Chargers at Colts Game Day Thread | Post Game Reaction (Wk 16)

[Lone Bolt]

Don't agree. Derwin had the pressure on the QB to force the first INT and made the 2nd INT on a great play. Alohi has improved a lot but he isn't Derwin.

Truth...

[Charge!]

Might not a coincidence, you can’t underestimate how one guy can affect a defensive meeting room…the defense is playing the best it has under staley without it’s highest paid players too, staley deserves a LOT of credit…

MIA and Colts refused to run on the chargers...... they did not take advantage of our greatest weekness.... that is boneheaded coaching, not great defense....

and Foles played the worst of any QB we have played.... Ryan could not be worse than that.....

[wu-dai clan]

I have to say, after all these years, this is comical.

Gillman and Coryell are turning over in their grave.

But they are happy, and their legacy lives, because it's all about the Ws.

Posters will soon run out of ammo,
in "explaining" why all these victories we stack up just aren't right.

And still, nobody gets Lombardi offense...nobody.

[jaguarmanftype]

Fehoko in there kills the will to run the ball by the opposing offense.

[jaguarmanftype]

I have to say, after all these years, this is comical.

Gillman and Coryell are turning over in their grave.

But they are happy, and their legacy lives because it's all about the Ws.

Posters will soon run out of ammo,
in "explaining" why all these victories we stack up just aren't right.

And still, nobody gets Lombardi offense...nobody.

Lombo will run out of plays long before posters lambasting him run out of ammo.

[AK47]

Chargers’s D has been outstanding since they cut Jerry Tillery.

Coincidence? I think not.

Imagine you do your job plus extra (and get burn't doing so) because one of the guys up front won't do his job resulting in your defense taking more L's than W's.

Then imagine one day you do your job but notice there's minimal need to do extra and your defense wins more battles than it loses.

After a few weeks of the above.....Now imagine you've refined your job to the point of flourishing and the vision of your HC to Dominate is coming to fruition.

[cmplxgal]

Slater needs to be back by wildcard weekend.

I think this is the key to the playoffs. The current Chargers offense doesn't scare anyone, or it shouldn't. One reason there are so many short patterns by receivers is that they are staying in to help block, then releasing if they can. That leaves 2-3 receivers going into the middle or deep parts of the field against five defensive players.

[Maniaque 6]

MIA and Colts refused to run on the chargers...... they did not take advantage of our greatest weekness.... that is boneheaded coaching, not great defense....

and Foles played the worst of any QB we have played.... Ryan could not be worse than that.....

Refused to run ? They coudn't !

[cmplxgal]

D. James is lest needed in that defense than J. Bosa.

I can't believe the abuse Derwin is taking in this thread. He's only the Chargers' best defensive player, despite the overexcited bonehead plays tonight.

[Boltdiehard]

Herbert hit some big plays the first was called back on hold by Pipkins on that ball to Parham and had that stood Justin was about to get it rolling IMO. The second was the pass to Allen on the flea flicker and that was gas that almost knocked Keenan down and he barely stepped out otherwise that was a big one.

Gotta scrap the hurry up on third and short it never works. Take your time you have weapons call the right play.

[21&500]

Don't agree. Derwin had the pressure on the QB to force the first INT and made the 2nd INT on a great play. Alohi has improved a lot but he isn't Derwin.

Derwin makes more plays, but the defense absolutely has looked better without James.
I'm willing to believe it's a coincidence, but also willing to entertain the possibility that it's not.
No reason not to at least look into it.
and even if James being out DID have a positive effect, I'm willing to bet it has more to do with how other people respond to his absence, so I'm not knocking James, I hope that's understood.
I recognize the talent and effect he has as much as the next Chargers fan who dreamed of drafting him, but sometimes the overall system improves efficiency with lesser talents.
Whole greater than sum of it's parts.
I remember Ray Lewis talking about how Trent Dilfer was "the perfect qb" for THAT Raven's team.

[21&500]

Herbert hit some big plays the first was called back on hold by Pipkins on that ball to Parham and had that stood Justin was about to get it rolling IMO. The second was the pass to Allen on the flea flicker and that was gas that almost knocked Keenan down and he barely stepped out otherwise that was a big one.

Gotta scrap the hurry up on third and short it never works. Take your time you have weapons call the right play.

Agreed. Unless it's a QB sneak and we want to deny the D substitution, just use the play clock.

Honestly, I need to look at that flea flicker, I'm not sure KA was out of bounds. Too bad we couldn't challenge that.