Use Your Brain: Root Against the Chargers

Brees was ready to go by the start of the following season (just for a different team) so if it comes to “Having what happened to Drew Brees happen to” Rivers, then the Chargers would probably be fine. I’d just prefer that El Capitan go to the Pro Bowl, spend more time with his family (instead of re-habbing) and be available for all the offseason stuff.

I disagree on Ryan Mathews. This is a great opportunity with live game action to challenge him with all the things that he missed out on because the coaches were limiting his exposure. Feeling what its like to carry twenty times and pass protect on 3rd and long will be good experiences for him. He needs this game.

Would contribute to the Chargers’ not being able to take the next step. If you’re playing a game, you should play hard and you should try to win. If this team was 3-12, they’d be playing to win this week. So the fact that they’re “only 8-7” and stuck in the middle doesn’t mean that they should go ahead and lose the game.

Attitudes like that are probably why the team got stuck in the middle in the first place.

Win or lose, it doesn’t matter to them.
Wouldn’t it be beneficial to the interim head coach if he beat San Diego? It could be an audition for a full-time job either there or somewhere else.
I can only think of reasons why Denver should win this game.

is anathema to fanhood. If you don’t witness/pull for a win then what’s the point?

If the Chargers get eliminated in week 12 next year do we give Philip the rest of the year off?

The Chargers have already proven (this year) that having an easy schedule doesn’t really agree with them.Maybe a tough schedule would actually prepare them for a legitimate post-season run.

RE: rooting for a better draft position. I can’t say I trust AJ to do that much with it.

Go Bolts! No injuries.

that to me is horrible. i know about all the draft stuff, but when you dont play to win, thats when you need to stop coaching. im personally just not for it.

“If we lose, we weren’t trying.” I just hope your team doesn’t come out with the same attitude.

I could care less about draft position. I want my team to win regardless of the situation. The same sentiment is being shared by some over at MHR, about draft position etc. The fact is, and no offense to you guys posting here whatsoever, but I hate your team because we are division rivals (as I’m sure you probably hate the Broncos, but you should probably love us, since we pretty much have guaranteed two wins for you guys the past few years).

 I would love to see that trend stop finally, as I’m sure you guys would love to keep it going. I just want to see how our rookie quarterback plays against a team that actually has some talent on it. Houston has a few good pieces, but it was hard to effectively judge anything because they are also a terrible team.

I am anticipating a pretty good game, to be quite honest. Win or lose, I hope it’s not a blow out either way, it’s our teams’ respective last games of the year and it would be nice to end the year in a nail biter. See ya’ll Sunday!

i think they should sit their starters, let the guys that need playing time and experience play, etc.

but i will never, ever root for them to lose. i can’t do it.

re: a better draft pick – is the difference between 16 and 18 really worth rooting for them to lose? not to me. most mid first round talent is the same level, in my opinion. maybe the top 5 or 6 guys are way better than everyone else, but i think the rest of the first round really just depends on your need.

not much to be played for, and expect to see a lot of inexperienced players out there getting some playing time and auditioning for their jobs next season…

Winning or losing won’t noticeably affect how we approach next year.

AJ has proven he will make whatever dumbass move he needs to in order to get the player that he’s targeted in the draft, so what real difference is a position or 2?

I want no injuries & evaluation of guys who may be on the bubble. See who looks to be a good possibility at upgrading a weakness & move on into draft mode.

Pride goeth before a fall.

 a loss AND a raider win drops us into 3rd…. and i for one cant live with that

Sure the ultimate goal each year is to win the championship. But I just don’t buy sitting your starters and not trying to win as soon as that goal is not reachable. This team already knows how to play without any fire they don’t need to practice.

If we (the Chargers) really want to look at some long term goals maybe we should go 0-16 the next couple years and get some really good draft picks. Then the third year we would be playing a 4th place schedule and we could really kick some ass.

You play to win the game.

Always.

That doesn’t mean as a franchise you take unnecessary risks. If a player is marginally injured this week…he sits.

If the offensive line begins to hemorrhage, you sit Rivers…but he plays as long as the team can win.

You give some backups more opportunities (like Ajirotuto) to see what they can do.

But under no circumstances do you play to lose, and under no circumstances will I root for the Chargers to lose (though it can be argued that Norv has coached to lose since he took the helm).

There is not a huge enought draft position difference…especially in light of AJ’s recent draft history…to justify wanting us to tank this game.

There is not enough difference in next years potential schedule to warrant wanting an easier schedule next year (especially since we lost THIS year to Seattle, St. Louis, Cincinnati and twice to Oakland). If going from a 2nd to a 3rd place schedule means the difference between getting into the playoffs and not, then we won’t be deserving of a playoff spot anyway.

It’s about jobs and money.