Chargers @ Raiders Game Day Thread | Post Game Reaction (Wk 13)

[jaguarmanftype]

... Sad!

I miss Trumpy.

[ghost]

finally the injuries catch up with Chargers and they run out of magic.

Take away the same starting postions and injure others and no team, NO TEAM is winning more than they lose.


You wanna blame the coaches for having 6-6 record with guys you never even heard of at start of training camp now starting NFL games? I refuse

This take is ignoring the situation with injuries was the same six years ago, since Spanos ascended to an unaccountable position of power within the front office.

[wu-dai clan]

How's @darealmike_dub 's ankle ?
Pipkin's knee ?
Linsley's concussion ?
Key questions.

[jamrock]

This take is ignoring the situation with injuries was the same six years ago, since Spanos ascended to an unaccountable position of power within the front office.

It’s been the same every year except somehow not last year when we still didn’t make the playoffs.

[Boltgang74]

Quite frankly, we're a .500 team even with no injuries. Staley's defense would still be scheme over player (and even without injuries on the frontline and in the secondary, the scheme wasn't particularly effective), and the offense would still be impotent for 2 quarters a game under Lombardi.

POTD.Ugly but true.Gimmie ugly truth everytime.

[jamrock]

How's @darealmike_dub 's ankle ?
Pipkin's knee ?
Linsley's concussion ?
Key questions.

Bosa’s groin, Parham’s head.

Bosa and Keenan kind of fucked our season

[jamrock]

POTD.Ugly but true.Gimmie ugly truth everytime.

Ouch. Jaguarmanftype laying it out there

[richpjr]

POTD.Ugly but true.Gimmie ugly truth everytime.

No, it's just hyperbole. Plenty of reasons to critique many parts of this team, from the owners down to the players, but to claim we'd be a .500 team with no injuries is just...dumb.

[jamrock]

Not going to win with 4 backup OL. Three of them stink. Salyer has been very good but his last two games haven't been his best. Made Chandler Jones look 25 again.

Well, all I heard before the game was how bad the raider defense was and all we had to worry about was Maxx Crosby. So that shitty Raider defense held us to 13. That wasn’t the steel curtain we played but they played their asses off and we played like we deserved to win just by teeing the ball up.

where was Derwin? Where was Mack? Ek with the critical fumble. Herbert with shitty pocket awareness. Keenan disappearing act. Load of shit served up on a Sunday. Don’t be fooled by the final score. They beat our ass and could have run it up more but just wanted to milk the clock.

[jamrock]

No, it's just hyperbole. Plenty of reasons to critique many parts of this team, from the owners down to the players, but to claim we'd be a .500 team with no injuries is just...dumb.

We’ll never know with this roster of cupcakes

[wu-dai clan]

Quite frankly, we're a .500 team even with no injuries. Staley's defense would still be scheme over player (and even without injuries on the frontline and in the secondary, the scheme wasn't particularly effective), and the offense would still be impotent for 2 quarters a game under Lombardi.

Staley's defense would have inevitably improved over the season, minus injuries.

Lombardi's offense would have produced good numbers, as last year, minus injuries.

[jaguarmanftype]

No, it's just hyperbole. Plenty of reasons to critique many parts of this team, from the owners down to the players, but to claim we'd be a .500 team with no injuries is just...dumb.

I would agree it would be hyperbole if at any point when this team has been healthy I saw an Ejiro Evero-led Broncos defensive performance or a consistent offensive performance rivaling the Bills or the Chiefs, but what I see is a bottom-feeding defense in most categories for the past 2 years statistically and an inept offense in large stretches of a game no matter who has been on the field more often than not. I don't know about you, but that doesn't scream like a winning formula to me. I certainly don't know many teams who have had much success being bottom 5 in defense and average in offense. Aside from the 2016 Falcons, I can't remember any teams that have had success being lopsided heavily in one category over the other (offense vs. defense).