Xenos Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 31 minutes ago, kyle21121 said: Greatest kicker in nfl history Love his confidence and swag: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenos Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 45 minutes ago, Zappaz said: He seems to make a couple good plays a game over the middle. I think he has a role but I'm still not sold on taking him so early. I understand why they did it but now we have too many guys to feed the ball to. This is essentially his first year playing. What a difference not being injured and getting to go through OTAs to build chemistry with his QB makes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenos Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Glad for the win even though it was ugly. My main hope is that everyone came out unscathed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chargers Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 3 hours ago, Xenos said: Glad for the win even though it was ugly. My main hope is that everyone came out unscathed. Looks like Ekeler is dealing with a concussion after the helmet to helmet hit he took on the onside kick recovery and doesn't look like he'll make the trip to Kansas City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenos Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 9 minutes ago, Classic said: Looks like Ekeler is dealing with a concussion after the helmet to helmet hit he took on the onside kick recovery and doesn't look like he'll make the trip to Kansas City. Here's hoping for the best then: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
game3525 Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Quote Austin Ekeler suffered a stinger in Week 14 against the Bengals. Ekeler has a history of stingers, so this puts his status up in the air on a short week. The Chargers are hoping to get Melvin Gordon (knee) back for Thursday night's matchup with the Chiefs. Ekeler has a stinger, so I doubt he plays on Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenos Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Feel good article about Philip: Quote Philip Rivers is ready to be appreciated Andy Benoit A few months ago, an NFL head coach and I were discussing the 2004 quarterback draft class. I asked the coach if he thought the Giants would swap Eli Manning’s career for Philip Rivers’s. “They should,” he said, leaning back, kicking his feet up on his desk and saying in so many words that Manning has epitomized the “good but not great” quarterback. This was no surprise; the only argument for Manning over Rivers are the quarterbacks’ contrasting playoff pedigrees. When evaluating players, most coaches put a small fraction of the weight fans and media put in Super Bowl titles. Which might be why, when our 2004 draft conversation shifted to Rivers vs. Roethlisberger, it went in circles. To outsiders, Ben Roethlisberger’s 2-1 Super Bowl record and 13 career playoff wins versus Rivers’s 0-0 Super Bowl record and four career playoff wins shuts the door on any debate. And thanks to a longevity that nobody would have predicted given his physical sandlot style of play, Roethlisberger’s career numbers are surprisingly vast and still growing. The unique toughness behind that sandlot style has earned Roethlisberger respect around the NFL, but what has elevated him into the highest pantheon is his unlikely evolution into a cerebral field general. Or, to put it another way: Roethlisberger’s late-career maturation has turned him into the type of QB that Philip Rivers has been all along, which is why Rivers is a darling within the NFL. No player has a bigger chasm between the public and private perception of him than Rivers. The coach I was chatting with ultimately couldn’t decide who has had the better quarterbacking career between Roethlisberger and Rivers. Thirteen games into this season, I wonder if—with some help from recency bias—that coach could decide now. Rivers’s Chargers beat Roethlisberger’s Steelers two Sundays ago. And, coming off a classic Chargers-style win over the Bengals on Sunday, in which an early lead was established with deep-intermediate throws to big receivers and misdirection designs for scatback Austin Ekeler, Rivers enters the Thursday night showdown at Kansas City with the AFC’s top seed essentially on the line. That game could also decide who from the AFC challenges Drew Brees (and Aaron Donald?) in the MVP race. For much of the season that race has been headlined by breakout darling, Patrick Mahomes—and understandably so, the 23-year-old QB is scintillating. Rivers’s style of play, on the other hand, is awkward: the shotput throwing motion, the lumbering out-of-pocket movement, the frenetic body language, etc. But coaches rave over Rivers’s style because, unconventional as it appears, it leads to plays being executed exactly as they’re drawn up. Rivers’s pocket mobility and toughness are perfect. His control of the pre-snap chess phase is masterful. Rivers understands every nuance of every play’s design, which is partly why he’s become football’s best anticipation thrower. Sure, it helps that he can trust big athletic receivers like Mike and Tyrell Williams, Antonio Gates and especially Keenan Allen. But it helps more that Rivers throws with pinpoint accuracy—particularly downfield, both inside and outside. This season Rivers ranks third in passer rating and fourth in yards per attempt. If the Chargers make a Super Bowl run, Rivers’s reputation will jump more levels than any player’s in history. The “can’t win in the playoffs” narrative will vanish, and fans will suddenly notice that Rivers is already top 10 in many major passing categories, and that he could finish his career top 3 in most of them. This, of course, is all assuming that he continues building on what’s so far been the most impressive season of his quietly illustrious career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenos Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 19 hours ago, game3525 said: Ekeler has a stinger, so I doubt he plays on Thursday. Here's hoping that Melvin is ready to go on Thursday night then. And even if his role is limited, it'll still be better than just relying on JJ and Newsome alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DingoLadd Posted December 12, 2018 Author Share Posted December 12, 2018 Hoping Gordon suits up but if he isn't healthy don't rush him back, just role with JJ and let the WRs pick up the slack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappaz Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 So yeah... that happened... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingoLadd Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 FINALLY. We're still gonna lose the divison I know this team too well. But this was a nice win, without two of our most crucial offensive players as well who will probably return next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappaz Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 Side note... Badgley's extra points were money. Hopefully we've found our place kicker now. I didn't have that normal fear when he got to kick like I had the past 2 years or more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenos Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Some additional good news after last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenos Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 4 hours ago, Zappaz said: Side note... Badgley's extra points were money. Hopefully we've found our place kicker now. I didn't have that normal fear when he got to kick like I had the past 2 years or more. I believed after the Steelers game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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