Game Day – Bolts at Raiders

The Chargers go up to the not-so friendly confines of Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum (aka McAfee Coliseum) to visit the Raiders, their AFC West rivals.  The Chargers and Raiders have known each other well over the years and pine for for California bragging rights – especially as division rivals.  Both trail the AFC West leading Broncos [...]

99%

What a game Monday night! As a huge Chargers fan living on the east coast – just north of Baltimore, MD – it is a little hard for me to get to watch many Chargers games. Nevertheless, Monday night’s game was a great one… almost. The offense was remarkable – Rivers was on track, three [...]

Livin in Raven’s Country

Big shout out to Ed Reed, he’s definitely the man out here in B-more.  Reed recorded his 35th INT of his Raven’s career returning it for a big defensive TD.  For more on Ed Reed’s accomplishment, and an Ed Reed Tribute, see my man Lee Tilman’s Ravens blog at www.ravens365.com and vote for Joe Flacco [...]

Game Day Preview – Chargers vs. Jets

The chargers go into week3 with a Monday night game at the Q and the revitalized (or lack-there-of) Favre lead J-E-T-S team.  Many people are saying this is a must-win game for the Bolts… well I say… damn right it is!  They’re not in a whole lot of trouble, but only a few teams have [...]

Hercules of a Call

Ok, so by now we all know the reliable and consistent Ed Hercules… er, I mean Hochuli, made a huge error – he is human… but it did cost the Chargers the game, almost.   Yes EH (Ed Hochuli) blew the whistle when he shouldn’t have.  Yes EH looked at the replay, but couldn’t over [...]

Merriman out for ‘08

Shawne Merriman gave it his best shot against the Carolina Panthers this past Sunday, but after the game felt that it didn’t feel right. “Shawne informed me he did not feel right (on the field) and thought it best to shut it down,” said Chargers General Manager A.J. Smith.  “The road to winning the AFC [...]

Good Outing – Bad Outcome

So week one has passed – the Chargers looked pretty good – not quite mid-season form… LT didn’t score, but had nearly 100 yards rushing – 97yds on 21 carries, 4.6 average and three receptions for 15 yards.  Phillip Rivers looked awesome, 217 yards passing, 3TD, 0INT – that’s the kind of performance that should [...]

Full Week Wrap-up

Wow, what a week in the Chargers camp!  Andrew Pinnock was released due to his slow rehab of offseason surgery.  Beating out Pinnock for the starting fullback position is undrafted rookie Mike Tolbert – who practiced with the first-team offense due to Pinnock starting training camp on the PUP list.  Tolbert is expected to start [...]

First Timers

Well everyone… here it is, the first of hopefully many Chargers blogs.  Sorry it’s taken this long; I’m kinda new at this. Anyway, let’s start off the 1st official blog with some interesting news… Merriman to play! Not sure how I feel about that news… a little mixed – I suppose good for the D [...]