The Sky is Falling...

San Diego, the sky is falling. The Chargers are 1-2 and are again off to a slow start. Both games they have lost this year they have gift wrapped them for their opponents with special teams blunders and turnovers. Now maybe we should have expected that despite the easy schedule early in the year we would once again come out flat and lose too many early season games, but why is this happening? In the past it has been our defense getting carved up by the passing game and they couldn't get off the field, now our defense is probably playing the strongest of any of the 3 units. As I stated earlier our problems lie in special teams and turnovers, I can't tell you exactly why we suck on special teams but it is giving teams free points. If we could get stops on returns our defense is playing well enough to stop the other team driving the score up, the Seahawks scored only 3 pts total off San Diego's 5 turnovers. Which brings us to our other problem: the turnovers, I'm willing to give Rivers a pass so far because of his 4 picks that I can remember 3 of them have been tipped by our receivers and the 4th was on 4th down at the end of the game, but we need to stop fumbling. I can see that sometimes fumbling can be unavoidable like when a helmet hits the ball directly but the Chargers fumbling has started to seem like more of a trend than a couple of unlucky plays. From memory the Chargers have fumbled 5 times in their first 3 games which along with Rivers 4 picks makes 9 turnovers (Not checking stats so that is off memory, I might be wrong) in 3 games: An average of 3 a game. If we do continue to turn the ball over at that obscene pace, we will not make the playoffs. These things need to be fixed.

I have to give props to Philip Rivers for setting a Charger record for passing yardage in a game. By all accounts he played well once the Chargers figured out how to move the ball in the 2nd half.

All the receivers played well except for a fumble by Legadu Naanee. Running attack wasn't bad save a fumble by Mike Tolbert (See a trend)

Catch of the Day: Antonio Gates- Throw behind him on a crossing route, Gates reaches back grabs it with his left hand and pins it against his leg for the catch.

2nd Guess of the Game: 7 minutes left Tolbert is rolling and it is 2nd and goal on the 2, instead of punching it up the gut with Tolbert again Rivers rolls out to the right and has to throw the ball away. The drive ended with a field goal after a delay of game penalty. Why not keep running Tolbert and try to punch it in.

Big Mac is Back: Marcus McNeill reported to the team and signed his tender. This is great news because we all just saw Brandyn Dombrowski's weakness was speed rushers and McNeill will instantly upgrade the pass protection which was ok at best today.

Random CRAZY Idea: Chargers trade Vincent Jackson to the Jaguars for Kassim Osgood and some draft pick. Keep in mind this will never happen but us fans are just desperate enough to want it to happen. Kassim would instantly upgrade our special teams and we aren't using V Jack at all, but we will have to find another way to contain other teams on returns.

Crazy week, I might have a better analysis of next weeks games because I may have tickets to the game but that is yet to be confirmed or denied. Comment if you have any other ideas to fix our teams flaws.

-Mitch