.

I’m glad they found a way to keep Bennett and Tolbert. Our special teams won’t suffer, and we have an actual running back to take over if LT or Sproles get hurt.

I’m surprised they kept so many RBs while shorting the DL. I’ll be curious to see how this affects the rotation of the DL during a game.

I have a feeling we will be making a move at some point for another CB, DL or OL because we lack the depth at all 3 positions but figuring out AJ is near impossible (how about trading a LB or WR for a need position?).

I don’t recall AJ making any moves before during this time to grab someone for a position on the 53-man roster so it probably won’t happen – although I’d like to replace a few of the guys we have with some that are available.

Some good pick-ups to me would be Marcus McCauley-CB, Tony Pashos-OT or Paul Spicer-DE.

While he’s a good special teams contributor, six RBs is way excessive— if not for Bennett’s strong preseason I’d prefer to drop the axe on him too.

I think the team may be willing to part with a wide reciever for a corner or defensive tackle.
DT might not even be a problem to address through trade; Terdell Sands was waived by the Raiders and Tim Crowder was given his walking papers by the Broncos.

Following up on that idea, the #1 guy I’d have on the trade block is Chris Chambers— his number is pretty near up, he hasn’t produced to expectations, and he wasn’t worth the 2nd round pick we traded it for (granted, we only could’ve gotten Earl Bennett, Dexter Johnson, Early Doucet, Harry Douglas, Mario Manningham… still, he’s produced far too little). I could see trading Chambers for a player of, say, Cortland Finnegan’s or Leodis McKelvin’s caliber. Maybe with a bit of a push, Cason will start to blossom in the nickel corner slot… he’ll just be hitting his prime when Jammer begins to age.