The Chargers Season Hits A Speedbump
Sorry Chargers fans, that sucks. At least you might see Antonio Gates do a swan song? After, you know, you left him go? That won’t be awkward.
Hunter Henry was poised to become one of the top TE’s in the game pretty soon so seeing his season go up in flames so early is balls. Best of luck to the man.
The AFC West is gonna be a shitshow this year. I think they are primed for the annual “Division that is so bad people briefly consider changing how the playoffs work” division. The Broncos are bleh and sucked last year, and there’s no guarantees Case Keenum is any good without the Vikings he had around him. The Chiefs kinda fell apart. The Chargers tried, then fell apart. The Raiders hung out in mediocresville and then hired an over-hyped retread from the turn of the century to cover the move to Vegas. It’s gonna be bad. One of them will be at 6 wins in week 14 and we’ll all be panicked about how this team will host a playoff game.
Oh lord, the noose emporium needs to be a recurring comic plz
I second this. This and our favorite Injured Reserve bar where everybody knows your name
Chargers Season
1. Boast about how well the team drafted, actually have a playoff team
2. Key player gets injured
3. Some random late round rookie turns out to be pretty good.
4. Potential breakout player injured mid-season
5. Fall apart early, somehow rebound
6. End up barely missing playoffs
7. Die
Ever Chargers season for like the last decade in a nutshell right here
And on occasion where they had a great season, expect them to choke due to some fluke play or some player’s stupidity.
No idea what category Kaeding falls into.
Well, thanks to Younghoe Koo, I would say missing game-winning field goals is also a key. Even back to the 2016 loss to the 1-15 Browns thanks to Josh Lambo’s missed field goal.
Now we have Roberto Aguayo, so who knows how many field goals we’ll miss. I’m counting 9.
When you think about it, they might have done Brees a huge favor by letting him go. They would have find a way to waste his career somehow. While the Saints had wasted many of his best years, at least they won in 2009 so his career wasn’t wasted. The guy’s basically a present day Dan Fouts with a ring.
You forgot about the part where both the first and second string offensive lineman explode.
Yeah I’m waiting for Mike Pouncy to tear his bicep or something like that
Reminds me of the comic about the Chiefs back in 2015 – http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/its-not-over-till-the-fat-walrus-burps/
Though this being the Chargers I doubt it will end as well
After this season I hope that basketball player gets picked up by a good team so his career won’t get wasted even if it could be too late at this point.
Also, lol Chargers, I don’t feel sorry for them.
Did you know Antonio Gates played basketball??????
Gates traveled!
How is this any different than any other Chargers season… I feel like every season someones out or leaves. Some bros names Tyrell Williams and Dontrelle Inman (those are fake names right?) were his leading receivers in 2016, and the season before that it was Danny Woodhead (yes seriously) leading the chargers in receiving. And yet somehow every year Rivers delivers 4400-4800 yards, 30 TDS, 15 picks, and somewhere between 7 and 9 wins. Poor dude.
Rivers is the new Cutler. He has everything he needs to succeed, and on paper his numbers look great, but he almost always throws a pick or something when the game is on the line. It’s more about timing than anything else.
Yea but Cutler is no where near as talented and his teams really never had good offenses (top 10 once vs. Rivers 7). I would also argue that Rivers wins the Chargers more games than he loses for them although I could be thinking of older season (haven’t watched a whole ton of Chargers recently). Usually thats more the front office/coachings fault than anything – if you are gonna basically only have a passing game then you have to be willing to live and die by it.
Admittedly I do think that part of the issue is that is Rivers plays out of the shotgun too much (why the running game is never as good as it should be and the Chargers RBs always dissapoint in fantasy – happens with Rodgers too), but I’d argue that if there wasn’t so much pressure on him to win there’d be less mistakes.
I’d argue he’s more like Matt Ryan West Coast. Talented dude – definitely enough to win you a Superbowl, but needs more from his team than the top top QBs. To be fair, you switch him with Roethlisberger (7 top 5 defenses only two ever worst than top 12; a good general manager;Antonio Brown and Bell) or Eli (decent weapons and franchise), and I’d argue he’d do better than either (except when Eli is playoff Eli).
Someone in the West will crack 9 wins. I’m more worried about the AFC South. The jags (like their J’ville brethren in the Sharks) are due for a regression.
I’m starting to think Philip Rivers is cursed. Everyone around him is always hurt but Rivers is never injuried.