Serious Business: 8/9 San Diego Chargers Links

by Richard Wade on Aug 9, 2011 5:00 AM PDT in San Diego Chargers Daily Links

San Diego Chargers training camp: Butler could win starting job - Kevin Acee
Butler, who missed his entire rookie season with an Achilles' tear, has tremendous instincts and rarely takes a wrong angle. He has taken every snap with the first team, even on third down

Four Downs: AFC West - Rivers McCown
Some of this will be fixed with simple regression -- no team can be THAT bad on special teams coverage again -- and some of it will fall to the hands of Kelley Washington, a highly-regarded special teamer who helped shore things up a bit for the Chargers after he signed with the team late in the season. General manager A.J. Smith also spent a seventh-round pick on Missouri linebacker Andrew Gachkar, who he believes will be an exceptional special teams player. San Diego is clearly taking the issue pretty seriously, and as long as they can just be mediocre on kick and punt returns, that should put them in the driver's seat in the AFC West.

San Diego Chargers are Locked and Loaded - Paul Mahan
Locked and loaded, these San Diego Chargers. They probably can't wait for the NFL season to open. The fans can't wait either.

Cason back to practice - Kevin Acee
Cornerback Antoine Cason was back participating in team drills less than a week after surgery to repair a broken finger in his right hand.

Gates taking it slow - Kevin Acee
Tight end Antonio Gates said he "felt good" after practicing Thursday – essentially his first practice since October.

Dose of Wildcat - Christopher Smith
San Diego’s defense got a look at the Wildcat formation during Sunday’s practice. The Chargers haven’t ruled out utilizing former quarterback Patrick Crayton in the role.

Rookie Brown misses another practice - Scott Bair
"Because he spent all that time working out with Philip (Rivers) in the offseason, he's not as far behind as he would've been if hadn't done that," Turner said. "It's a lot faster out here, but I'm anxious to get him back on the field. I also got a good look at what he can do, and we have plans for him."

Reserved is one thing Manusky ain’t - Nick Canepa
Greg Manusky, the Chargers’ new defensive coordinator, was an NFL linebacker for 12 seasons, and he brings that linebacker’s mentality to the way he coaches.

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Got another one for you. The NY Times ran an article about the team's "likely" move

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/sports/football/chargers-fans-fear-losing-their-team.html

They come at it as though the move is a sad slow inevitability that is dependent solely on SD’s willingness to raise taxes. Also apparently LA starts the approval process next week.

by athletics68 on Aug 9, 2011 11:22 AM PDT reply actions

Also in somewhat related news

Bolts are officially the first team to have a blackout warning this year. And may be the first to be blacked out if they don’t sell the remaining tickets by 5 today.

http://www.chargers.com/news/press-releases/article-1/-Chargers-receive-24-hour-extension-to-lift-blackout/00e755c1-cf3a-48a7-b72a-ae4ede027069

by athletics68 on Aug 9, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions

That's actually progress in a way

I don’t recall them ever getting close enough in the preseason to get an extension before. That’s probably a testament to how many season tickets they are selling already.

Although, I could just be misremembering. I tend to block out most of the preseason once the real season starts.

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by Wonko on Aug 9, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions

Pre what?

by athletics68 on Aug 9, 2011 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions

To my personal knowledge

2007 and 2008 sold out all pre-season games. 2009 sold one out.

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by Zach (maestro876) on Aug 9, 2011 7:49 PM PDT up reply actions

Looks like the LA Stadium is moving forward.

LA has signed a MOU with AEG beginning a 9 month review period.

by athletics68 on Aug 9, 2011 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions

Give the freaking Rams back to LA

the hell does Missouri deserve two teams for anyway?

by Natrone Bomb on Aug 9, 2011 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions

They may yet get the Rams back

I was reading that the two teams most likely to be given the go ahead to be together would be the Rams and Chargers. They both have fanbases in LA, both have history in LA, both in different divisions, and both least likely to make the other the “odd man out” team.

Still hope it doesn’t happen. I want the Chargers in SD if just because it gives me a place to see the Pats in person every few years.

by athletics68 on Aug 9, 2011 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions

nothing new

Still a lot of roadblocks to moving a team to LA. Not the least of which is a relocation fee in the hundreds of millions. I suspect the Rams and Raiders could talk themselves out of that fee since the Rams paid to move to StL and the NFL already tried to get the Raiders to pay for moving to LA once…

I refuse to worry about the Chargers leaving until the downtown stadium effort is dead. And until it’s dead, there is no use worrying about how close to dead it is…

by Stephen (shaynes41) on Aug 9, 2011 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions

Rams sure

Raiders are already bowing down to the Niners and doubling up in the Bay Area.

by athletics68 on Aug 9, 2011 4:13 PM PDT up reply actions

I wonder if Hacksaw would pay my rates for editing.

Lord knows it would be worth it to him. That’s one of the perils of radio: nobody knows how bad a speller you are, and they barely remember if your arguments are jumbly, so long as they agree with what you say. I should probably hit Florio up too.

Walter turned me down, but he’s a much better writer than those guys. Not any better as an analyst, but a better writer.

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by Neoplatonist Bolthead on Aug 9, 2011 2:35 PM PDT reply actions

I don't think Walter's all that bad an alalyst.

He can be somewhat opinionated, but for the most part he backs his picks up with stats and/or historical trends. His weekly picks are pretty entertaining to read too.

by SoCalBoltFan on Aug 9, 2011 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions

Not to mention

he picked the Browns to beat the Pats last year, which has to be worth something!

by SoCalBoltFan on Aug 9, 2011 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

Not a dig at Walter.

Hacksaw has the loudmouth factor to deal with. He’s wrong a lot, and he’s prone to getting piled on when it happens, but that doesn’t mean he’s dumb. Mr. Florio, he hate us, but he’s not a bad analyst otherwise.

An autumn Sunday,
Perched in front of the big screen,
Beer in white knuckles.

by Neoplatonist Bolthead on Aug 9, 2011 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions

I hate Florio

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."

by Superduperboltman on Aug 10, 2011 7:26 AM PDT up reply actions

Anschutz wants the chargers

So that there wont be a competitor to the south of their region, thus allowing them to claim all of southern California. It makes sense I guess. But they can count me out of that. As soon as the chargers move ill never watch another football game in my life.

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by cubbuster on Aug 9, 2011 11:52 PM PDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs

by SD FTW on Aug 10, 2011 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions

Case and point

Of course their second name wasn’t much better. California Angels… I’m sure the other 4 MLB teams in California objected to the Angels mistaken belief they spoke for the state.

by athletics68 on Aug 10, 2011 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions