Bosa Deal Done

[Millionaire Wussy]

If Barksdale was the most dominant RT in the league like Gronk is at his position i wouldn't care what he does. Because i wouldn't be questioning if he works at his game or just clowns around most of the time. Because its not like hes very good. And nobody wanted him when we signed him. So whats his deal? Is it possible he has poor work habits and is immature and maybe even a distraction? Why is he mediocre?

I just want to see mediocre players working at getting better. Not joking around all the time. Im not saying hes the reason why we were 4-12. But i have questioned this teams work ethic. And taking practices off to go bowling and go have fun. Starting training camp later than most teams. I just think the overall attitude of this team is sort of laid back and not taken as seriously as it should be. Soft is what we have been labeled by others around the league.

Ive seen Barksdale do it in quite a few interviews. Like at least 8. So hes clearly the class clown. When you're not that good...acting like a clown might suggest its one of the reasons you're just average. I just want to see our players mature. Take winning seriously. Because last year was a circus. I just hope hes not a clown during practice. Id love our OTs to be all business and show toughness. This act just make him look like a kid playing a mans game.

Thats my last rant on Barksdale. Im just pissed because i like to watch our players give interviews. And he ruins most of them.

Damn FLEET, why don't you tell Feeva that (twitter). Looks like your chummy with him. Maybe he can tell Barks to settle down for you.

[Millionaire Wussy]

And just so you know FLEET. I think Mel Gordon is a fantastic young man. Things just didn't come together right away for him last year. But with more confidence the sky could be the limit. As long as the knee holds strong at least.

[richpjr]

Fleet, you want me to speak with Mikey and have him tone it down a bit?

[Fleet]

Im actually going to contact the Chargers PR dept. And tell them that Barksdale is ruining interviews. And that hes acting like an attention whore. Fans are pissed.

[6025]

Chargers don't need Bosa to beat Chiefs
Injuries are a bigger problem for Chiefs than Chargers, while contractual impasse may have cost San Diego services of its top draft pick in season opener

Of course the Chargers can beat the Chiefs without Joey Bosa, who sat out practice Monday.

Other than among cave-dwellers who pegged Bosa for the Defensive Rookie of the Year award, there was scant cause for alarm Monday even as the 21-year-old end, nursing a leg injury just one summer practice into his NFL career, limped by reporters en route to the training room.

NFL teams don't count on rookies to make big plays in September, even rookies who went higher in the draft than any other non-quarterback.

Don't forget that by the time the brain-numbing contractual standoff finally ended between Team Spanos and Team Bosa, Chargers sophomore Darius Philon had locked up Bosa's starting gig for the season opener. Philon is serviceable, even better than serviceable at times. He, not Bosa, has a year in the team's system.

So, the Chargers have as much of a chance of beating the Chiefs as they did before Bosa sat out practice Monday.

As for the full opportunity cost of the migraine-inducing, logic-defying Spanos-Bosa stalemate that sacrificed all of the top draftee's training camp and the preseason, it won't be known for awhile.

Along the way, we'll check on it.

The reckoning's tally will deserve the headlines it gets because somehow only in our corner of the NFL universe do first-round draftees still go unsigned until late August.

For now, it pays to keep an eye on the oblong ball. And here, Bolts fans, is a cheery truth:

The Chargers actually are in better health than the Chiefs.

Of late -- and things could change by the time the cyberspace ink sets on this sentence -- the football injury gods have smiled on the Bolts like few other NFL teams.

When the Chargers lined up for practice Monday, lo and behold, all 22 starters were outfitted for full contact.

Injuries to the Chiefs, meantime, have stripped Kansas City's defense of at least two entrenched starters: Outside linebacker Justin Houston, who causes Bolts blockers to wake up in a cold sweat; and inside linebacker Josh Mauga, a playmaker in four consecutive Chiefs victories over the Bolts.

Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium, the Chargers should be able to move the ball.

Coach Mike McCoy, despite getting no favors from either team negotiators or his top draft pick, just might be clutching a victory football on the flight home.

In spite of the cortex-shrinking staredown between Team Spanos and Team Bosa, the likes of Antonio Gates and Philip Rivers and Brandon Mebane are apt to say: We've got this.

In the meantime, there will be pointed questions.

Did Bosa sustain a physical setback in recent weeks before the deal got done? He managed to get through just one practice, the non-padded session Tuesday that came two days after he reported to Chargers Park.

He looked trim and firm, having made his target weight of 275 pounds. In the few drills open to the media, he showed no limitations in mobility. He stumbled once while hot-footing it laterally between padded obstacles but, overall, exhibited adequate quickness and balance. He appeared a bit rusty and sucked air, as expected.

A day after Bosa's first practice since June, there was a photo shoot Wednesday at Miramar Air Station. Then came an exhibition game Thursday that Bosa sat out and three open dates during which players may have worked out and studied.

When the Chargers took the field Monday, Bosa was absent.

Every padded practice is precious, especially for an NFL rookie whose most recent, full-padded team workout was nine months ago with Ohio State.

Only 13 padded practices remain. Could be only 12, at most, for Bosa, as McCoy said he might stage another full workout Wednesday.

Bosa, coming off his longest football hiatus since he was age 12, will be hard-pressed to get into football shape by October.

His availability for the home opener, 12 days from now against his home-state Jacksonville Jaguars, appears iffy.

It didn't need to be this way, of course. Team Spanos and Team Bosa lawyered up. Now, it's on the players and coaches to Bolt Up.

[Mister Hoarse]

Lawyer Up
Bolt Up
Fuck Up

[MakoShark]

SAN DIEGO (AP) It was a familiar scene at Monday's San Diego Chargers practice: Joey Bosa wasn't working.

Bosa, who missed 31 days and the preseason because of a contract dispute, didn't participate in the workout.

The Chargers began preparations for Sunday's opener against the Kansas City Chiefs without their top draft pick. Bosa, the third overall selection, watched the session with his left leg wrapped and he walked with a slight limp.

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/09/05/bosa-sits-out-chargers-practice-with-leg-injury.html

[Mister Hoarse]

Not much you can do with a limp Bosa.

[6025]

Good thing he had this much needed holdout, it's completely obvious that training camp is overrated.

[Den60]

Chargers don't need Bosa to beat Chiefs
Injuries are a bigger problem for Chiefs than Chargers, while contractual impasse may have cost San Diego services of its top draft pick in season opener

Of course the Chargers can beat the Chiefs without Joey Bosa, who sat out practice Monday.

Other than among cave-dwellers who pegged Bosa for the Defensive Rookie of the Year award, there was scant cause for alarm Monday even as the 21-year-old end, nursing a leg injury just one summer practice into his NFL career, limped by reporters en route to the training room.

NFL teams don't count on rookies to make big plays in September, even rookies who went higher in the draft than any other non-quarterback.

Don't forget that by the time the brain-numbing contractual standoff finally ended between Team Spanos and Team Bosa, Chargers sophomore Darius Philon had locked up Bosa's starting gig for the season opener. Philon is serviceable, even better than serviceable at times. He, not Bosa, has a year in the team's system.

So, the Chargers have as much of a chance of beating the Chiefs as they did before Bosa sat out practice Monday.

As for the full opportunity cost of the migraine-inducing, logic-defying Spanos-Bosa stalemate that sacrificed all of the top draftee's training camp and the preseason, it won't be known for awhile.

Along the way, we'll check on it.

The reckoning's tally will deserve the headlines it gets because somehow only in our corner of the NFL universe do first-round draftees still go unsigned until late August.

For now, it pays to keep an eye on the oblong ball. And here, Bolts fans, is a cheery truth:

The Chargers actually are in better health than the Chiefs.

Of late -- and things could change by the time the cyberspace ink sets on this sentence -- the football injury gods have smiled on the Bolts like few other NFL teams.

When the Chargers lined up for practice Monday, lo and behold, all 22 starters were outfitted for full contact.

Injuries to the Chiefs, meantime, have stripped Kansas City's defense of at least two entrenched starters: Outside linebacker Justin Houston, who causes Bolts blockers to wake up in a cold sweat; and inside linebacker Josh Mauga, a playmaker in four consecutive Chiefs victories over the Bolts.

Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium, the Chargers should be able to move the ball.

Coach Mike McCoy, despite getting no favors from either team negotiators or his top draft pick, just might be clutching a victory football on the flight home.

In spite of the cortex-shrinking staredown between Team Spanos and Team Bosa, the likes of Antonio Gates and Philip Rivers and Brandon Mebane are apt to say: We've got this.

In the meantime, there will be pointed questions.

Did Bosa sustain a physical setback in recent weeks before the deal got done? He managed to get through just one practice, the non-padded session Tuesday that came two days after he reported to Chargers Park.

He looked trim and firm, having made his target weight of 275 pounds. In the few drills open to the media, he showed no limitations in mobility. He stumbled once while hot-footing it laterally between padded obstacles but, overall, exhibited adequate quickness and balance. He appeared a bit rusty and sucked air, as expected.

A day after Bosa's first practice since June, there was a photo shoot Wednesday at Miramar Air Station. Then came an exhibition game Thursday that Bosa sat out and three open dates during which players may have worked out and studied.

When the Chargers took the field Monday, Bosa was absent.

Every padded practice is precious, especially for an NFL rookie whose most recent, full-padded team workout was nine months ago with Ohio State.

Only 13 padded practices remain. Could be only 12, at most, for Bosa, as McCoy said he might stage another full workout Wednesday.

Bosa, coming off his longest football hiatus since he was age 12, will be hard-pressed to get into football shape by October.

His availability for the home opener, 12 days from now against his home-state Jacksonville Jaguars, appears iffy.

It didn't need to be this way, of course. Team Spanos and Team Bosa lawyered up. Now, it's on the players and coaches to Bolt Up.

Good to know we are so solid as to not need the player we took as the third pick in the draft.

[Coachmarkos]

Technically, the title of the article is correct.

I'd like to think they don't need any one player to beat the Chiefs. Except Rivers.

But, it stinks for various reasons.