2022 Official Bolts Draft Superthread

[SBbound]

Mind you he accomplished it all with above average QB play

I blame Rivers. And Herbert for his crappy rookie season. Taylor won 100% of his games, Telesco never should let him walk.

[Boltjolt]

The more I look at that chart, the sadder I get. 68 losses and a losing record. No other GM gets that leniency from their owners.

I agree he has had plenty of time but will point out that the Rams GM has been there longer than Telesco (1 season longer) and he had pretty bad record till 2017 and Snead is only 5 games over .500 right now.
The last 5 seasons the Rams are 40 games over .500 which put him where he is today at those 5 games over .500.

It can turn around for us but I also wouldn't care if Telesco got fired but apparently it isn't going to happen this off-season.
So one more season and no playoffs should do him in but I sure as hell hope we make the playoffs next season and make a run.

Tampa Bay's GM has a shit record too (1 season less than TT)but they won a SB last year.

[QSmokey]

The only punter in history that was a first round pick is Ray Guy. The same team that is the only team to draft a kicker in the first round.

Is it impossible to happen again? No but it is unlikely.

Possibly a team that is on the cusp of a SB caliber team can afford to use a first or second on a punter but that isn't us.

Not the only. Charlie Gogolak was drafted in the 1st round - with the #6 pick, no less - of the 1966 Draft by the then Washington Redskins.

[Blue Thunder]

Kicker/Punter Russell Erxleben was also drafted in the first round (11th overall) in 1979 by the Saints. But, yeah, there's no way that would happen again nowadays. At least imo.

[sonorajim]

The only punter in history that was a first round pick is Ray Guy. The same team that is the only team to draft a kicker in the first round.

Is it impossible to happen again? No but it is unlikely.

Possibly a team that is on the cusp of a SB caliber team can afford to use a first or second on a punter but that isn't us.

We were not in 2021. We can not absolutely say that about the coming season.
We need to upgrade RT, DL, ILB, CB play. Some of these players may already be Chargers. Punter is not.
The Aztec's MVP can flip the field with adequate blocking & coverage. That can result in W's in otherwise close games.
We do need a quality punter. When the best in college history is available, he should be in consideration.

[jamrock]

We were not in 2021. We can not absolutely say that about the coming season.
We need to upgrade RT, DL, ILB, CB play. Some of these players may already be Chargers. Punter is not.
The Aztec's MVP can flip the field with adequate blocking & coverage. That can result in W's in otherwise close games.
We do need a quality punter. When the best in college history is available, he should be in consideration.

We don’t like to punt so this isn’t a position of need

[Parcells]

We don’t like to punt so this isn’t a position of need

He’s got a point there.

[Parcells]

Not in round 1 or 2. Not imo anyways. Round 4 sure. When is the last time a punter or kicker went that early?

Mike Nugent went in the second round in 2005.

[Maniaque 6]

Nate Keading 3rd round 2004
What a draft for the Chargers that year !

[Boltjolt]

That's 2 kickers. No punters. Keading 3rd round. I meant 1st or 2nd.

[Fouts2herbert]

Back to the draft.


Echoing Beach's thoughts on P Matt Araiza. Folks starting talking about Araiza in the 3rd Round in November. I reluctantly agree. So, let's trade back in the first and pick up and extra 3rd and draft P Matt Araiza in the 3rd.

So the Chargers take DE Cameron Thomas (#99, 6-5, 270) and P Matt Araiza, TWO Aztecs in the 3rd Round. (And I've no SDSU connection.)

Matt’s last name gets butchered even worse than Tristan’s. I don’t know anything about him but I wonder if he played soccer as a kid and had to shift to another sport when soccer didn't work out. So kicking field goals and punting is his fallback? Just like Tristan he has a Spanish name that you don’t hear very often, neither is a common name like lopez or gonzalez etc...

Folks are pronouncing his name “A-raise-A” but his name is pronounced “A-Ra-EEE-saw” that spanish “i” is pronounced like an e and has the accented emphasis

[ghost]

Not the only. Charlie Gogolak was drafted in the 1st round - with the #6 pick, no less - of the 1966 Draft by the then Washington Redskins.

Playing with one arm didn't slow down Abilene High's Ellis Jones on the football field. The Tulsa Terror played
against Georgia Tech in the 1944 Sugar Bowl. He later played for the Boston Yanks.