[Knucklehead]

30 Ints (2 for tds) and 19 forced fumbles (18 recovered 3 for tds) to be exact.
Oh yea the special teams has been awesome as well. They are 3rd in the league in kick returns (1st of playoff teams) too.

[RubberMallet]

If you look at their games against teams in the playoffs, they allowed an average of 26.2 points a game, and they only played five teams with a winning record, while allowing an average of 15.5 points against 11 non-playoff teams. This only further proves the point of how SD padded their defensive numbers against bad or mediocre team.

Is the Chargers D good? Yes. Is it as great as some of you are hyping it up to be? Stats don't say so once you take into account strength of schedule...

its amazing your lack of math skills...those 5 playoff teams scored 23.4 ppg on them. those other 11 teams? its actually only 13.2 ppg. i'm not sure you really know how to look at box scores or what....

that being said, that actually shows they are a great defense being that most of those teams are putting up 27-36 pts a game (they held tenn to 14 pts, 4 pts below their average)

look i don't think they'll make it past the pats...san diego is one of the better defenses in the nfl....but the pats offense is better...

they have an easy road past tennessee and a dinged up indianapolis. if they make it past indy, they don't make it past the pats...

[LUconn]

Also, you can't account for the amount of steroids Merriman has consumed. That is the x factor this defense can bring to the table.

[RubberMallet]

Also, you can't account for the amount of steroids Merriman has consumed. That is the x factor this defense can bring to the table.

or the rest of the defense for that matter

[Knucklehead]

Also, you can't account for the amount of steroids Merriman has consumed. That is the x factor this defense can bring to the table.

And of course he's the only NFL player who's ever done it!

[bigsmooth]

let the chugger believe in his dream!

[LUconn]

Also, you can't account for the amount of steroids Merriman has consumed. That is the x factor this defense can bring to the table.

And of course he's the only NFL player who's ever done it!

Ha! You sound like the pat fans after the camera spy fiasco. But you're right, Rodney Harrison is also a culprit.

[Knucklehead]

let the chugger believe in his dream!

Thanks!

[Knucklehead]

Step 1 complete! Next Bring on the Colts!
For all you Rivers haters, LT got shut down and Gates went out hurt, and WHO cam up BIG? MR. Rivers, that's who.

[RubberMallet]

i agree....rivers played well...that pick should of not happened....

and as usual....their defense dominated...

[ToTheLeft]

New England will not reach the Super Bowl they have been found out and if they face a real team in the playoffs they will lose. Since Philly New England has dominated only the Steelers and the Dlphins. As the Pats have shown against the Jets they are not a winter team and it seems every team is able to keep up with them. The Jets, Ravens, and Eagles are sub par teams who found out how to play New England and if they had playoff caliber teams/coaching New England wuld have bit it. Jacksonville IS a winter team and is 7-1 in their last 8 with starters in the loss being by 3 points to the Colts. IMayBeDumb but Jacksonville will win this week

[ToTheLeft]

^^ That was Sch14teen, using my laptop.

[bigsmooth]

sch14teen...please report for a drug test immed.

[Knucklehead]

New England will not reach the Super Bowl they have been found out and if they face a real team in the playoffs they will lose. Since Philly New England has dominated only the Steelers and the Dlphins. As the Pats have shown against the Jets they are not a winter team and it seems every team is able to keep up with them. The Jets, Ravens, and Eagles are sub par teams who found out how to play New England and if they had playoff caliber teams/coaching New England wuld have bit it. Jacksonville IS a winter team and is 7-1 in their last 8 with starters in the loss being by 3 points to the Colts. IMayBeDumb but Jacksonville will win this week

You are in the wrong thread. This is the one Where you say the CHARGERS are going to win!!!

[Knucklehead]

I am waiting for the Phillip haters to come forward and congratulate the best QB of the weekend!

[flamesbball84]

jacksonville wont win if they cant run the ball and if they only show up for 40 minutes of the game like they did against the steelers. sure they didnt run the ball and still won against the steelers, but the steelers are a subpar team right now. the jags will have to run the ball much better to keep the Pats offense off the field, and if you look at the Pats season thus far, they have only allowed three 100 yard rushers (Joseph Addai, Willis McGahee, and Willie Parker) and allow less than 100 rushing yards a game. New England run defense allowed just 7 rushing TDs all year, second in the NFL only to Green Bay and Pittsburgh who both allowed 6 TDs. And whats the strength of the jaguars offense? Running the ball.

Sure, the pass D hasnt been great since the Philly game, but the Giants are a good team that cacn beat Dalls this weekend and they have a QB who can be pretty good at times in Eli Manning (look waht he did against the Tampa D at tampa, a defense that allowed the fewest passing ayrds in the NFL this year, and at Dallas at the beginning of the year) and AJ Feeley has proven to be more than capable of running the show when with Philly when McNabb goes down. The Ravens game was just a bad game for the Pats though.

Also, we all know that the Pats under BB generally play at a much higher level in teh playoffs than they do in the regular season.

PS: the Jags are starting a ROOKIE FREE SAFETY, have two starting defensive lineman injured, and their best linebacker is also injured.

[Knucklehead]

CHARGERS thread. Go make a Jags one!

[bigsmooth]

best QB of the weekend?? rivers played good for a half. congrats you played a titans team with close to zero bullets in the chamber and they played you pretty darn good for a half. you should have beaten them more by your accounts of greatness knuckle. i will be glad when the chargers lose next week so this nonsense will stop. i have no problem with being a fan and roting your team on, but this stuff is hialarious!!! yeah i know the definition of fanatic too! oh yeah nice sideline dance norv and the wild-card champion t-shirts were great too...act like ya been there...oh yeah they haven't

[thepostman]

hey man, don't discourage it...its been so very entertaining!!

[Knucklehead]

OOPS! Sorry I was Wrong. Ben was better this weekend, OH wait he want home.
Rank Player Team Pos Comp Att Pct Att/G Yds Avg Yds/G TD Int 1st 1st% Lng 20+ 40+ Sck Rate
1 Ben Roethlisberger PIT QB 29 42 69.0 42.0 337 8.0 337.0 2 3 17 40.5 37T 3 0 6 79.2
2 Philip Rivers SD QB 19 30 63.3 30.0 292 9.7 292.0 1 1 11 36.7 39 6 0 1 92.6
3 Todd Collins WAS QB 29 50 58.0 50.0 266 5.3 266.0 2 2 16 32.0 30T 1 0 3 69.2
4 Matt Hasselbeck SEA QB 20 32 62.5 32.0 229 7.2 229.0 1 2 11 34.4 35 3 0 1 68.4
5 Jeff Garcia TB QB 23 39 59.0 39.0 207 5.3 207.0 1 2 11 28.2 26 1 0 1 60.5
6 Eli Manning NYG QB 20 27 74.1 27.0 185 6.9 185.0 2 0 12 44.4 21 1 0 1 117.1
7 David Garrard JAC QB 9 21 42.9 21.0 140 6.7 140.0 1 2 5 23.8 43T 2 1 4 41.9
8 Vince Young TEN QB 16 29 55.2 29.0 138 4.8 138.0 0 1 9 31.0 26 1 0 3 53.5

I thought this was a place to talk about our teams or things we enjoy. Sorry! I'll keep it to a low roar.

I guess the Killjoys are going to kill yet another of my exuberant comments.

[bigsmooth]

don't get me wrong..i love the entertainment value!!....cuz that's all it is!!!

[Knucklehead]

don't get me wrong..i love the entertainment value!!....cuz that's all it is!!!

Mom the terrable UVA fan is attacking me. Help! I guess he is so used to his team winning all the time, and wants to pick on the up-and-comers.

Keep Laughing. I'm good with it. I planned on being a little more muted this week, because I think it will be a major uphill climb to beat the Colts, but now the gloves are OFF!

[ToTheLeft]

(look waht he did against the Tampa D at tampa, a defense that allowed the fewest passing ayrds in the NFL this year, and at Dallas at the beginning of the year)

Yeah, look what he did, not even getting 200 Yards, and his offense only produced NEGATIVE TWO YARDS in the first quarter.

He didn't make a big mistake, that's the only "good" thing he did.

[thepostman]

but Eli of last year would've made a mistake, I think that is the point

[bigsmooth]

you took your gloves and your clothes off and jumped in head first already. i did chuckle with the UVA reference though.