Jaguars @ Chargers Game Day Thread / Post Game Meltdown (Week 3)

[Boltjolt]

Looks like Pip has improved...Storm maybe a little bit...is he good enough to start at LT? I'm not convinced yet...

He and Pip will trade sides. Norton is no LT.

[DerwinBosa]

Starting Herbert today was insanely stupid and so was not changing up the game plan

I mean, seriously...It was admirable the way he performed and gutted out. Clearly he was not feeling well in the beginning, and we could have gotten our asses kicked with Chase Daniel or Easton Stick starting.

[gzubeck]

I mean, seriously...It was admirable the way he performed and gutted out. Clearly he was not feeling well in the beginning, and we could have gotten our asses kicked with Chase Daniel or Easton Stick starting.

38-10 is a pretty good ass kicking. Why risk your starter for this. Staley's gonna lose the locker room real quick with these types of decisions.

[Boltjolt]

But Staley and TT both believe these 2 OT's are good OT's and the guys they want.

If I were TT I would send out a memo to the league that the Chargers are offering a 5th round pick for a quality OT! This becomes our depth.

However our HC and GM again believe Pip and Storm are the real deal they had to know there was a real possibility that Pip and Storm could be our starting OT's and they were fine with this. Man we are sure saving money only spending big dollars on 1 of our OT's. sigh.

Nobody is going to trade us a quality OT for a 5th. We want a quality OT we are going to have to up the ante.
Maybe settle for a decent OT. Someone just better than Norton.

[richpjr]

Reading Poppers takeaways and Norton gave up 9 pressures in 23 passing attempts. Just start Salyer - he could not possibly be worse than Norton.

[Caslon]

38-10 is a pretty good ass kicking. Why risk your starter for this. Staley's gonna lose the locker room real quick with these types of decisions.

They could have had Chase Daniels take all practice reps these last 10 days. It wouldn’t have been any worse. Instead, they trot out Herbert after having had about 2 days of field practice with the receivers. Chase would have had 10 days exclusively with the offense to prepare. Staley probably figured he had to play his superstar no matter what, on two days practice, across 10 days time.

[richpjr]

They could have had Chase Daniels take all practice reps these last 10 days. It wouldn’t have been any worse. Instead, they trot out Herbert after having had about 2 days of field practice with the receivers. Chase would have had 10 days exclusively with the offense to prepare. Staley probably figured he had to play his superstar no matter what, on two days practice, across 10 days time.

Even hurt, he gives us the best chance to win. But nobody else around him showed up and we got our asses kicked.

[Berserker76]

This was a very civilized response,
particularly since you failed to detect my sarcasm about Lombo & the 5th rated offense

My apologies, PBboy, I should avoid this forum for a few days after these kinds of games until my head is screwed on tight. Sometimes it's hard to differentiate sarcasm from real opinions around here! It's just tough to watch the talent we have around here go to waste for lack of decent coaching. This poor coaching isn't confined to Lombardi. Staley even left his franchise QB in a meaningless game because Herbert told him he wanted to keep playing. WTF??? Guys, I know it's only the third game but this team is imploding, and I fear that Staley doesn't have the backbone to get this team back on track. Of course, I will be giddy if proven wrong.

[gzubeck]

Even hurt, he gives us the best chance to win. But nobody else around him showed up and we got our asses kicked.

Just got done watching the lowlights. Looks to me that Herbert was drugged the first half of the game and was off a bit which led to a couple of turnovers. Add in the lackluster defense and the better offensive blocking of the Jags and we looked mediocre out there. Very flat footed and low enthusiasm.

[Berserker76]

It also seemed very odd that we didn't see Kelley until garbage time.

[SDBORN]

It also seemed very odd that we didn't see Kelley until garbage time.

Have never and will never understand using a back like Ek as the #1 workhorse on running plays. There are better ways to use Ek.

[Formula 21]

Have never and will never understand using a back like Ek as the #1 workhorse on running plays. There are better ways to use Ek.

Square peg, meet Lombo’s round hole.