Chargers Defeat the Jaguars: Good, Bad, and Ugly
by Steve Adler on Dec 5, 2011 9:30 PM PST
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Chargers go into Jacksonville and run it up on the Jags 38-14. Last week I wrote...
We ripped Jackson, he broke out. We ripped Mathews, he broke out. Next Saturday, we rip everyone!
If you missed High Boltage Radio on Saturday, John and I basically ripped everyone and look what happened. With that in mind, no more Mr. rainbows and puppy dogs on Saturday mornings from here on out.
I don't know about you, but I was a little confused watching this game. It's been a while since the Chargers dominated a game, so I spent most of the game wondering around my living room wondering when Norv was going to piss me off. To my pleasure, it didn't happen. It has been a while since the Chargers have had a win like this, so I'm trying to drink it all in, I suggest you do the same.
Good:
Offense: Chargers offense with 400 yards in three quarters. 294 in the air and 106 on the ground with 18 first downs and no turnovers. Super Chargers!
Philip Rivers: This is what we were all expecting to see all season long. Rivers finished with a line of 22/28 294 yards, and 3 touchdowns. Rivers is now 22-2 in December in January. "Best Day Ever"
Vincent Jackson, Malcom Floyd, and Antonio Gates: 250 in three quarters between the three of them. Awesome.
Ryan Mathews - Back to back 100 yard games for Mathews and he has a great shot to break 1,000 yards on the season.
Eric Weddle: Another interception for Weddle as he continues to justify that big contract. It's a shame he won't make the pro bowl, he has had a great season.
ILB: Donald Butler and Takeo Spikes getting it done with 17 tackles between the two of them.
Bad:
Quentin Jammer: Jammer with three tackles and gave up a passing touchdown. He nearly went the way of Shawne Merriman when he collided with MJD as well.
Ugly:
Penalties: I feel like I'm nit picking, but the Chargers had six penalties for 55 yards.
Schedule: It's a shame that the Chargers waited until they were 4-7 to show up and make a playoff run. With the Bills, Ravens, Lions, and Raiders left on the schedule and the Broncos surging, it appears the only thing the Chargers can surge towards is hurting their draft position.
Shameless plug, High Boltage Radio will be on Saturday from 10am to noon. For those of you that play fake football, the HBR - Fantasy Football show will be on Thursday December 1st at 7pm. You can listen locally on XTRA Sports 1360 or online at www.xtrasports1360.com.
That's my list, who made your good, bad, and ugly?
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That Jammer-MJD collision was a lot of nothing. Jammer should lose in that matchup, and yet he managed to get MJD out of bounds and end the play without getting flattened or even losing his feet. But MJD poses a bit and suddenly its supposed to be shameful for Jammer.
The TD passes, however, were bad.
That's funny, I thought MJD walked out of bounds in an effort to talk trash. lol
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That's what it looked like from my TV lol...MJD knocked Jammer back then strolled out of bounds lol
"Sad fact about our generation: Most ppl would rather hear "you look good" than "you are good". We spend thousands a year on cars, clothes, & cosmetics; Forget that. I can give you a Bible for free. Save money, save your soul. Get right with the Savior, Jesus Christ."- Travis D. Holmes
Jammer laid the wood on him too
Maybe MJD moved slightly forward instead of straight sideways, but it was close to an even collision as you will get.
Also did you notice when the Chargers tackled him later, they took their sweet time getting off him, and he got chirpy again. LOL
Next Saturday, we rip everyone!
It worked ! Keep it up! Starting now! There is no “good”, only “bad” and “ugly”.
Rivers didn’t even manage 300 yards! Boo!
Mathews had at least a few place which weren’t spectacular! Shameful!
Gates didn’t catch a TD! Terrible!
Gaither holds too much, Colin Baxter has awful hair,and the rest of the O-line probably sucks as well! A pox on the lot of them!
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by Richard Wade on Dec 7, 2011 10:35 AM PST up reply actions
how about
bad: pass rush. absolutely no pressure.
ugly: fans are gonna believe this team can still battle for a playoff spot, bcause losing streak is over and is december… we are not gonna win another game this season.
we are all gonna crash hard when chargers loose to the bills
and we are all gonna say the same things here: fire norv, this team sucks and all that again
So we can't have week of feeling good for ourselves
I hate scooter pie
by Lmbs2slaghtr on Dec 5, 2011 10:07 PM PST up reply actions
another good
as John said on the last post. At least this game showed to ppl that all Rivers need is more time to make that throw. Hes still the same elite qb.
another ugly: have to listen about Tebow all week
AND during the game
Ugly: tebow highlight reel during the middle of the game
I hate scooter pie
by Lmbs2slaghtr on Dec 5, 2011 10:08 PM PST up reply actions
I BELIEVE
because what other option is there really? Soon enough we will enter the dry and dreary months on Feb-July with nothing but the draft and FA to hold us over. While the NFL is really year round, the truth is that we are in the good part right now, and giving it up before you absolutely have to is akin to skipping dinner to wash the dishes.
Besides, your best case scenario for losing out is getting a new HC, GM, and a slightly better draft pick, the combination of them won’t actually bear fruit until 2013… That’s a long way away… (For every Jim Harbaugh and Rex Ryan, there are a dozen slow movers. For every Suh there are a dozen Curry’s)
Enjoy it now, don’t worry about tomorrow. Hang on to hope for as long as you can.
by Stephen (shaynes41) on Dec 6, 2011 7:48 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
dude no one's getting carried away except you
seriously not going to win another game? i’ll take that bet. we all know playoff hopes are over and sure everyone is still on the fire norv train, but i don’t think you understand the fan base that posts on this website very well. i wanna fire norv, but still enjoy watching the team play well.
Who are you talking to?
I can’t see the person that said
seriously not going to win another game?
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chill man
i still love to see this franchise winning. dont get me wrong. but look closely. if we do have have a chance to win another game it will be against the bills, but they are far better team then the jags. Jaguars were dead last on every stat in offense and their defense showed no rush on our backup O-line.
hope is a very good thing but if you do analyse closely do you think we can still beat Ravens, Lions or the Raiders. As much as i love this team i just cant see that happening
travis laboy kinda looks like a guy that lives in his van that i used to see around town
i called him vanman. kinda like the bad guy in silence of the lambs. yikes.
Favorite sign of the night:
Loser keeps Norv. But yeah, I don’t see us winning again after tonight, though it was fun to finally get to see the Chargers put up a clinic in person.
We got a decent shot to beat the Bills at home
And surprise everyone by pulling off an upset over the Lions and/or team Voldemort. Unfortunately, 7-9 or 8-8 will not get us into the playoffs and just make sure that the draft position is around 12-15. IOW, the worst of all worlds – raise hopes that are dashed, give ownership a fig leaf for not making coaching or GM changes, and be stuck with the second or 3rd best player at a position you wanted to improve with a 1st round pick.
That scenario would be so San Diego Chargers.
North Texas REALLY needs a Rubio's franchise.
Travis LaBoy = bad
I hope he gets cut next year.
Donald Butler looks like a future pro bowler if he can stay healthy. No way that MJD shovel pass goes for that distance if Butler is in the game.
San Diego Bad
Take away what you want but at the end of the day the Chargers beat a very bad Jacksonville team and let MJD put up almost 200 yards of offense. How about the 3rd and 2 shovel pass come on everyone watching new who was getting the ball except San Diego. If the Saints or Pats were playing the Jags they would have hung 60 on them. They are slow to get out of the huddle slow to the line gates looks like an old man running routes. Everything that is wrong with San Diego showed up in the first half except a interception and a fumble they were lucky jacksonville handed them the game on a silver platter. Dominate the first 2 posessions and then disapear is what I saw they got lucky dont expect the same with Buffalo coming to town this weekend they have a good secondary the starting corners last night were both brought in this week in Jacksonville what did everyone think was going to happen.
Interesting
The Saints did play the Jags this year.
They scored 23 points.
23 is less than 38, yes? And a hell of a lot less than 60?
addition
I am glad we add and subtract be honest if you watched the game. So what they won forget about that this is not the team I am used to see playing when it counts the most the coaches and players disapear. And that my friend starts at the top with the floppy cock head coach you ever see him get on someone on the sideline when they make a mistake or get flagged I have seen it once this year giving Jammer a hard time. He should have handed Manusky his lunch when that shovel happened. The teams attitude is reflected in its coaches. Hoo Hum does not cut it in the NFL
Punctuation is your friend.
So are cogent thoughts, but lets start with punctuation.
by CABurrito on Dec 7, 2011 5:45 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
good
Jared Gaither
Oh internet, what a wicked web you weave.
by Mad_Villain on Dec 6, 2011 8:53 AM PST via mobile reply actions
indeed
he moved well for a big guy. I am cautiously optimistic
by Stephen (shaynes41) on Dec 6, 2011 9:38 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I blame play calling
I think Norv went deep and deep often knowing he has nothing to lose. 3rd and 1, lets throw a PA bomb to Jackson.
I get a little huffy at Norv trying to play the pass off the run, instead of vice versa. Matthews is a great burst of speed against the grain or in a draw\screen. His weakness, or maybe it is the line, predictability, whatever, is running power off tackle… that play doesnt work for the Chargers.
The Good: A win is a win
The bad: we could not get any pass rush on the 32nd ranked offense
The ugly: The Chargers can only beat under .500 teams, and it was nationally televised…
The peanut gallery has spoken!!!
Good: The end of the first half
They looked awesome on both sides of the ball early. Then they roll over and go down 14-10. I know I was thinking, "welp, same old Bolts." Then they had two quick scores to go in 24-14 at the half. The Jags may have been playing with a bunch of scrubs at DB, but that was still nice to see.
Meh.
GOOD: Lousy team isn’t so lousy. Jekyll!Rivers decided to make a cameo this season. New left tackle didn’t get Rivers killed and is pretty good.
BAD: Giving fans glimmer of hope that will one way or another be dashed. Plus, now they’ll finish 5-11 which drops them a few spots in the draft :(
UGLY: The glaring lack of a pass-rush and corners. Jammer needs to be moved to safety.
I vote for the Chargers to use their first round pick on a linebacker (see Von Miller).
von was the second pick in the draft.
The highest the chargers could pick realistically is 8th
Dielman on Rivers: "I've tried to get him to say s--- or f--- and all he'll ever do is say, 'Golly gee, I can't do that."
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Could we get a Countdown to Castillo's return?
by Superduperboltman on Dec 7, 2011 6:14 AM PST up reply actions
aggreement
could not agree more the problem is you let AJ Smith make the call and it is a bust. Where is Corey Liguet is he even playing never hear his name or even see him he was supposed to be a impact player. That glimmer of hope might even last another week with Buffalo coming to town.
Probelm is Von Miller is just a rookie going to be killing the bolts for years.
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