Chargers Fall to the Jets: Good, Bad, and Ugly

Philip Rivers for the last… six games. I think he had one game with no INT but he has been unspectacular to say the least. It’s confusing, bewildering and inexplicable. I’m not entirely sure he knows the reason or he’d have fixed it weeks ago. I just hope this doesn’t become a mental plague for him. I think if he somehow just broke out of this slump and went 28/38 for 300+ yds and 3 TDs and just led the team to a triumphant win over a formidable opponent (coughsGREENBAYcoughs) that it would re-energize this entire team.

But then again that’s just wishful thinking.

OK, Rivers had a bad day on his way to becoming just another average QB. OK, rookie mistakes keep happening. OK, our really great looking receivers seem a little lathargic on the road. But tell me this: why did everyone on the planet, except the Chargers coaching staff, notice that Cason was the targeted weakness to be exploited whenever the Jets needed an important play. Cason has known limitations and a little help would seem to be in order. Boltt

Antoine Cason = Elvis "toast"Patterson

It was clear that Keller never had possession of the ball so I don’t know how it can be ruled a fumble.

Until Rivers is able to get out of his slump?

Sadly I trust Mathews and the running game more than I do Rivers right now. Never thought I would have said that at the beginning of the season.

cmon man! he looked stupid makin decisions returning punts. fair catch on the 5 yard line? TWICE??

very ugly: 2 min offense. that was embarassing

but did anyone watch Rivers’ press conference? I’ve only seen the little clips from the website, but he seems completely aloof. Usually he says, “We’ll keep getting better.” This time he says, “It doesn’t matter. We’re 4-2.”

When the chargers play the jets they should use bryan walters like the patriots use wes welker .The chargers have a problem with delayed blitzes ,and dealing with overload pressures .The jets have no pass rushers so you know they will bring secondary help on blitzes we cant pick them up so why not spread them out instead of max protection for two man routes . A example came when we were backed up at own 6 yard line 7:46 in the third quarter they got kyle wilson lined up on gates jim leonard and brodney pool playing deep eric smith up in the middle donald strickland on right edge when the ball is snapped randy mcmichael slides all the way over and kyle gets a free run we cant even get a good presnap read , we can’t even block it right due to not understanding the look and no reltime adjustment they just focus on getiing the ball to the determined reciever so i say spread it out we can’t pick it up anyway can’t reconize it get the ball out with 5 wr sets the will have adjust

Decent shot we make the playoffs, but what is the point?

I cannot see a Norv team getting past Baltimore, NE or some other solid team when it counts.

PR looked awful. But he looked awful, in my opinion, because no one was open. One can argue, reasonably, that is because of injuries, etc, but does NE’s WR corp look better than ours?

Brady had 327 yards against them, 1 pic, 1 TD. Not a dominant game, but a solid one. Is that because their guys ran better routes? I doubt it. I am guessing BB could find chinks in RR armor than NT cannot.

I am just so tired of watching this team under-perform and play inconsistently. I do believe RR wins a couple of rings for us, or, at least, gives us a lot better shot at it than we have had.

Between having Norv Turner run your football team and having the Padres try to compete with meager resources, it is just brutal being a fan right now. We have had some recent success in both Padres and Chargers, but feel those windows closed (in Padres case) or are closing on the Bolts. And we have squandered some rare talent in the hands of seemingly, solid OC, nice but unable to win the big ones head coach.

Yes, yes, we are still in it. But not seeing much to give me hope that this will be a formidable team when the playoff time comes. Barely beating weak teams and losing to good or decent ones does not cut it.

The 2 second half series that started with the 3 and out to give the Jets the ball at the 49 ( which luckily didn’t end up in points), and then the ridiculous playcalling after the McMichael bomb really pissed me off. The Jets were reeling after the McMichael play, and even 3 runs into the line and then a 35 yard FG would have given us a 7 point lead, took another 2 minutes off the clock, would have taken the already quiet crowd out of the game, and forced a pedestrian Jets offense to drive the length of the field just to tie the game. But Norv runs 1 time and then throws 2 straight passes, the second which Revis picks off and takes inside the 15. Without that series of events the game is over. Within 30 seconds you went from the possibility of a 7 point lead to a 3 point deficit. Classic Charger football. I have been a big supporter in Norv, but a game like this finally has me believing that he does not have what it takes to get us over the hump. This team totally lacks mental toughness, to go out and just get 6 frigging points and control the clock in the second half to win the game. I could have guaranteed that they would have made just enough mistakes at critical times to lose the game. When is the last time they won a game that they shouldn’t have? But they sure lose ones they are supposed to win. Thats why they only end up with 8 or 9 wins in a weak division. This team does not look like it can beat a winning team right now, and that is not going to fare well for our 2nd half schedule.

At least on the defensive side of the ball. They started out well enough, but failed to make any adjustments. When you see a player (Cason for example) getting burned repeatedly, its time to do something different. Yes Cason’s play was ugly, but not making any adjustments is just as bad. Cason getting juked out of his boots by Plax (who is not exactly known for his dazzling moves) should have been a tip-off that Cason could not handle him by himself.

Its hard to say what is wrong with Rivers this year, but MOAR 20 should be in the game-plan until Rivers straightens himself out. .