Very winnable game, in all the games san diego has played, all the victories were on bad teams and the only defeat was against a new england patriots that were extremely lucky as philipp rivers threw 2 interceptions inside the redzone
The chargers actually played 5 of those teams last year. You forgot Tennessee. That being said, the chargers secondary has been good for awhile now. Cason is inconsistent, jammer is solid, weddle is solid, gregory is better against the pass than the run. bob sanders is lost for the year. Our pass D was definitely inflated. I cant argue that, i dont believe the chargers are legitimately the #1 pass defense over the last 21 games, statistically they are but you take it with a grain of salt. Sanchez wont be on his back much. I sense that this is the game greene starts running better. The chargers arent great against the run thus far. We basically have 1 good pass rusher, shaun phillips and one good specialist who only plays on obvious 3rd and long passing downs in Antwan Barnes. Scifres is actually a great punter. The only issue he has had was last year he had 5 punts blocked over a 6 game period. So he hasnt been angling his punts like he had and has just been booming them just to get them off. Novak kicked 4 FGs against denver including a 51 yarder and a clutch kick to make the score 29-24 to ensure denver needed a TD instead of a fg to win the game on their final drive. That came in handy as tebow quickly got denver in fg range. The chargers run game is much improved but the key is play action and then check downs to tolbert or mathews. Those plays have killed opposing teams and is a main reason why the chargers lead the league in time of possession. 100% agree on revis only having to cover VJ on sunday as opposed to the playoff game. Especially with gates unable to move and no sproles to account for. Good luck on sunday.
The chargers have beaten a... (1-4)Vikings (2-3)Chiefs (0-5)Dolphins (1-4)Broncos The Jets havent beaten any impressive team either, but we have blown out the Dolphins and Jaguars. The Chargers biggest win was a 10 points win over the Dolphins. This game will definately be close and I cant believe Chargers fans are predicting a blowout. Their team cant blowout the shit teams, yet they will blowout us? RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT
I don't think any realistic charger fans are predicting a blowout. Tough game against a tough team that's been to the afccg 2 times in a row on the road and a 1pm 10am local time game. A team that beat the chargers at home in 2009 after they had won 11 straight games? The chargers lost to Seattle, st Louis, kc, Oakland, and cincy on the road last year. Should be a tough battle
I'd say this is a 4 point game either way. could come down to our special teams making a big play or two. I'll say this much ... if we come out with a win I'd bet my life on a 10 win season. no way we go any worse than 6-3 in our last 9 games ... Bills twice, Dolphins, Redskins, Chiefs, Broncos ... we have better personel than every one of those teams. I expect us to pile up plenty of Nov-Dec wins.
I went to the chargers board and alot of the predictions were victories with 20+ point blowouts and even 30+ points. This game will be within 10 points and low scoring IMO.
Every other teams message board is like that I never understood it. The people on TGG may say some crazy shit here and there but they never unilaterally predict 30 point wins over good teams. IDK if it's frontrunner fans or stupid fanbases but it's kind of funny. Then when their team loses they rattle off lists of excuses. That and the famous, how are you gonna stop: names the whole roster
I haven't kept up with the chargers, so that's good to know. This is one of those games that if the home team can play cleanly and not make retard mistakes, they'll pull out with a win. The Jets, under Rex, do shitty after a bye. So it makes this game that much more important. Go into the bye with a winning record, pray they go 5-3 after it, and they'll be back in the race.
haha, no. The chargers message board has an inside joke that all games will end in a score of 51-0 or a number that adds up to 51. Its some superstitious deal. I saw a lot of close scores on the prediction thread, but of course, its the charger message board so they are all picking the chargers.
Not sure if you saw this place back in January '10, but the main argument from visiting Chargers fans was that your receivers were simply too tall for the Jets to cover. You'll have to forgive us when we assume most of you guys are idiots, since that's mostly what we have to go by.
I have a good feeling about this game unlike vs. the Patriots. Revis isn't going to totally shutdown VJ but if Gates isn't 100 percent we should be looking good. Ryan will figure out how to slow down Matthews and Greene is ready for a pillaging like he did in 2009. 23 Carries 128 yards and a TD LETS GO JETS!
Really need the D line to clog gaps and stop the run without sacrificing secondary. But I'm more concerned with the offense vs their D. I can see a hard fought W here if the offense comes to play.
To be fair those tall receivers (vj, Floyd and gates) had 18 catches for 234 yards. Obviously what charger fans didn't see coming were the inordinate amount of unforced errors made (starting with the snap over rivers head on the opening drive)
clearly a lot of the posters in this thread havent seen the chargers play this year like crimetime31 said, gates has been a shell of his former self while dealing with his foot injury ... i saw pat chung guard him with little help for an entire game with great success. when gates is healthy he would torch that dude ... chung needs help against keller their running game is much improved, so thats def a concern. and they are a pretty good screen team too ... mathews has the kind of speed where he can get to the edge, which is by far the weakest aspect of our run D, and he has good vision and can cut back off of those plays, as well but their offense has become heavily reliant on v jax, which is why i like our chances ... hopefully brandon marshall catching 4 passes on revis inspires rivers to test hell relle
It really is going to come down to whether the Jets can stop Ryan Mathews or not. There's very little else that is all that important in the matchup between the two teams. You don't beat the Jets by trying to pass on them. You beat them by controlling the flow of the game and breaking a few long gainers in the process. You put them in bend-but-don't break mode and then you break one. If the Chargers had a pressure defense then the Jets offense would be on the spot, but they don't and so we can pencil the Jets in for 24-28 points. The question is whether or not the Jets defense can get off the field or not. If so then the Jets win a 24-21 type game. If not they lose a 31-28 type game.
[QUOTE the combined record of the teams they've beaten is 4-17 with an average margin of victory of 6 points[/QUOTE] The combined recod for the teams we have beated is 3-13; I would think that they are saying the same thing on SD boards!
