Greetings from Arrowhead Pride!

It’s not the law that you are required to support your home team.

It takes about one month of living in San Diego to realize that 50% of this town consists of immigrants from other states…and they bring thier former hometams with them.

Give the guy a break.

And when I got here I fell in love with DT and the way he hit people, kinda like our old Rugby players. I was only a kid back then.

1) I don’t think our front 7 is able to consistently get pressure either, which is why it’s gonna have to come from our DBs. You saw Arenas bring the pressure last week, and Berry before that. We don’t blitz much, but when we do it’s unorthodox.

2) The one thing that the Chiefs have been lucky on this season is injuries. The football Gods seem to have it out for SD and Greenbay.

I can agree on just about everything else though. Thanks for not being a dick lol.

that many on this blog disagree with pretty routinely.

1. No, not really surprised. I admit I thought LT lost a step, but it’s more like half a step. He hadn’t been 100% for at least three years; he seems healthy now. Also, the Chargers’ system changed from a running offense that revolved around LT to one where LT didn’t get enough touches to do his thing.

2. Few will disagree that Norv is a great offensive mind. Many will disagree that he is a great, or even good, head coach. People will point to his ability (or inability) to motivate. Norv isn’t a screamer. He’s not very demonstrative. Some would call him unconcerned, clueless, lethargic, or catatonic. He motivates his own way, and that rubs some people the wrong way. He had bad teams in Oakland and Washington and he lost with them. He has great teams in SD and he wins. In fact, he has the second best winning percentage (0.612, 41-26, including playoffs) in Chargers’ history, edged out by Sid Gillman (0.614 83-51-6), and better than Don Coryell, Bobby Ross and Marty Schottenheimer. He also has as many postseason victories (3) as Coryell and Ross. But some would argue that with this much talent, his teams should have done better. It can be argued either way, but the arguments are filled with woulda coulda shoulda. Whether he is a good coach is moot; AJ Smith stands solidly behind Norv, and he ain’t going anywhere anytime soon.

3. I expect the Chiefs to be surprised by how much more difficult it will be to run the ball this time, notwithstanding the Chargers’ awful showing against the Raiders. The Chiefs’ O-line and D-line are not the quality of Oakland’s; they will have a tough time duplicating the Raiders’ success. The Chiefs will have to pass to win, and that will be tough sledding. This year, Cassel has passed for more than 250 yards once: in the blowout loss to Denver. Overshadowed by the Chargers’ monumental mistakes in the first meeting is the fact that SD outgained KC almost 2:1 (389 yards to 197). Expect that trend to continue. If the Chargers shoot themselves in the foot (again), the Chiefs will be in the game. If the Chargers play with a clean sheet, the Chiefs will find this game not at all to their liking.

That’s why LT has been better. But look at how much he’s dropped off in the second half…age.

I wonder if the injury report for the week after the game is much larger than the one for the week. I don’t have time to research now, but if no one else does before tonight, I’ll try to come back and answer my own question.

I’m sure the coaching staff is reviewin the film with the team and beating it into their heads that they’ve got to play harder, meaner in order to win in this league. Especially at the line of scrimmage. Facing the cupcake OL and DL of the Colts was a problem, I think.

I’m not a believer in taking much from a 10 game sample size.

I would say he probably won’t play. It’s only Tuesday though so who knows. It seems the Chargers are pretty conservative with players that have injuries (not named Antonio Gates).

It’s had me pretty pissed too. Sorry man… don’t know what else to say.

Explains a lot

Your name, picture, and status as a Raiders fan gives you a pretty short leash on other AFC West fan sites (fair or not).

I think the San Diego game will be a challenge and knowing we play better ahead, will rush for the most attempts of any previous game. This is all considering we dont get behind early on, but if KC wins this game, I honestly think we’ll run the board; barring any injuries.(knock on wood)

And don’t worry… your hopes will be completely crushed after the Jags take you behind the wood shed this week. Chiefs move up 3 games this week and Raider and Charger fans fall off teh face of the earth…

and I don’t think they’ll roll over.

But, I think the Chiefs are going to win the division this year and I think the Raiders will only win 1 more game this year.

Both of these guys are still fresh with splitting their carries all season. Jones isn’t a slouch as he is averaging over 4 YPC also. We want to keep Charles fresh and we don’t want him carrying the ball 20-25 times per game if we can get him 12-16 with more explosive results.

I think we’ll see more Charles here late in the season but Jones has a little different running style that has definitely made us a better all-around run team. We also don’t have to change up the playbook with whomever is in there. They both run the same plays although their styles are different.

We are a run first team and as long as Croyle can avoid throwing INT I think we will be fine. I don’t see the game plan changing dramatically by any means. Many fans have wanted to see Croyle get his change and with him being a free agent next year this is pretty much his do or die if he wants to be starter again. I guess we’ll know soon enough how he does…

But consistency and the ability to stay healthy are problems. He’s a threat to break anytime he’s touched. I don’t see the gameplan changing all that much because we didn’t have Cassel throwing downfield all that often. Cassel just did a great job of not turning it over or throwing into coverage.

A lof of Chiefs fans have wanted to see what Croyle could do with this kind of team around him.

Brodie’s arm is on par with Rivers. Watch carefully tomorrow.

All this talk of Croyle’s arm is silly.