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  • glutton4Bolts
    glutton for punishment
    • Jan 2019
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    #13
    Originally posted by like54ninjas View Post
    Thanks for posting this. Good discussion all around... aside from Peter's comment that half the Sunday Night Game Fans against the Ravens traveled there all the way from Baltimore... that is a total fallacy. Even if half the fans were for the Ravens... there is no way even close to the majority of them flew out for the game.

    In the end, the lack of a home field advantage is always going to be a problem and it will get worse in the new stadium. It could be considered an advantage of sorts... the whole "us against the world" mentality. But is has to wear on the players.

    Everyone seems to be making a big deal about the playoff loss to the Patriots... but I totally expected it. Maybe not such a slaughter... but we had lost almost our entire LB corp, traveled a ton of miles, played a tough game the week earlier against the birds... while the best coach in the world got an extra week to prepare and some of the best players in the league got an extra week of rest and prep. We win that tie-breaker, get the bye and host the Patriots w/o them ever seeing that dime D... we would have had a great chance to advance. Just look at the numbers.... the VAST majority of the teams in the Championship Games over the last decade had 1st round byes. It is too big of an advantage IMO... but since it is there... I think you have to shoot for it for a legit shot at a ring.

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    • richpjr
      Registered Charger Fan
      • Jun 2013
      • 21035
      • Nashville
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      #14
      Originally posted by glutton4Bolts View Post

      Thanks for posting this. Good discussion all around... aside from Peter's comment that half the Sunday Night Game Fans against the Ravens traveled there all the way from Baltimore... that is a total fallacy. Even if half the fans were for the Ravens... there is no way even close to the majority of them flew out for the game.

      In the end, the lack of a home field advantage is always going to be a problem and it will get worse in the new stadium. It could be considered an advantage of sorts... the whole "us against the world" mentality. But is has to wear on the players.

      Everyone seems to be making a big deal about the playoff loss to the Patriots... but I totally expected it. Maybe not such a slaughter... but we had lost almost our entire LB corp, traveled a ton of miles, played a tough game the week earlier against the birds... while the best coach in the world got an extra week to prepare and some of the best players in the league got an extra week of rest and prep. We win that tie-breaker, get the bye and host the Patriots w/o them ever seeing that dime D... we would have had a great chance to advance. Just look at the numbers.... the VAST majority of the teams in the Championship Games over the last decade had 1st round byes. It is too big of an advantage IMO... but since it is there... I think you have to shoot for it for a legit shot at a ring.
      The tie-breaker loss and extra, very physical game we played, doomed us. Winning a Super Bowl would help give us more of a home field advantage, but the reality is that there are maybe a half a dozen or so fields with true home field advantage and the rest are fickle fans. Jerry Jones was grumbling about the number of other team's fans taking over the stadium in Dallas and they are "America's Team".

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      • like54ninjas
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        • Oct 2017
        • 8211
        • Great White North
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        #15
        PFT 2019 Charger outlook....

        My 2021 Adopt-A-Bolt List

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