San Diego Chargers Fans' Confidence Dwindling

That’s some good looking offensive line right there.

can’t go much higher than that.. RUN control the clock and pray Rivers does not suffer a major injury this year.

We can still win the division. After who the Chiefs lost to I can’t see them recovering. Tebow can’t keep winning games.. can he? I think the Raiders will go 3-3 before facing us and I feel like we can go 4-2. That is if we don’t collapse to easy opponents and we can get a win out of the Bears, Lions, or Ravens. We SHOULD be able to beat every other team on our schedule before we face the Raiders. So then it will come to that game to win the division.

I would be more confident that this team still had a late run in it if the O-line weren’t completely decimated. That makes me truly pessimistic.

The question is, if Norv pulls this one out with 2 original O-line starters, is he a good coach?

My confidence is at exactly 0. Call me a pessimist but everything that has happened so far has just been one crappy event after another and today’s news of Dielman going on IR is no different. I don’t know how to believe in this team because I have no faith in the backups, the starters, the coach, the GM or the management. I know the NFL is crazy and anything can happen week to week but unlike the crazy Ravens, I can’t believe that this team is capable of beating a physical team. If the Chargers finish at 7-9 I would be impressed.

Significant injuries to irreplaceable starters, and complete lack of any kind of coaching ingenuity (the first time I’ve EVER felt that I could game plan a defensive scheme to shut down Norvel’s offense), and frankly I’m just tired of watching them find new and ingenious ways to lose games, going back to the start of last seasons..

I’m sorry to mess with those who are still fantasizing about the Charger’s future, but the reality is that Norv and A.J. are the issues that the Chargers must deal with in order to move ahead to become a great team like they once were (four years ago) and the Spanos family has been historically slow to remove front office personnel, except when A.J. demands it. Then they move fairly quickly. The guys on the field can’t control much except what they have within their power to change- and that’s pretty much what’s right in front of them on each down played. I’m fairly certain that we are looking at Norv having one more year before he is sacked, and A.J. may never leave. He won’t leave willingly and he also won’t leave until he can put together a good team that has games in the win column. Considering he has decimated the team by losing good players and hiring marginal ones, I doubt he has much chance of making a good team. And his ego will just not let him give up. So he will have to be fired, and that’s not likely considering the Spanos family’s wet noodle-like behavior concerning Mr. Smith. Therefore, we are looking at at least three years before there is any glimmer of hope, and Philip Rivers is going to be wasting the best years of his career in San Diego as long as A.J. Smith is still around. If I was Rivers, I would renegotiate my contract to state that he would take a lower amount of money if they get rid of Norv and A.J. and bring in someone like Coach Cower. Maybe then Rivers can salvage what is left of his career. Dan Fouts had the same problem with a similar front office situation. He was great but never won a superbowl. I hope that doesn’t happen to Rivers- one of the most competetive and genuine nice guys around.

Then we would be a great team, but its not.

Who cares if we win the AFC west if we are consistently one and done? Beating crap teams doesn’t mean much.

Looking at our remianing schedule, I could see us winning all 7 or losing all 7. So I’d have to mark my confidence as right in the middle. The Bears next week and the Broncos the week after are the only two that have been rolling. The others ( other than Jacksonville) are arguably better than us, but they’ve had some stumbles lately.

The injuries, especially O-Line, make it seem like we’ll probably lose the rest of the year. But if Rivers cuts down on the picks and we start putting up some points, we could get on a roll. The team hasn’t done much to inspire confidence lately, but there’s still a lot of football left to play.