Serious Business: 5/12 Chargers Links

by Richard Wade on May 12, 2010 12:00 AM PDT in San Diego Chargers Daily Links

Big roles possible for new Chargers - Kevin Acee
On Friday and Saturday, in meetings and truncated practices, the rookies got to know the coaches and vice versa.

FO Interview: Tony Dungy
Pretty interesting interview.

How important is Los Angeles to the NFL?
ESPN.com Poll Results by State

Ranking the tight ends in the AFC West - Bill Williamson - ESPN
Gates is one of the best tight ends in football. He helps make San Diego’s offense special. He turns 30 soon, but he is still in his prime. He had a career high 1,157 yards last season. He’s outstanding.

Raiders, Chargers headlines - Bill Williamson - ESPN
It seems like San Diego may get contributions from several rookies. Key players to watch are Ryan Mathews, Cam Thomas, Donald Butler and Darrell Stuckey. This is an interesting time in San Diego.

The Big Question: Mathews for balance? - Bill Williamson - ESP
Expect Mathews to be a big upgrade over the LaDainian Tomlinson of the past two years. Mathews is going to extend some drives, eat clock and -- most important -- take pressure off San Diego’s great passing game.

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Interesting ESPN Poll

Kinda funny the rest of the country and world doesn’t seem to think that an NFL team matters in the biggest city in the State with the USA’s largest economy. California has the eighth largest economy in the world.

I guess those LA Raider and Rams fans should just stop watching and buying the products. The rest of the country thinks so.

by Trendsearcher on May 12, 2010 10:24 AM PDT reply actions

I'm guessing it is because California already has three teams.

Four sounds like overkill.

And I heard you guys signed Mike Nixon from ASU. He is a pretty good pickup, not the fastest guy but he was very smart, it was like having another coach on the field for the Defense, and he was always near the ball.

Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan.

I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team, throughout the good and the bad.

by JoeCB1991 on May 12, 2010 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions

Just saw that

I’m always happy to see Linebackers getting picked up. We have pretty good luck with scouting, and find some sleeper guys that turn up pretty good (Siler, Applewhite). I’ve read that our new ILB Butler is a really smart player too, it always helps to have real, critical football smarts on the D.

"Watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow."- Zappa

by QuesaDiaz on May 12, 2010 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions

I think what kept him from getting drafted is that he wants to go to Law School.

Kinda like what happened with Myron Rolle. He is a very smart guy, and like I said he isn’t an incredible athlete. But he is a smart player who has a nose for the ball and he is very good at reading offenses. Very good leader.

Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan.

I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team, throughout the good and the bad.

by JoeCB1991 on May 12, 2010 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions

I think the age is a big deal

At 26 there’s not much room for error. You need to get up to speed so fast to be making an impact that teams are just going to shy away from taking that risk. If they wanted a 26 year old, they could find 20 of them that already had NFL experience.

No, I don't think you're an idiot. Please don't go trying to prove me wrong about that.

Bolts from the Blue - General Manager: It is what it isn't

by Wonko on May 13, 2010 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions

LOL

ShaunPhillips95 Imagine if we put as many hours into our relationship as we put into work. I did some math and I put over 15000 practice hours in.
37 minutes ago reply

Someone tell Shaun he’s terrible at math.

"If guys wanna complain about playing here they better check themselves and leave" - Nick Hundley.

by Natrone Bomb on May 12, 2010 11:37 AM PDT reply actions